Garrigues Blog

JULY 26, 2023

Under this system, which has traditionally been applied in the US, the first person to invent has “priority”, even if they were not the first to file the patent application in question. Proof of the importance of this tool, is the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 21, 2024

Pre-Grant Opposition The first proposal relates to amending the pre-grant opposition mechanism, which allows patent applications to be opposed before the Patent Office officially “grants” the patent. From a policy perspective, pre-grant oppositions are excellent policy.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 3, 2023

Kurian’s trail of transparency, discussions about authors and copyright societies, updates on the international IP landscape, or the hustle and bustle of the domestic IP domain, including Statements of Patent (Non-)Working, the journey through Junes had its own jilts and joys.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The rules, if passed, are surely a strong attempt towards fighting the long-standing issue of pendency in the Indian Patent Office, but concurrently it can also led to dilution of material safeguards within the Patent Act, which are in place to ensure that applicants/ patentees stick to their end of the patent bargain.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 10, 2022

Baca focuses her practice on IP portfolio management, strategic client counseling, and patent prosecution in diverse scientific and engineering fields. from the University of Chicago in the Department of Chemistry in 2005. She received her J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2009, and her Ph.D.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

Controller Of Patents And Designs revolves around the interpretation of Section 16(1) of the Indian Patents Act. The case raises questions about the requirement of containing claims relating to multiple inventions in the parent application and its applicability to both suo moto and Controller-objection-based filings.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

In Rajeev Kumar vs Jamia Millia Islamia (12th April 2021), an extremely interesting tussle was seen with the copyright over a thesis being pitted against a person’s right to obtain information under the Right to Information Act, 2005. 12 ) or anywhere else, because granting of patents necessarily includes publication of invention.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In T 1933/12 , the Board of Appeal found that Article 87 EPC does not prevent an applicant for a first application (P1) sharing their right to priority with a joint-applicant for a subsequent European patent application (P2). The PCT application claimed priority from the US provisional US 60/571444 (P1).

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Patently-O

MARCH 7, 2023

patents assert priority to at least one prior patent application filing. In addition to the formal paperwork, the original application must sufficiently disclose the invention as claimed in the later patent. The early filing date helps avoid would-be intervening and invalidating prior art.

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IP Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2022

Article 84 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) requires that the claims of a European patent application “shall define the matter for which protection is sought” and “shall be clear and concise and be supported by the description.”[i] patent because such arguments were a “blatant admission” as to claim scope).

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Patently-O

AUGUST 4, 2021

They include such issues as whether (and how) Dr. Thaler obtained authorization from DABUS to file the patent application, and whether the patent statutes include a requirement that inventors be human. Each of these three jurisdictions found sufficient reasons in these formalities to reject DABUS’ patent applications.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Regardless of who invested how much, Janssen does have ownership over at least 5 patents, as mentioned above, and this is what we look at below. This meant that most of the countries where the company got the patent through PCT would have anyway expired by this year. As mentioned above, there are 4 more applications.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2022

This second part continues where that post left off, and brings us analysis on whether or not, for the purposes of maintaining a divisional application, there must be a plurality of inventions in the claims of the parent application. When can/not a Patent Application be Divided? Part II: Claims & Pluralities.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2023

that Gilead’s intervening prior art reference invalidated Minnesota’s patent claims. While the case is a straightforward application of written description law, it is consistent with the Federal Circuit’s broader trend towards requiring more of patent applicants to comply with Section 112’s disclosure requirements.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In her patent application, she claimed that her soup is free from preservatives and artificial additives. All of the above-mentioned instances raise a question “Are the food recipes patentable in India?” The claim of the applicant should not be the one existing in the public domain at the date of filing of an application.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2022

Inventorship in the US is a critical component of patent ownership. When applying for a patent at the USPTO, the applicant must name all inventors of the invention claimed in the patent application. In Europe, Article 123(2) EPC sets very strict requirements for amendments to patent applications.

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Patently-O

APRIL 10, 2022

The normal rule of claim construction is that claim terms should be given “the meaning that the term[s] would have to a person of ordinary skill in the art in question at the time of the invention, i.e., as of the effective filing date of the patent application.” 2005)(en banc). ” Phillips v. 3d 1303 (Fed.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 4, 2024

Other Posts Journey Through “Januarys” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present) Image from here Sit back, relax, and sift through the pages of January’s posts on SpicyIP! Read Tejaswini’s post to know more about the decision and how it fares with the MHC order on Section 3(i) in the Chinese University of Hong Kong case.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 21, 2022

A recent order by the Delhi High Court in the case of Agriboard International Llc vs Deputy Controller Of Patents brought up the very relevant issue of the requirement of the Patent office to issue “speaking orders” while rejecting a patent application. Widened Locus Standi. Cipla Ltd & Ors.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In recognition of these challenges, federal courts have long recognized that trade secrets should be entitled to an inference of use once evidence of access and similarity of the trade secrets is presented, because misappropriation can rarely be proved by direct evidence. As the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit explained in Stratienko v.

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The IPKat

JULY 17, 2023

Furthermore, in an easy to miss but critical passage, the Board also ruled out any role for the description of the patent application in claim interpretation. The issue on appeal was whether the patent lacked novelty. Nevertheless, the description and drawings shall be used to interpret the claims."

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Further, residence is typically designated at the time the patent application is filed, and inventors may have moved in the interim between inventing and their US filing. From 2005 to 2022, the average number of inventors per patent rose from 2.5 If we reach back to 1985, most US patents listed only one inventor.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Specifically, the case focused on the difference between example 9 of Rowenhorst and example 1 of EP 2 373 458 (para 146) (the Patent referred to the US patent application 12/337,001; EP 2 373 458 is derived from US ’001 and contains the same relevant disclosure as US ’001).

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The lack of clarity stems from applicants not specifying the precision or margin of error for claim terms either in the original application or during prosecution. This ambiguity could be avoided if the USPTO were to put the onus on patent applicants to identify the precision and error margin for any measurements recited in the claims.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Journey Through “Octobers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present) The October “Flashbacks” are here! Lokesh covers another super interesting round of discussions stemming from SpicyIP’s Octobers (2005-present)! India’s patent applications jump by 31.6% – WIPO IP Indicator 2023.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 30, 2023

Within Metaverse, patents must be handled in accordance with three verticals: First, patents for the Metaverse technology itself, which may be further broken down into the hardware and software technologies required to create a distinctive and customized Metaverse. because it is not possible to patent the Metaverse as a whole.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 27, 2024

Check Sadhvi Sood’s post discussing Nestle’s patent application for Fennel Flower (Kala Jeera) vis-a-vis TK. But if your interest is in the specific case studies, Arogyapacha is worth reading, as it exemplifies bringing valuable TK to the market and sharing revenues with an indigenous community. Enough Policy stuff now!

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 12, 2023

It's hard to believe that Dragons’ Den has been around since 2005. IP became the hot topic of conversation with Craig stating that a patent application had been submitted to the US but not the UK. In tonight’s episode we saw a delightful throw back of Peter Jones and his investments. Kiss the pug for luck! I did wonder why.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2021

The plaintiff’s licensor had filed a patent application on the product that had not yet been published. In the meantime, however, Liqwid had been approached by L’Oreal about a possible acquisition and disclosed its unpublished patent application to L’Oreal under an NDA. In 02 Micro Inter. Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.,

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SpicyIP

MAY 15, 2023

The petitioner is the sole registered proprietor and user of the “Maxgalin” mark, a Schedule H drug, since 2005. Madhya Pradesh High Court allows the defendant to file a patent application and directs the Patent Office to hear the plaintiff before considering the defendant’s application.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 13, 2022

While there is a growing repository of algorithmic information on the Patent Office website due to the increasing number of patent applications for computer related inventions, the applications may not always disclose key algorithms. This makes data processing opaque.

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