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Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB’s Ruling of Swearing Behind a Prior Art Reference

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Patents 8,048,032, RE45,380, RE45,776, RE45,760, and RE47,379 (collectively, “the challenged patents”) under pre-AIA’s first-to-invent provisions. VSI”), asserted that the claimed invention of the challenged patents was conceived in early 2005. Patent 7,736,355 (“the ’355 patent”) does not qualify as prior art to related U.S.

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Challenges of Proving Inventorship: Corroboration of All Inventive Facts

Patently-O

These patents, US Patents 8,048,032, RE45,380, RE45,776, RE45,760, and RE47,379, cover inventions devised to offer an “enhanced backup support” in contrast to using a guide catheter individually. Teleflex’s patents claim a priority filing date of May 3, 2006, based on a purported conception date in early 2005.

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Infographic | IP on wheels

Olartemoure Blog

However, we do know about the first self-propelled wheelchair that was invented in 1655 by Stephan Farfler in Nuremberg , a 22 year old paraplegic clock-maker who built it to aid his own mobility. 15, 2005 This convertible wheelchair has a detachable lift module that elevates the chair at three secure points. Mulhern and Stephen J.

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Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB’s Ruling of Swearing Behind a Prior Art Reference

LexBlog IP

Patents 8,048,032, RE45,380, RE45,776, RE45,760, and RE47,379 (collectively, “the challenged patents”) under pre-AIA’s first-to-invent provisions. Issue(s) Whether the Board correctly found that the ’355 patent failed to qualify as prior art to the challenged patents under pre-AIA’s first-to-invent provisions.

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Guest Post: DABUS Gains Traction: South Africa Becomes First Country to Recognize AI-Invented Patent

Patently-O

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. Guest Post by Meshandren Naidoo and Dr. Christian E.

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Battle for gene editing: the US Appeals Court rules on CRISPR patents

Garrigues Blog

In this case, the PTAB issued a decision on the so-called “interference process” –a procedure that determines, between two or more patents in dispute, which has priority according to the “first-to-invent” system–. The Court of Appeals agreed with SNIPR, reversed the previous decision and overturned the cancellation of its patents.

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Evergreening of Patents

Kashishipr

India changed its Patents Laws in 2005 to comply with the TRIPS Agreement. Before the amendments of 2005, pharmaceutical manufacturers were not granted patents. They took into consideration Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005. However, after the changes, the rights of the manufacturers were recognized.

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