IP Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its much anticipated Inventorship Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventions (“Guidance”). [1] 1] The Guidance is retroactive, meaning it applies to all patent applications and issued patents filed before, on or after February 13, 2024. In Thaler v. 4] Based on U.S. 101 and 35 U.S.C.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The short answer is that while lines of code are not patentable, software can be patentable if it is useful and can be susceptible to commercialization. Canada’s Patents Act and the Manual of Patent Office Practice (“MOPOP”) both guide the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) in issuing patents.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Background In 2011, Congress passed the AIA, which transformed the U.S. patent system from a first-to-invent system to a first-to-file system. Under a first-to-file system, the first person to file a patent application has “priority” regardless of the invention date.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 23, 2022

Micro Entity Status: Qualifying to Reduce Patent Fees. Are you a small business or an individual inventor filing for a patent in the U.S.? If so, keep reading to learn about how you can reduce your patent fees through micro entity status. important;}.thegem-template-wrapper.wpb_wrapper.thegem-custom-623b791352da51164{flex-wrap:

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The Patent Trial and Appeal Board recently designated as precedential a portion of its Penumbra v. RapidPulse decision in that provides important guidance on the use of a provisional patent application’s filing date for 102(a)(2) prior art under the America Invents Act. Penumbra, Inc. RapidPulse, Inc.

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Patently-O

MAY 19, 2022

(b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication … more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the United States, or. We can quickly eliminate the 102(b) time-bar because the patent applications at issue here were filed within the one-year grace period.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 20, 2023

Gernsback was also an inventor and serious scientific thinker in his own right. He died with over thirty patents to his name. His magazines were full of information about patents and advice on patenting—which Gernsback deemed an essential step in the commercial success of any new invention. Compare 35 U.S.C. §

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Patently-O

APRIL 8, 2024

The Court concluded that “it did not need the genius of the inventor” to recognize the benefits of a higher vacuum once the underlying scientific relationship was known. At the same time, the Court also emphasized that “it is method and device which may be patented and not the scientific explanation of their operation.”

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Start with the sheer volume of patent applications. he states that over 600,000 applications are filed each year, meaning an examiner only has approximately 19 hours for examination. In such a situation, … bad patents are basically inevitable. Focusing on the U.S.,

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Indivior’s patent issued in 2017 from the fifth continuation in a series of applications (including four abandoned applications) dating back to a first continuation filed in 2013, and to an earlier application filed in 2009, which published in 2011. wt % to about 58.6 ” In re Wertheim , 541 F.2d

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our hard-working students and community members published more than twice as many articles than in 2020 and the most articles in a calendar year since 2011. This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. Continued Debates over AI as an Inventor.

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The subject matter of a patent claim must not have been previously disclosed, and the invention must not be obvious to a person skilled in the art or science to which it pertains [1]. 2011 FC 174 , the defendant was challenging the validity of plaintiff’s patents. On the other hand, in Valence Technology, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

On February 28, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“ PTAB ”) issued a decision on priority in an interference proceeding between the Broad Institute, Inc. Patent Application No. The inventors listed on Broad’s patent are Feng Zhang, Ph.D., Count 1 recites claim 18 of Broad’s U.S.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

She spent a decade at Google leading their patent team. . The America Invents Act (AIA), which passed on September 16, 2011, brought about some of the most significant changes to our patent system in over 50 years. Many of the AIA reforms strengthened our patent system. with the rest of the world.

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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. Patent Nos.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 10, 2022

The difficulty lies in overcoming Patent Office objections related to subject matter eligibility, which prohibits the patenting of abstract concepts and mathematical formulae (for more on this, see The Four Pillars of Patentability ). . In 2011, Amazon was successful in obtaining a patent on their ‘one-click’ method.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

. ” [ii] Accordingly, immunity from invalidity attacks for double patenting could be found for divisional applications if they were “forced” or filed in response to a unity of invention objection raised by the Examiner during the prosecution of the parent application. In view of Consolboard Inc.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Plaintiff had argued that all the rights pertaining to the film vests with them by virtue of an agreement with the producer entered in 2011. Controller General of Patents Designs and Trade Marks launches IPO Grievance Portal. Opposition filed against a patent application which claims AI to be the inventor.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Recently, on September 15, the Delhi High Court set aside an order from the Indian Patent Office rejecting the patent application on the basis of the old CRI Guidelines, 2016. From 2011 to 2017, there have been numerous flip-flops as to whether the exclusion of computer software u/s. 3(k) is a broad or narrow.

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