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SNIPR Tech. Ltd. v. Rockefeller Univ., No. 22-1260 (Fed. Cir. July 14, 2023)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

This case addresses certain implications of the Laehy-Smith America Invests Act (AIA), namely whether patents with a filing date after March 16, 2013 (pure AIA patents) may be part of an interference proceeding under pre-AIA, 35 U.S.C. ยง

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The Chicken Sandwich Wars: A Sampling of Intellectual Property Law in the Fast Food Industry

LexBlog IP

Jonathon Ballantyne is a third-year law student at Wake Forest University School of Law. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Washington and Lee University and served as a class representative on W&L’s Executive Committee from 2013-2015. Upon graduation, he intends to practice transactional law.

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Agricultural Machinery Manufacturing Company (Par-Kan) Sued for Alleged Patent Infringement

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

8,221,047 , which Unverferth sued Par-Kan over in a similar infringement case in 2013 and had received subpoenas and a cease-and-desist letter , identifying the patents by numbers. The Plaintiff claims that Par-Kan had knowledge of the โ€˜940 and โ€˜123 patents because these patents are continuations of U.S.

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How about personalized medicine? Is the IP and Regulatory legal framework ready for this?

The IPKat

He has acted as an advisor to the European Patent Office (EPO), the European Commission, the European Parliament, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). He teaches European, U.S

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Copyrightability of a Programming Language

Patently-O

New briefs in support of the accused infringer WPL: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) : The law treats copyrightability of software differently than other literary works (as it should). Posner, The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law (2003). 1821 (2013). Patents should be the go-to in this area.

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UCB, Inc. v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc. No. 2021-1924, (Fed. Cir. Apr. 12, 2023)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Actavisโ€) submitted an ANDA application for approval of a generic version of Neuproโ€™s original formulation in 2013. In 2019, UCB again sued Actavis, this time asserting Actavisโ€™ 2013 ANDA application infringed the โ€˜589 patent. Neuproโ€™s original formulation has a rotigotine to PVP ratio of 9:2. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc.

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Raising the Bar Has Not Reduced the Patent Acceptance Rate in Australia

LexBlog IP

Between 2009 and 2013, the rate at which applications subject to the former (i.e. of cases in 2013/14 to 5.1% In fact, GPPH requests were the majority of all expedited examination requests in every post-RtB year except for the first (2013/14). pre-RtB) provisions were accepted rose from 69% to 72%. in 2019/20.