Patently-O

APRIL 17, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit is set to consider the use of terms like “patented,” “proprietary,” and “exclusive” in commercial advertising can be actionable under § 43(a)(1)(B) of the Lanham Act when their use is not entirely accurate. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. , ” Dawgs appealed.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 16, 2023

by Dennis Crouch Impact of Sonos on Patent Prosecution : The recent Sonos v. Google decision threatens to grind to a halt, or at least significantly restrict, a once-common patent prosecution strategy – keeping continuation applications pending for years to obtain new claims that cover marketplace developments. Sonos Inc. 6, 2023).

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Lots of the new learning in patent law over the past decade has focused on patent eligibility. 388 (2006) (injunctive relief in accordance with the principles of equity); Graham v. 321 (1971) (antitrust – patent pools – waiver of defenses); MedImmune, Inc. 100 (1969) (antitrust – patent pools); Holmes Group, Inc.

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The IPKat

JULY 22, 2022

The proposed Design Law Treaty (DLT) The Treaty aims to streamline the international system for protecting designs, making it easier, faster, and cheaper by accelerating the procedures and eliminating red tape. This is referred to as a proposed new ‘patent disclosure requirement’.

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The evergreening of patents is a common element of pharmaceutical patents. The evergreening of patents is a common element of pharmaceutical patents. The most crucial method that global medicine enterprises use is drug evergreening of patents.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 7, 2024

Significantly, the agreement requires India to make substantive changes to its provision obligating a patent applicant to furnish information about their foreign applications corresponding to their application in India. Prathibha Sivasubramanian is a law researcher working with TWN.

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Garrigues Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The owner of a patent cannot enforce their rights against those who used the invention covered by the patent or made serious preparations for such use before the priority date. In an earlier blog, we discussed “prior public use” as grounds for opposing the grant of European patents (see here ).

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Patently-O

AUGUST 4, 2021

A world first – South Africa recently made headlines by granting a patent for ‘a food container based on fractal geometry’ to a non-human inventor, namely an artificial intelligence (AI) machine called DABUS. Each of these three jurisdictions found sufficient reasons in these formalities to reject DABUS’ patent applications.

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Intepat

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry on the 22nd August, 2023 published “The Draft Patents (Amendment), Rules, 2023” (Draft Rules). Patent applications and prosecution thereof is currently governed under the Patents Rules 2003 (2003 Rules).

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In the spring and summer of 2022, following the international sanctions imposed upon Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, Russia introduced several landmark changes to its IP law, most notably to patent, trademark and copyright laws.

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Patently-O

JULY 8, 2022

David Tropp sued Travel Sentry for patent infringement back in 2006. That was the same year that I first taught a patent law class. Back then, eligibility was almost an unknown concept in patent litigation. The rule of thumb was “anything under the sun, made by man,” and I mean ANYTHING. 208 (2014).

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Patently-O

MAY 24, 2023

According to the USPTO , women represent over 50% of the workforce and 27% of STEM workers, but comprise only 13% of inventors on patents. video presentation , slides) Students in a Patent Law course I taught at Harvard Law School were assigned to watch a 1.5-hour

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The crux of the decision is as follows: [T]he district court read our precedent as applying a bright-line rule that patent infringement notice letters and related communications can never form the basis for personal jurisdiction. 2006); Hildebrand v. Personal Jurisdiction as Not Patent Law Specific. 3d 1356, 1364 (Fed.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The book's cover wonderfully matches the colours of the Villa Salviati gardens This is a book review of IP Accidents: Negligence Liability in Intellectual Property , by Patrick Goold , City Law School, University of London. Léon is currently finishing his PhD on the proportionality principle and injunctions for patent infringement in EU law.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Patents (including utility models) are protected through registration with the UAE Ministry of Economy, Intellectual Property Protection Department (IPPD) and/or through the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) Patent which is administered by the GCC Patent Office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and governed by the GCC Patent Law.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This guest post was authored by Joel Smith, a 3L at the University of Missouri School of Law, with support from the team at the Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic. Why is there a post about a veterans law case on a patent law blog? Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the “Federal Circuit”), of course!

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

by Dennis Crouch One of the more shocking patent decisions of 2023 was Judge Alsup’s holding in Sonos, Inc. The scathing opinion left two Sonos multi-zone smart-speaker patents unenforceable due to prosecution laches and a rejection of the $32 million jury verdict. Google LLC , No. C 20-06754 WHA, 2023 WL 6542320 (N.D.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2023

With deep expertise in litigation and patent prosecution and counseling, the attorneys represent clients across a range of industries and in various legal venues. Newly promoted principals for 2023 are: Ashley Bolt has experience handling complex patent and intellectual property litigation in U.S. District Court, before the U.S.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Indeed, the court thought that inducing infringement, which to date had been considered wrong only in respect of patents, applied to all forms of intellectual property (“IP”). IP infringements are one such example of a statutory tort, as Comp o and many other courts in Canada and elsewhere have long recognized.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Dr Llewelyn published widely on plant breeders’ rights, culminating in the monograph, (with Dr Mike Adcock), European Plant Intellectual Property (Hart 2006). Margaret was born in Romsey, Hampshire on the 7th October 1962, to Mair and Tom Llewelyn both with strong roots in and links to Wales.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 14, 2022

The 1952 Patent Act edited the law to allow for reissue for “error[s]” where the patentee claimed either “more or less than he had a right to claim.” At the time, Congress also added a statutory caveat that broadening reissue must be applied for within two years of the patent grant. by Dennis Crouch.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2021

Voxer argued that a live broadcast feature offered by Facebook infringes its patent EP 2 393 259. Facebook initiated the present proceeding to revoke the patent. Voxer counter argued that the patent was valid and infringed. Brussels-based trainee patent attorney, Henry Yang , summarizes the key points. 60(1)’ below.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 27, 2024

We have traversed through Junes , Julys , Augusts , Septembers , Octobers , and Novembers and shared some stories like 10 years of the Google Books Library Project, the Presumption of validity of patents, Corruption in IP Offices, the Serial Crisis in India, Law Making via Leaked Documents, etc. Did you miss anything? Don’t worry.

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