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SpicyIP Tidbit: CGPDTM Calls for Comments and Suggestions on Different IP Manuals and Guidelines

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On August 30, the office of the Controller General of Patents, Design and Trademarks (CGPDTM) released a public notice inviting comments from stakeholders to revamp the different IP guidelines and manuals. The invitation is specific to the Patents, Designs, Trademarks, GI and Copyright Manuals and Guidelines.

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 17 Attorneys to Principal 

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Dr. Caleb Bates focuses his practice on intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patent prosecution, strategic counseling, and worldwide patent portfolio management in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields. in biology and society from Cornell University in 2011. He received his J.D., He received his J.D.

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Patent Law and the False Claims Act.

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government since 1863 (the “Lincoln Law”) and is designed as a mechanism for catching (and thus deterring) fraud against the Federal Government. Here, the basis of Silbersher claim stem from the prosecution history files of the Allergan patent applications. 401 (2011) (interpreting a prior version of the Act).

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Fish & Richardson Principal Jeffrey Mok Named a 2022 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellow and Associates Excylyn Hardin-Smith and Usman Khan Selected for the Pathfinder Program

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The Fellows program launched in 2011 and was designed for lawyers with eight to 15 years of experience. Pathfinders is a seven-month professional program designed to train high-performing, early-career attorneys on foundational leadership- and relationship-building. and international patent prosecution.

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Fish Principals Author Article “Powering up” for Intellectual Property Magazine

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Patent prosecution, portfolio, and strategic patenting considerations. Patents have contributed significantly to the advances in science and technology that make lithium-ion batteries more affordable and efficient today. As of the date of this article, there have been more than 40 such cases in 2021.

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Artificial Intelligence and IP: A Literature Review

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It states that the current IP regime poses problems in the context of generic computer programs because of the way the algorithms are designed and trained using large data sets. They receive inputs at various stages of their development – be it designing the software, training the system and testing how it functions.

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PTAB Declares that Broad Institute, MIT, and Harvard Inventors Were First to Invent a CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing System to Alter Gene Expression in Eukaryotic Cells

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Broad’s inventor Dr. Zhang testified that he learned of CRISPR systems as a tool for genome editing by February 7, 2011, and by July 17, 2012, had designed a plasmid map of a CRISPR-Cas system for use in eukaryotic cells. Broad inventors Drs.