IP Watchdog

AUGUST 13, 2022

On August 5, US Inventor and Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund (Eagle Forum ELDF) jointly filed an Amicus Brief supporting inventor David Tropp’s petition for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. 208 (2014).”. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) regarding whether Tropp’s method claims are patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The inventor of a novel jump rope system (the Revolution Rope), Molly Metz, is petitioning the U.S. 191 (2014); and Grogan v. Supreme Court through her company, Jump Rope Systems, LLC, to seek clarification of the collateral estoppel doctrine as applied by the U.S. Trans Ova Genetics, L.C. Hargis Indus., 138 (2015); Medtronic, Inc.

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Patently-O

APRIL 10, 2024

By Dennis Crouch In a recent unpublished decision, the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of CPA Global Support Services, LLC (“CPA”) (now part of Clarivate) against a claim of negligent misrepresentation brought by inventor James C. application in March 2014 that issued in 2018. Robinson, M.D.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 7, 2022

208 (2014), courts, attorneys and inventors have struggled with the metes and bounds of what subject matter can and what cannot be patented. Since the Supreme Court handed down its decisions in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 66, (2012) and Alice v. CLS Bank, 573 U.S. By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 22, 2023

After a nine-year saga, beginning when Amgen sued Sanofi for allegedly infringing two of its patents in 2014, the Supreme Court held that Amgen’s asserted patents failed to satisfy the enablement requirement under 35 U.S.C. § On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a unanimous decision in the case of Amgen Inc.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In particular, we know that the first-inventor-to-file provision found in 102(a)(2) spells out, as the name suggests, that a prior-filed patent application (once it becomes public) will serve as prior art against a later filed patent application. And, as you recall, Pasteur’s 2014 patent is not prior art. See Baxter.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2023

Operation Gervais Local anti-piracy groups SACEM and ALPA filed a complaint against Zone-Telechargement in 2014. One local report notes that between 2014 and 2016, the pair from Toulouse earned 600,000 euros each for their work on the site. They are seen as the inventors and initiators of a fraud system.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Women inventors are making significant strides, leaving an indelible mark on the world of innovation and intellectual property. In India, the “share” of female inventors who filed patent applications between 2019-2021 was 10.2%. of all inventors , with men making up the remaining 83.8%.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2023

The filing date of the patent was March 28, 2014, but it claimed through a chain of priority back to a 2004 provisional patent. Rather, the Federal Circuit wants to see that the disclosure reflects what the inventor believed to be his invention. The courts want to see what the inventor knew and when he knew it.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 26, 2022

2:21-cv-00126-JRG-RSP) (not available on line for free from what I can see) addressed an accused infringer’s argument that the assignment of the patent-in-suit from the sole inventor (Afana) to the plaintiff, Mobile Equity, was ineffective, and so the patentee lacked standing. Walmart (Case No. Taylor Made Plastics, Inc., 3d 916 (M.D.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 31, 2023

2014/0183326 (the ’326 application) dubbed “Halloween Pumpkin/Jack-O-Lantern Display Stand,” which faded into the abyss following a sinister scrimmage with the USPTO. Had the inventor infused the subject matter from one or more of these claims into the independent claims, the patent might have emerged from the murky mire.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Acuitas’s complaint states that “[t]he named inventors on the ’493 Patent Family [] should also include Acuitas’s scientists: Drs. ” Acuitas goes on to state that “Acuitas and CureVac have been collaborating on therapeutics that use Acuitas’s LNP technology since 2014. Patent Nos.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In 2014, Amgen sued Sanofi for infringing on its patents concerning drugs for lowering cholesterol. In their amicus brief, the National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP) stated that the court’s reasoning “leaves patent practitioners guessing about how to advise client-inventors regarding the extent of disclosure required”.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 7, 2024

However, in 2014, the Delhi High Court in Sukesh Behl V. Some experts suggest that the 2014 ruling aligns Section 8 more closely with the ‘Inequitable conduct’ defence in US patent law, due to its similarities in jurisprudence. Form 3 failed to disclose the information about the cessation.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2023

” Amgen sued Sanofi in 2014, alleging that Sanofi had infringed its cholesterol-lowering drug patents. The requirement facilitates public access to technical information needed to understand and use the invention and encourages innovation by rewarding inventors for their contributions to the field. § 112.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 26, 2021

Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice Corp. As an update to my posts from 2017, 2019, 2020, and March 2021, it has now been 86 months since the U.S. CLS Bank decision.

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Patently-O

JULY 6, 2022

Even if there is no prior art, the USPTO still bars a patentee from obtaining a separate patent claiming an obvious variation of already-issued claims held by the patentee/inventor. In its 2014 Abbvie decision, the Federal Circuit wrote that Obviousness Type Double Patenting is “grounded in the text of the Patent Act.”

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Unfortunately, the inventors of the ‘902 and ‘707 applications had to deal with the Grinch known as prior art. Neither application was distinguishable over the cited prior art, leaving each inventor with a modern day lump of coal – an abandoned patent application.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 9, 2021

898, 901 (2014), the whole claim, “read in light of the specification delineating the patent, and the prosecution history, fail[s] to inform, with reasonable certainty those skilled in the art about the scope of the claim” and 35 U.S.C. § Dr. Chang is also the listed inventor of the patent here and is CEO of the petitioner Rain Computing.

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Patently-O

MAY 24, 2022

208 (2014), extending Mayo ‘s holdings to abstract ideas and computer implemented inventions. In some ways, this is like the claimed process in Diehr , but instead of using the Arrhenius equation the inventors here just use an unstated algorithm. The court followed-up two years later with Alice Corp.

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Patently-O

JULY 8, 2022

” Tropp recently petitioned the Supreme Court seeking a writ of certiorari on the following question: Inventor David Tropp owns and practices two patents that disclose a solution to the problem of screening all passenger luggage for flights originating in the United States, following the September 11 attacks. 208 (2014).

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Patently-O

MARCH 26, 2024

Such inventors are worthy of all favor. One notable aspect of Atlantic Works , highlighted in a 2014 article by Daniel Leo is that “the patentee had derived his whole idea from suggestions of another person. 184, 201 (2014). ” Daniel M. Leo, Guideline for Patent Eligibility of DNA and Cdna , 96 J.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If a patent isn't granted after the first application, inventors can just keep filing continuations and motions for reconsideration. He argues-- If that wrapper is filled with the examiner's repeated rejections to certain claims and the inventor repeatedly appeals those rejections, it suggests low quality. Focusing on the U.S.,

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

MARCH 30, 2021

Conception is the formation, in the mind of the inventor, of a definite and permanent idea of a complete and operative invention. 3d 998, 1000 (2014). 3d 998, 1000 (2014). Solvay S.A. Honeywell International , 742 F.3d Reduction to practice requires that the claimed invention work for its intended purpose. Solvay S.A.

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IIPRD

MARCH 4, 2024

Patents : – It is a right which is granted to protect the interest of an invention, to protect the interest of the inventors for their new inventions. 24863/2014. [3] It is different from copyrights as patents is granted for industrial and commercial purpose and copyrights is given for artistic and literary work. 2] Novartis v.

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Patently-O

APRIL 30, 2024

See my 2014 post. Services like All Prior Art are using AI to churn out and ‘publish’ many millions of generated texts, hoping some will preempt future patent applications. These disclosures are often obscure, ambiguous and technically deficient and do nothing to promote the progress of the useful arts.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2023

Stephen Thaler was appealing a Federal Circuit decision that interpreted the Patent Act to require a human “inventor” for purposes of obtaining a patent. The Supreme Court yesterday declined to hear a case brought by a computer scientist whose “invention” was in fact created by artificial intelligence. Alice Corp.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The statistics demonstrated that from 2014-2018, men filed 62.5% The team put on weekly podcasts to spotlight women inventors and held sessions with outside experts to help women with IP processes. of patent applications, 31.4% of applications involved both genders or were gender neutral, and women filed 6.2%.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 22, 2022

USA, post 2014 recognizes the software patentability but India only recognizes software patentability only if it is somehow linked to some hardware or computer network. The procedures are simple: once copyright exists for a work in a member nation, it applies in all other signatory nations, according to their own laws. In Parker v.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 11, 2021

In 2014 , Lorenzana filed a complaint in an attempt to regain the earnings for his creation. In addition, a trade secret remains an enigma while a patent requires the inventor to actually describe how his invention works. While Church’s Chicken benefited from his alleged creation, Lorenzana did not.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2023

Many recall a famous 2014 case where monkeys got ahold of a photographer’s camera and snapped a number of selfies. Vidal held “We, too, conclude that the Patent Act requires an ‘inventor’ to be a natural person.” Copyright law requires the authoring of a creative work that is fixed in a tangible medium.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 22, 2023

After a nine-year saga, beginning when Amgen sued Sanofi for allegedly infringing two of its patents in 2014, the Supreme Court held that Amgen’s asserted patents failed to satisfy the enablement requirement under 35 U.S.C. § Sanofi, et al. , § 112(a), and are thus invalid. make and use the same.

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IPilogue

APRIL 25, 2022

Following the scientists’ publications, the United States transitioned from a first to invent patent system to a first inventor to file system, which became effective in March 2013. In 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) granted U.S.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

208 (2014) (quoting Mayo ). ” The inventors here apparently learned of recent “fingerprinting” algorithms that were being used for public-key encryption and then had the idea that the same technology could be used for creating unique file identifiers for computer file systems — i.e., “true names.”

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Garrigues Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

As a result, the right of prior use acts as a safeguard so that inventors that failed to file an application (or did so but did not get there first) can still use their own inventions. 10/2014, of 18 January 2014 , confirmed on appeal ). Real intention to use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” (For a comment, see here ) The DABUS team (the Artificial Inventor Project ) starting testing copyright law back in 2018, seeking to register with the US Copyright Office (USCO) A Recent Entrance to Paradise , an image created by DABUS. Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance.

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More Than Your Mark

AUGUST 20, 2021

An example of this is a 2014 initiative by Hasbro, Inc. , Those with concerns over trademark infringement may consider contacting the source of the 3-D print to obtain clearance to make products using the source. the toy company that owns the My Little Pony intellectual property.

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