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The Inventive Concept: Unclear Judicial Guidance Causes Frustration for Inventors

LexBlog IP

The Court’s denial of opportunities to clarify this issue has caused American inventors to unreasonably weigh the risk of disclosing their inventions against the uncertainty of acquiring a patent. CLS Bank Int’l , decided in 2014. Unclear rules discourage inventors from disclosing their inventions.

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EFTA-India Free Trade Agreement and Patents Rules Amendment: Compromising Public Accountability and Transparency in the Indian Patent System

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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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In First Half of 2021, 63% of U.S. Patents, 48.9% at EPO and 40.1% in China Were Software-Related

IP Watchdog

Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice Corp. Yet the debate still rages over when a software (or computer-implemented) claim is patentable versus being simply an abstract idea “free to all men and reserved exclusively to none” (as eloquently phrased over 73 years ago by then-Supreme Court Justice Douglas in Funk Bros. CLS Bank decision.

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Whither goest the patent troll?

The IPKat

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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Federal Circuit Imperils Term-adjusted Patents

LexBlog IP

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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Keeping up with Belgian patent litigation: Year case law review 2021

The IPKat

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!)