Patently-O

OCTOBER 4, 2021

But the inverse is true of patents currently being prosecuted: ~94+ of applications currently pending before the USPTO, we estimate, are governed by the AIA. 2021 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 34. Prior Patently-O Patent L.J. Our data can be found at: [link]. Pre-AIAPatents ). COVID-19Impact).

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Some of the most controversial provisions were ultimately dropped in order to get the law through Congress, and overall, the IP world was celebrating on September 16, 2011, that at least some action had been taken on reforming, and ostensibly strengthening, the U.S. patent laws.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 10, 2023

Read : David Boundy, What Every Patent and Trademark Lawyer Should Understand About the MPEP, TMEP, and Other Guidance: How to Use (and Defend Against) the MPEP to be a Better Advocate , 2023 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 1 (2023) ( Boundy.2021.HowToUseGuidance Prior Patently-O Patent L.J. Pre-AIAPatents ).

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Patently-O

AUGUST 5, 2022

Patent Law, because the U.S. Patent Act was amended in 2011 to expressly require that inventors be “individuals.” In its newest decision on the topic, the Federal Circuit declares instead, for the purposes of patent law, an inventor must be human. The word individual is important for U.S. 35 U.S.C. §

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Although the Patent Act does not expressly declare “inventors-must-be-humans” or “no-robots,” since 2011 it has stated that inventors are “individuals.” 100(f)/(g) (2011). Thaler has been attempting to seek patent protection for two inventions created by DABUS, his AI computer.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 20, 2022

From a patent law standpoint, the most interesting part of the appellate decision focuses on anticipation and the basic patent-law game show question “Is it Prior Art?” ” The purported prior art to the Ridge patent is a product manufactured and sold by Mosaic at a trade show. Is it Prior Art?

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LexBlog IP

JULY 28, 2023

Citizens, a credit union based in Peoria, Illinois, obtained a federal trademark registration in May 2011 2011 for the mark CEFCU. In January 2011, SDCCU filed a trademark application for the tagline IT’S NOT BIG BANKING, IT’S BETTER and obtained a federal registration for the mark in April 2014. .”

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 31, 2022

George Washington University Law School Professor Dmitry Karshtedt has passed. We often had different ways of thinking about patent law, and I always hoped that some day we might have time to write something together. He joined GW Law in 2015 after a fellowship at Stanford and received tenure in 2020.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The America Invents Act had a lengthy path through Congress before it was signed into law in September 2011, and it has spurred numerous court fights and regulatory changes in the decade since.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

And, even though the subject matter of the lawsuit is a patent license, that sort of case is ordinarily not seen as “arising under” the U.S. patent laws. The hook for the Federal Circuit was a declaratory judgment counterclaim filed by MasterCard seeking a ruling that an AlexSam patent was invalid.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

patent laws enacted on September 11, 2011; one relating to the U.S. changing from first-to-invent to first-to-file, the other relating to the creation of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and three new procedural mechanisms to invalidate issued patents. There were two revolutionary amendments to U.S.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

So these studies can’t tell us much about what’s going on in the Federal Circuit era, unless one assumes—unreasonably—that the Federal Circuit didn’t meaningfully change design patent law. We also looked at design patent outcomes in the International Trade Commission and the UPSTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In 2011, Hormel filed a patent application for the two-step process, omitting HIP’s involvement. The ‘498 Patent was issued from this application in 2018. Hormel conducted testing at Unitherm and later at Hormel. Also, Howard was not named as an inventor.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 19, 2022

Par had listed two patents in the Orange Book as covering its product and so, as required, Eagle’s ANDA included a Paragraph IV certification that the two patents were either (1) invalid or (2) would not be infringed. ” In re Brimonidine Patent Litig., 35 U.S.C. § 355(j)(2)(A)(vii)(IV). 3d 1366, 1378 (Fed.

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More Than Your Mark

MARCH 12, 2021

2011-000047, Tech Center 1700 (B.P.A.I. 9, 2011) (reversing obviousness rejection to claims reciting method of “applying orange juice or another juice containing citric acid to unblanched potatoes prior to pan frying and freezing”). The post Patenting Recipes – Recipe for Disaster or Sweet Reward appeared first on Patent Law Blog.

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Patently-O

APRIL 8, 2024

The decision also provides an interesting case study in the way that the court seems to blend considerations of obviousness and patent eligibility under the umbrella of the “invention” requirement, in a way that may seem foreign to contemporary patent law. Background The patent at issue, U.S. 57, 111 (2011).

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Patently-O

JULY 13, 2023

And, although we have long permitted patent filings as an alternative, the law sees that as merely a constructive stand-in for the real thing. At the same time, we have all heard the patent law maxim that an invention is defined be the scope of the claims.

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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 wt %” of the matrix (dependent claim 8).

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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. 102, a patentee’s pre-filing sale of a product made by a secret process starts the one-year clock for patenting that process. In my prior post on Celanese v.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 2, 2022

Historically, the overwhelming majority of decisions have related to inter partes proceedings, such as patent oppositions. Following a peak in 2015, inter partes decisions have been falling, while ex parte decisions have been generally on the rise since 2011. That is, however, no longer true.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The availability of the grace period in the US also provides the advantage that the patentability of an invention is not immediately destroyed by an unintentional disclosure or prior use by an inventor unfamiliar with the patent law ( IPKat ).

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Patently-O

JUNE 28, 2022

Women inventors are credited with only 72 patents during the first 70 years of the U.S. patent system. Although the records are unclear, I have not seen any indication that any of the patents issued 1790-1793 were awarded to women inventors. The patent laws were rearranged and recodified in the 1952 Patent Act.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This guest post was authored by Joel Smith, a 3L at the University of Missouri School of Law, with support from the team at the Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic. Why is there a post about a veterans law case on a patent law blog? 428 (2011). See Henderson ex rel. Henderson v. Shinseki , 562 U.S.

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SpicyIP

MAY 8, 2022

Eashan has been practicing as an intellectual property advocate and consultant in New Delhi since 2011, and teaches a seminar on intellectual property law at National Law University, Delhi. Eashan writes about Indian intellectual property law on his Medium page. Indian trade mark law acknowledges both positions.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 22, 2021

In fact, over the centuries, patent law has developed a formal approach for evaluating a product’s “innovation.” The FDA can find comfort knowing that the law, particularly intellectual property (IP) law, has already defined “innovation.” 314.50 (2011). products.” [xix] xx] Braeburn , 389 F.Supp.3d 102 (2012).

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In 2011, Hormel filed a patent application for the two-step process, omitting HIP’s involvement. The ‘498 Patent was issued from this application in 2018. Hormel conducted testing at Unitherm and later at Hormel. Also, Howard was not named as an inventor. ” On November 6, 2023, the U.S.

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Larson & Larson

MARCH 25, 2021

This is because business method patents have more chances to be challenged. The America Invents Act of 2011 allows people to challenge your patent within the first 9 months after the patent is granted. The need for the right verbiage is particularly acute with business method patents because of how they can be challenged.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Copeland-Chatterson Co v Hatton (1906) 10 Ex CR 224, 241, aff’d without appealing this point (1906) 37 SCR 651 (patent); Nycomed Canada Inc v Teva Canada Ltd 2012 FCA 195 at [3], aff’ing 2011 FC 1441 (patent); Prest-O-Lite Co v People’s Gas Supply Co (1917) 16 Ex CR 386, 389, aff’d (1917) 55 SCR 540 (trademark)).

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 23, 2022

Micro entity status is a newer status, introduced under the America Invents Act Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”) in 2011 as an effort to reduce the cost of patenting for small businesses and individual inventors. Each applicant is obligated to update the patent office anytime their entity status changes.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

patent laws. 8, 2011). On appeal, the Federal Circuit found the jury instructions appropriate. Notably, the court refused to require any jury instructions on the presumption against extraterritorial application of U.S. 28, 2018) ( subsequent modifications omitted ). S1375 (daily ed. In his testimony, Sen.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In 2011 and 2016, Moderna filed several patents on its mRNA technology and vaccines, which issued in 2020 and 2021. In 2017, Moderna began working with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to further develop the MERS vaccine.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

It notes that despite the government initiatives to strengthen India’s IP regime, applying the ‘narrowly focused’ and ‘stringent’ patent laws toward AI applications remains challenging. Surprisingly, here the report does not mention any protection (or lack thereof) within the IP laws of the country.

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Patently-O

MARCH 1, 2023

The CCPA’s articulation of the basic truth of patent law in Roberts – that the claims define the limits of the invention, and the specification details how the invention is to be practiced – is arguably no longer good law following American Axle. 4] It could be so defined, according to the CCPA. [5] 3d 1057, 1063 (Fed.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

MAY 27, 2021

Inventors should be aware, however, that if a provisional patent application expires without converting it to a full non-provisional patent application within a year, the inventors will lose the priority date of the provisional patent application if they later file a subsequent patent application for the same invention.

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 18, 2023

On June 1, 2021, the Fourth Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law became effective. An important part of the amendment is the introduction by Article 76 of the patent linkage system in China – a system for litigation of drug patents prior to market entry of generics, similar to that provided by the Hatch Waxman Act in the US.

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Patently-O

MARCH 18, 2024

Campbell filed a provisional application in 2011 and a non-provisional in 2012 that eventually issued in 2016. The Patent Act includes a 6-year statute of limitations, but as written it only applies to cut-off recovery for patent infringement — and does not apply to lawsuits to correct inventorship. 663 (2014).

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Kessler Doctrine is particular to patent law and falls somewhere in-between issue and claim preclusion–allowing preclusion in instances where it would not be traditionally available. Here, PersonalWeb sued Amazon for patent infringement back in 2011 based upon Amazon’s use of its S3 cloud storage services.

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