LexBlog IP

APRIL 26, 2022

The Full Court has taken a conventional approach to determining the meaning of the term ‘inventor’ in the Patents Act 1990 , observing (at [83]) that ‘[t]he duty to resolve an issue of statutory construction is a text-based activity’ and that while it is ‘appropriate to consider policy considerations.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

A patent must teach one skilled in the relevant art how to make and use the claimed invention, as required by 35 U.S.C. p) explains that unless an invention is disclosed such that one skilled in the art will be able to practice it without undue experimentation, at least one operative example of the invention must be set forth.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

However, following the entry into force of Patents Law 24/2015 (PL), we need to reassess whether this is always the best strategy. Such authorization may not be given for inventions of interest to national defense, unless expressly authorized by the Ministry of Defense”. What is an invention made in Spain? of the LP).

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The EPC as it currently stands does not permit a grace period in which inventors may disclose their invention without prejudicing a future patent filing. If the inventor has disclosed their invention during the grace period, then further disclosures by third parties also don't constitute prior art ( AIA 35 U.S.C.

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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By Dennis Crouch In a recent unpublished decision, the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of CPA Global Support Services, LLC (“CPA”) (now part of Clarivate) against a claim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. Dr. Robinson, a neurosurgeon, invented a type of spinal implant.

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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. Those cases held that an inventor forfeits their right to patent a process by selling products made by that process for several years while keeping the process secret.

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Patently-O

APRIL 30, 2024

That claim requires too much follow-on research work and so does not sufficiently disclose the invention. Still, those will likely be unrecognized for their worth until some later date when a human truly invents but is blocked from patenting. Ben Hattenbach & Joshua Glucoft have an interesting 2015 article on point.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 4, 2022

We begin with the appropriately named Fourth of July Echinacea, the subject of PP26075, issued November 10, 2015: U.S. Inventor Louis Schuetz of Newark, New Jersey, was also concerned with entertaining the children on the Fourth of July, and received U.S.Patent No. Lastly, inventor William G. PP2605, Fig. Edward Driscoll, Jr.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sywula was excluded from being listed as an inventor on the patents, including US11087250 and US11087252; and that was upsetting. An inventor is a presumptive owner of any resulting patent rights. The district court explains: Sywula adequately pleads he sought employment in the field of his claimed invention. July 26, 2022).

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Garrigues Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Under the European Patent Convention (EPC) and national patent regulations in the countries that adhere to the Convention, which include Spain, an invention is patentable if it fulfills, among other requirements, the inventive step requirement ( article 54(1), (2) EPC and article 4(1) of Patents Law 24/2015 ).

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Patently-O

MAY 22, 2024

by Dennis Crouch In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit vacated a district court’s grant of summary judgment that an inventor, Dr. Mark Core, had automatically assigned a patent associated with his PhD thesis to his then-employer and education funder TRW. Core Optical Techs., Nokia Corp. , 23-1001 (Fed. May 21, 2024). 2d 1568 (Fed.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

MPF claims are a particular type of claim in patent law that allows an inventor to claim an invention based on the function that it performs, rather than the specific structure or materials used. In its important 2015 decision in Williamson v. Functional claiming is a constant lure for patent drafters. 3d 1339 (Fed.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

Representation of Female Inventors on Patent Teams Jordi Goodman Equity would be achieved in 2092 if current trends continue. In 2015, 29% of patent applications name at least one woman inventor—up from 17% in 1997. of named inventors are women. Group dynamics: is everyone equally likely to be on a team?

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

MAY 12, 2020

Determining inventorship, prior to patent issuance, can save an applicant the costly procedural and evidentiary burden required for correcting the named inventors post patent issuance. Does it appear that one or more of the named inventors have no part in the invention? The test asks two questions: 1.

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Patently-O

JULY 22, 2021

Chemours is a 2015 spin-off from Du Pont. However, our invention] has a very narrow molecular-weight distribution. You’ll note that the an inventor would not need to shift far from Kaulbach’s 24 g/10 min example flow rate to get within Chemours’ claimed rate that includes about 27 g/10 min. Chemours Company v.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

RapidPulse decision in that provides important guidance on the use of a provisional patent application’s filing date for 102(a)(2) prior art under the America Invents Act. 102(a)(2) is a bit clunky, but its effect is to codify the first-to-file regime created by the America Invents Act of 2011. Penumbra, Inc. RapidPulse, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The case arises out of a 2018 lawsuit, in which four self-described inventors of DNA Arrays brought suit against Illumina, a “multibillion-dollar, global player in genetic analysis,” alleging that Illumina and its associates conspired to steal Petitioner’s trade secrets and covertly conceal the information in patent applications.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 11, 2021

A 2015 court case and trade secret law help shed some light on this question. In 1987, a man by the name of Norberto Colón Lorenzana claimed to have invented the chicken sandwich while employed for a Church’s Chicken franchise in Puerto Rico. Upon graduation, he intends to practice transactional law.

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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. There were two interferences at the PTAB, in 2015 and 2019, both triggered by the UCB through request and application. Conclusion.

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Garrigues Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The owner of a patent cannot enforce their rights against those who used the invention covered by the patent or made serious preparations for such use before the priority date. In addition, a third party’s use of an invention before its registration by another is also relevant to assess patent infringement.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As expected, the Board of Appeal in T 116/18 has now referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) questions on the use of post-filed evidence to establish plausibility for an invention. The post-published data submitted by the patentee were considered fundamental to deciding the question of inventive step. litura and P. xylostella ).

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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.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 4, 2020

Is an invention autonomously generated by artificial intelligence patentable? This is a question that is being studied including by the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) which launched an investigation into issues associated with patenting artificial intelligence inventions. an inventor must be a natural person.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In 2015, DeepMind , owned by Alphabet, developed Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) AlphaGo to beat the reigning three-time European Champion, Fan Hui, in the board game “Go.” In addition to creative works, AI can now “invent.” who invented or discovered the subject matter of the invention.”

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The challenged patents both teach a similar claimed invention that is “directed to a poll-based networking system that connects users based on similarities as determined through poll answering and provides real-time results to the users.” The challenged patents are related and both trace their priority date to U.S.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

PatentNext Summary: In some instances, software-based patent applications can fail to include a sufficient algorithm describing “how” the software interacts with the underlying hardware of the invention. a computer engineer or computer programmer) to make or use the related software-related invention without undue experimentation.

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Patently-O

MARCH 30, 2022

62 (1853), the famous inventor of the single-line telegraph (Morse) claimed patent rights to the use of electro-magnetism for transmitting a signal–without limit to any “specific machinery or parts.” 2015) ( en banc ). by Dennis Crouch. Functional claim language has long been a mainstay of U.S. patent law. ” Id.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Sex toys don’t seem to have been added until 2015. Patent has two buckets: utility for useful inventions, design for ornamental designs. Overlap in inventors listed. Apple does the same thing—utility and design patents overlapping w/same inventors listed. Porn/adult film, sex therapy, and nudist resorts also missing.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

973,] 980 [(2015) ]; [Pascal] Chapdelaine, [The Property Attributes of Copyright,] 10 Buff. 92, 96 (1876) (“A patent for an invention is as much property as a patent for land. Nation Enters., 539, 546, 105 S.Ct. 2218, 85 L.Ed.2d ”); see also Ruckelshaus, 467 U.S. at 1011, 104 S.Ct. 34,] 51-61[(2014) ]. Wright , 94 U.S.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In that case, Gilead Sciences sequentially filed separate patent applications, leading to patents with different expiration dates, claiming inventions that were obvious variants of each other. 10, 2015) (opinion and order granting summary judgment of invalidity based on ODP); see also , Janssen Biotech, Inc. Natco Pharma Ltd. ,

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The lawsuit was filed in July of 2015 and asserted two patents: U.S. In its fact findings, the court noted that PMC and its inventors prosecuted their patent applications “serially.” Furthermore, PMC also submitted to the PTO thousands of prior art references, many of which “bore little relevance to disclosed inventions.”

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IIPRD

MAY 10, 2020

Some of these schemes and programs work with the assistance of professional IP practitioners who are empaneled in respective departments, programs, or schemes while others provide monetary assistance to start-ups, inventors, institutions, etc. CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SCHEMES AND PROGRAMMES. Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (NRDC).

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

important;}} ASSIGNEE: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture INVENTORS: Hardigan; Michael A. & important;}} INVENTION OVERVIEW: The world of berries has seen an exciting new addition in the form of a red raspberry cultivar, ‘Finnberry’, which is poised to make waves in the industry.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 3, 2023

Ericsson argued that, under the 2015 EU decision in Huawei v. Sony (Beijing High Court 2015) — Chinese court upholds portfolio rate where sole asserted patent was key to larger portfolio. treating the Standard Essential Patent as akin to a ‘ransom strip’ of land).” 2013) — U.S.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2022

Figure 1 below provides an overview of biosimilar approvals by FDA and product launches in the United States from 2015 to 2021. 2015; resubmitted Feb. 2015; resubmitted Dec. March 6, 2015. September 2015. Biosimilar Approvals and Launches by Year. November 15, 2019. No earlier than 2023 per settlement. .

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