2003 Invention Patent Application Patent Law 
SpicyIP
AUGUST 1, 2021
A significant portion of the suggested reforms to the Patents Act is dedicated to recommendations on loosening the procedural norms of patent filing and patent examination. The Report recommends the shortening of this time frame to reduce delays that occur in the process of examining and granting patents.
Patently-O
APRIL 30, 2024
Services like All Prior Art are using AI to churn out and ‘publish’ many millions of generated texts, hoping some will preempt future patent applications. That claim requires too much follow-on research work and so does not sufficiently disclose the invention. See my 2014 post. 102, and are presumed to be enabling.
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SpicyIP
MARCH 21, 2024
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under which the Patent Office functions, has published for consultation a set of proposed amendments to the Patent Rules, 2003. Two of the provisions slated to be amended have a direct impact on the quality of patents granted by the Patent Office.
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).
Patently-O
AUGUST 29, 2022
In Patent Law class today, we started the chapter on “disclosure” that focuses on doctrines of enablement, written description, and best mode as codified in 35 U.S.C. CFMT’s two asserted patents claimed improved apparatus/method for cleaning semiconductor wafers using a specific closed-environment setup.
IP and Legal Filings
MARCH 27, 2024
of violating their patents related to the development of “enhanced internal combustion engine technology”. Utilizing the invention or technology outlined in the patents owned by the plaintiffs; and 2.The The idea of presuming the validity of a patent. Motor Company Ltd.) In order to deter the defendants from: 1.Utilizing
Patently-O
MAY 2, 2022
2022) focuses on the classic patent law question of whether the inventor’s pre-filing sales activity serve to bar the patent from issuing. The “on sale bar” prohibits patenting an invention that was placed “on sale” prior to the application being filed. by Dennis Crouch.
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