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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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Prior Art: The Patent Pitfall

Larson & Larson

A high number of patent applications are given a non-final rejection from the USPTO according to Yale. Often, the reason that the patent office will cite for rejecting an application is the presence of prior art. You may have heard the term ‘prior art’ before in the context of patents. Exceptions.

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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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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

The IP Law Blog

And be sure to confirm that all domain names and social media accounts are registered to the company; you would be surprised at how often a domain name or social media account is registered to an individual company employee and not the company itself. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws.

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Impact of other related Intellectual Property rights on the Pharmaceutical Industry

IIPRD

The fundamental patentability criteria are universal namely: novelty, inventive step, non-obviousness and industrial applicability. Inventions must also not fall within the scope of non-patentable subject matter according to law. Medical devices are patentable in India with certain caveats.

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Patentability of Food Recipes and the Section 3(e) Challenge

IIPRD

Recently, the office of Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks granted a patent to a ragi walnut soup mix prepared by the 52-year old woman, Shubhangi Patil. In her patent application, she claimed that her soup is free from preservatives and artificial additives. Conclusion.

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

LexBlog IP

And be sure to confirm that all domain names and social media accounts are registered to the company; you would be surprised at how often a domain name or social media account is registered to an individual company employee and not the company itself. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws.

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