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Celanese v. ITC: The Overlooked 271(g) Wrinkle and Competing Policy Concerns

Patently-O

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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Insulin Biohackers: Shaking Up a Billion-Dollar Industry

IPilogue

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. How do patents play into this?

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The MPF Resurrection: Still Waiting for a Miracle?

Patently-O

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. These decisions from the 1980s and 1990s began the downward drive of MPF usage. 3d 1339 (Fed.

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Grace period in the patent system: a commercial advantage?

Garrigues Blog

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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Arguing Obviousness: Teaching Away versus an Alternative Approach

Patently-O

Chemours is a 2015 spin-off from Du Pont. 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. The basic idea here is that an obvious valuable invention would already be in the market place.

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Anatomy of a Phyrric Victory: Did Defendant Goodyear Tire and Plaintiff CODA Development Both Lose a $65 Million Trade Secrets Case?

LexBlog IP

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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Anatomy of a Phyrric Victory: Did Defendant Goodyear Tire and Plaintiff CODA Development Both Lose a $65 Million Trade Secrets Case?

LexBlog IP

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.