IP.com

JANUARY 29, 2024

With a steady increase in patent submission rate and added strain on the patent review and approval system, the USPTO has announced plans to launch a new pre-application review program called the “Pre-Prosecution Pilot” as part of its continuing commitment to expand access to the innovation ecosystem and support under resourced inventors.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 20, 2023

For similar reasons, science fiction is rarely cited as prior art against later patent filings. Science fiction can qualify as prior art under § 102(a) as a “printed publication” or as “otherwise available to the public.” Gernsback was also an inventor and serious scientific thinker in his own right. See [link].

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Patently-O

MARCH 7, 2024

Celanese began selling the product on the competitive market in 2011, and eventually decided to file for patent protection on its manufacturing process in 2015. Those cases held that an inventor forfeits their right to patent a process by selling products made by that process for several years while keeping the process secret.

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Patently-O

MAY 19, 2022

And the Question : Does the prior publication count as prior art in an IPR obviousness analysis? = = =. Although the Board granted the petition, it eventually concluded that the prior publication was not prior art and thus sided with the patentee in its final written decision. A person shall be entitled to a patent unless —.

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IP Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

2] Section II of the Guidance confirms the USPTO’s position, and that of the Federal Circuit, regarding who can be named an inventor on patents or applications. Vidal , the Federal Circuit held an inventor or joint inventor must be a natural person. [3] In Thaler v. 4] Based on U.S. 5] Stated otherwise, a natural person (e.g.,

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Patently-O

APRIL 8, 2024

This was an improvement over prior art vacuum tubes which used weaker vacuums. The Court began by surveying the prior art, which showed that the scientific principles and methods for creating high vacuums in tubes were already well-known. 57, 111 (2011). ” citing the key eligibility case of Le Roy v.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As a result, the claims’ effective filing date was so late that prior art published between the patent’s actual filing date and its earliest claimed priority date rendered the claims unpatentable. Here the prior art was none other than the Patent Office’s publication of one of the claimed priority applications.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 6, 2021

2011 priority filing date). This general idea was already in the prior art, but the claims add a couple of additional features: Authentication function is normally inactive on the mobile device but is activated by the user for the transaction; and when once the transaction is done the authentication function is automatically deactivated. .”

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

patent laws enacted on September 11, 2011; one relating to the U.S. Now that the 10th anniversary of the America Invents Act (AIA) has passed, we can look back not only at the past decade, but also the reactions of various interested parties and how they responded to that anniversary. There were two revolutionary amendments to U.S.

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 1, 2021

Novelty is about prior art: can your examiner point to a thing already in the public domain that is practically a kissing cousin of your thing? The 2011 America Invents Act changed the appeals process a lot. This is the ‘new’ appeals board that the 2011 act put in place of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

MAY 27, 2021

It acts as a placeholder so an inventor can delay upfront costs of pursuing a full patent application while seeking additional funding, performing further testing of the invention, and determining its usefulness and value. Reasons to File a Provisional Patent Application. Keep Trade Secrets Secret.

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Patently-O

JUNE 28, 2022

When the Patent Act of 1790 refers to inventors, it lists gender inclusive forms of “he, she, or they:” [The inventor(s) must] set[] forth, that he, she, or they , hath or have invented or discovered any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement therein… Patent Act of 1790.

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Patentably Defined

JUNE 7, 2012

This person of ordinary skill is a hypothetical construct – an ordinarily skilled artisan who is presumed to possess ordinary creativity and to be aware of all prior art in his field of endeavor, as well as prior art that is relevant to the problem addressed by the claimed invention. 103 cannot be based on non-analogous art.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 14, 2023

Hormel Foods Corporation (22-1696) where the appellate panel found the purported inventor’s contribution to be “insignificant in quality. Blue Gentian sued Tristar for infringement of six patents, all of which relate to an expandable hose and named a sole inventor Michael Berardi: U.S. However, unlike in HIP, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 15, 2022

Art, said Stephen, is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.” The AI is not the maker of the Work but in some sense, the medium or tools of the art, no different than oil paints applied by the artist, brushes handled by the painter, or a camera pointed by the photographer. Vidal , Case No.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

While Death clearly raises some valid concerns regarding the challenges inventors face in trying to secure effective patent scope for inventions of this type, in my view it is an overstatement to say that chemical genus claims are “dead.” patent law’s primary non-prior art-based limitations on claim scope.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2021

The court addressed the admissibility of uncorroborated testimony about prior art and whether there was a legally sufficient evidentiary basis for the jury’s invalidity determination. Defendants Hewlett-Packard Company and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (collectively, “HP”) were sued in 2011 for infringement of U.S.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The number of patent submissions from India has witnessed substantial growth, more than doubling between 2011 and 2021. Lakshmikumaran Described the full IP ecosystem, which includes inventors, the administrative body, and a strong judicial system for IP enforcement. Ross Intelligence Inc., Raman Mittal Prof.

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