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By Dennis Crouch In a recent unpublished decision, the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of CPA Global Support Services, LLC (“CPA”) (now part of Clarivate) against a claim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. Robinson, M.D. and his patent holding company (Spectrum Spine).

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Patently-O

JANUARY 29, 2023

He was previously Chair 2015-2019. Issa has been called-out by the group US Inventor for his previous failure to focus on their particular concerns. Ryan Davis at IP360 is reporting that Rep. Darryl Issa is the new chair of the House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, this Australian study better reflects worldwide applications because most Australian patent applications are from international inventors who have filed patents in several jurisdictions. Their investigation found that a majority (greater than 60%) of female inventors were working in life sciences.

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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

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

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. However, he is missing one purportedly crucial qualification: he cannot claim to be an inventor of any patented technology.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 31, 2022

He joined GW Law in 2015 after a fellowship at Stanford and received tenure in 2020. He is named as an inventor on 13 patents, is the first-named author on five scientific publications, and spoke at dozens of conferences and presentations. Professor Karshtedt’s work was wide-ranging.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 27, 2021

The Fish attorneys recognized and their respective programs include: Timothy Riffe – California Inventors Assistance Program. Yao Wang – California Inventors Assistance Program. Craig Deutsch – LegalCORPS’ Inventor Assistance Program. Grace Kim – LegalCORPS’ Inventor Assistance Program. Jacqueline Tio – Georgia PATENTS.

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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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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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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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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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IPilogue

AUGUST 25, 2021

However, as all the co-inventors believed that the medicine should be widely available and not restricted by costs, they sold their intellectual property rights to the University of Toronto for just $1. The not-for-profit project was started in 2015 by Anthony Di Franco. The project is not limited to the U.S.

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Patently-O

APRIL 30, 2024

Ben Hattenbach & Joshua Glucoft have an interesting 2015 article on point. 32, 42 (2015). The difficulty lies in distinguishing between legitimate insights and spurious connections. Patents in an Era of Infinite Monkeys and Artificial Intelligence , 19 Stan.

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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. Citrix Online , LLC, 792 F.3d 3d 1339 (Fed.

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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 addition, a trade secret remains an enigma while a patent requires the inventor to actually describe how his invention works. Jonathon Ballantyne is a third-year law student at Wake Forest University School of Law.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The provision recognizes that a prior-filed patent application will typically serve as prior art against another later-application filed by a different inventor and assignee. ” 102(a)(2) serves an important role in post-AIA law because it codifies the rules of the first-inventor-to-file regime. 8, 2015). 122(b)).

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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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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

Surprising to some, it is well-established that inventors need not actually reduce their invention to practice and actually test it in order to obtain a patent. Using prophetic examples, inventors may “constructively” reduce their invention to practice and explain how one would or could test the claimed invention. Sandoz Inc.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2023

From 2015 through 2017, Rae served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Gloria M. from The George Washington University Law School in 2015. cum laude from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 2015 and was the executive online editor of the Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property. Navarro of the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is a case that has been vigorously litigated since 2015 and has already been up on appeal to the U.S. CODA and its owner, Frantisek Hrabel, brought suit against Goodyear and one of its engineers, Robert Benedict, in 2015, claiming that Benedict and Goodyear had stolen their trade secrets for a self-inflating tire technology and process.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This is a case that has been vigorously litigated since 2015 and has already been up on appeal to the U.S. CODA and its owner, Frantisek Hrabel, brought suit against Goodyear and one of its engineers, Robert Benedict, in 2015, claiming that Benedict and Goodyear had stolen their trade secrets for a self-inflating tire technology and process.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Their understanding, however, was caused to due a docketing error that reflected their deadline to be at the end of November 2015, while the actual deadline was May 2015. Therefore, such a flexible interpretation of statutory compliances could prejudice others.

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Patently-O

APRIL 8, 2024

The Court concluded that “it did not need the genius of the inventor” to recognize the benefits of a higher vacuum once the underlying scientific relationship was known. 565, 648 (2015). Note I did not go back and read this old book, but rather found the reference in Jeffrey A.

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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. For example, what if the inventors live totally or partially in a foreign country but the applicant is Spanish and resides in Spain? Compulsory application for protection in Spain. Many scenarios may arise.

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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.

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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.” where the federal circuit held that only “natural persons” can be inventors), and Univ. By: Ben Suslavich.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 9, 2023

to have David Howard added as an inventor to Hormel’s U.S. More than a decade later in 2018, the Bacon Patent was issued naming four inventors that assigned rights to Hormel. In spring 2018, HIP sued Hormel in the District of Delaware alleging that Howard was a sole or joint inventor of the Bacon Patent. Efforts by HIP, Inc.

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Garrigues Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The right of prior use is set forth in article 63 of the current Patents Law of 2015, the wording of which is practically identical to that of article 54 of the earlier Patents Law of 1986. The right of prior use is also applicable to utility models (article 150 of the Patents Law of 2015 ).

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

On appeal, the Federal Circuit explained that “[t]he test for the sufficiency of the written description is whether the disclosure of the application … reasonably conveys to those skilled in the art that the inventor had possession of the claimed subject matter as of the filing date.” MicroStrategy, Inc. , 3d 671 (Fed.

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Olartemoure Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

ROTATING CHRISTMAS TREE STAND US1988343A Inventor: Claris F. REUSABLE GIFT-WRAPPING FABRIC US9174783B1 Inventors: Stephanie Grabell and Jodi Kahane Assignee: Wrapeez LLC Date of Patent: Nov. 03, 2015 A revolutionary approach to sustainable gift wrapping. MISTLETOE SUPPORTING HEADBAND US4488316A Inventors: Ronald J.

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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.” The court overturned the jury’s unanimous verdict to issue this ruling. The Procedural History and Facts of the Case. Patent Nos.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Lee is vice president at Amazon Web Services and was the Undersecretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (2015-2017). The transition to a first inventor to file system was needed to harmonize the U.S. She spent a decade at Google leading their patent team. . with the rest of the world.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

13.5) (T 919/15, T 536/07, T 1437/07, T 266/10, T 863/12, T 184/16, T 2015/20). The Board of Appeal in the referring decision appeared to disagree with the "no plausibility" line of case law, noting that it would permit armchair inventors to claim whatever they thought that it might be possible to prove later (r. 13.7.2).

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The specifications of the challenged patents frame the inventor’s problem in terms of how to improve existing polling systems by performing progressive polling and focuses on details of receiving and comparing answers to generate matches, and not on how to improve computer technology. ” (citation omitted), see also OIP Techs.,

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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. This also holds for first listed inventor. 2 of the time, or 4%.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

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