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Johnson & Johnson’s “Non-Enforcement” of Bedaquiline Patents: What has Actually been Gained?

SpicyIP

Interestingly, the first patent for Sirturo was filed on 18/07/2003 ( PCT/EP2003/050322 ), meaning it is (more than) 20 years since their first filing. And earlier this year, the Indian patent office rejected their attempt to file a secondary patent on the drug. Fn 12 of the same paper).

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On Sale Bar – Sales require Consideration, not necessarily Money Payment

Patently-O

The original patent application was filed Feb 9, 2021 –one year and two days later and outside the one year grace period. The proposal expressly stated that “ownership and title to the Equipment” would be conveyed. The Feb 7 date is important. ” = = = =. Hallmark Cards, Inc. , 3d 1041, 1053 (Fed.Cir.2001)

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Patents and Cannabis

More Than Your Mark

Patents have issued with at least one claim containing the word “cannabis” or “cannabinoid.” The USPTO applies the same legal standard when reviewing utility patent applications related to cannabis, as it does to all other inventions. In short, a substance’s Schedule I classification is irrelevant to its patentability.

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IP infringement in Metaverse

IIPRD

It identifies the product of that company and recognizes its own and gives some rights to ownership that can be enforced. Metaverse is based on various patentable technical infrastructures, including AR, VR, cloud computing, etc. With the growing number of patent applications, the risk is also increasing.

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Journey Through “Julys” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

In July 2007, Aysha Shaukat’s post first discussed how Pakistan was planning to take legal action against India for patenting ‘Super Basmati’. However, it later turned out that there was no patent application for the Super Basmati, but rather, as Aysha said, it was a “proverbial case of the media conflating IP terms”.

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Artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights: the USPTO DABUS decision

Barry Sookman

”‘ The petitioner also advanced policy considerations to support the position that a patent application can name a machine as an inventor. SODRAC 2003 Inc., The Court also applies other malleable principles in construing the Act including the principle of technological neutrality. See, Canadian Broadcasting Corp.