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Defending Design Patents

Patently-O

In our new paper, The Truth About Design Patents , we debunk three widely held—but incorrect—views about U.S. design patents. Taken together, these myths paint a grim picture of design patents: Half of all design patent applications are rejected. Acquiring Design Patents.

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Using AI in your Patent Practice

Patently-O

The notice is designed as a reminder to individuals involved in proceedings before the USPTO of that these pertinent rules and policies, and provides suggestions to mitigate the risks associated with AI use. ” Confidentiality and national security considerations are also discussed in the notice.

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Unfashionably Late: Seventh Circuit Rejects Misappropriation Claim Premised On Prototype Created Eleven Years Prior

LexBlog IP

Chester and MEA filed a related patent application, which was approved in part. REXA argued that Chester and MEA’s actuator incorporated and disclosed confidential designs contained within the prototype Koso developed in 2002. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Chester and MEA. REXA appealed.

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Curiosity Killed A Motion to Dismiss: A Biotech Company’s Business Negotiations Turns into a Trade Secrets Fight

LexBlog IP

ABL alleged that Zolezzi misappropriated more than 90 confidential and proprietary files. The files included ABL’s detailed business plans and documents disclosing ABL’s scientific testing results, experimental designs, patent applications, formulations, manufacturing processes, and marketing strategies.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 10- April 16)

SpicyIP

Highlights Of The Week IPO Rejects Janssen’s Secondary Patent Application for the Fumarate Salt form of Bedaquiline Image from here. To Be or Not To Be (Design): Calcutta HC Sways Against Trend of Denying Design Registrations Over GUIs Image from here Can a GUI be regarded as a Design?

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

SpicyIP

The judgement was passed in a writ petition filed by Natco Pharma against the Controller’s order granting Novartis a patent for a form of the Valsartan-Sacubitril complex, after conducting a unilateral hearing excluding Natco therefrom. Controller of Patents & Designs Patent Office Mumbai.

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Recent Hot Topics and Developments in Trade Secrets Law

Trading Secrets

The court concluded that plaintiff adequately identified its trade secrets by describing the product, process, and supporting documentation. 25, 2021) (misappropriation where defendant gave information to another employee who did not otherwise have access to the document). Disclosure of Trade Secrets in Patent Applications.

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