LexBlog IP

AUGUST 9, 2022

What is at the core of invention? All inventions boil down to applying some natural law , but where is the line between natural law and invention? ” The most recent Supreme Court case which granted certiorari with regard to an “inventive concept” is Alice Corp. CLS Bank Int’l , decided in 2014.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 7, 2024

Section 8 and the Transparency of Indian Patent System According to Section 8 of the Indian Patents Act , patent applicants must regularly disclose to the patent office any same or substantially similar foreign applications corresponding to their patent applications for Indian inventions, and any updates relevant to their prosecution.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The worst of these patent trolls pick up low-quality patents and take advantage of asymmetries in the economics of litigation to make quick cash. The root source of this situation, according to Lederer, is the patent prosecution process. Start with the sheer volume of patent applications. Focusing on the U.S.,

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

selected address issues such as SPC protection for combination products, double patenting, prosecution history estoppel and the influence of declarations made by the patentee in parallel proceedings, the possibility for national courts to request technical opinions from the EPO under Art. The decisions we (arbitrarily!)

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This post explains some of the decision’s consequences and explores potential patent prosecution strategies. What transpired in Cellect was not entirely surprising after the court’s 2014 decision in Gilead Sciences, Inc. Gilead Sciences did not, however, involve family-related patents that received PTA.

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