IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The inventor of a novel jump rope system (the Revolution Rope), Molly Metz, is petitioning the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) to bar a patent infringement suit in district court where the CAFC has affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) finding of unpatentability. 138 (2015); Medtronic, Inc.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2023

In its last judgment of 2022, the Patents Court issued a decision in the case of Oxford University Innovation Ltd v Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd [2022] EWHC 3200 (Pat)). Thereafter, the Laboratory engaged Oxford University Innovation, the technology transfer office wholly owned by the University, to obtain patent protection for the Nanoimager.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

According to a recent study published in UNSW Law Journal , feminized names are less likely to be granted a patent in Australia. The study investigated female patenting rates in Australia over a period of 15 years. The study revealed that male sounding names were much more likely to have their patents granted.

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By Dennis Crouch In a recent unpublished decision, the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of CPA Global Support Services, LLC (“CPA”) (now part of Clarivate) against a claim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

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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).

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by Dennis Crouch This post gets into some weeds about obviousness type double patenting stemming from the Federal Circuit’s new decision in Institut Pasteur. This case provides additional insight into the doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting and the ongoing high bar set by the Federal Circuit for overcoming such rejections.

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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

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). She spent a decade at Google leading their patent team. . Many of the AIA reforms strengthened our patent system. with the rest of the world.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 27, 2021

Fish & Richardson is proud to announce that six of its attorneys were named recipients of the Pro Bono Achievement Certificate by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This recognition acknowledges those law firms and attorneys who help make the Patent Pro Bono Program a success. Jacqueline Tio – Georgia PATENTS.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 4, 2022

It’s the Fourth of July, 2022, and time to celebrate the holiday, as this blog always does, with patents. We begin with the appropriately named Fourth of July Echinacea, the subject of PP26075, issued November 10, 2015: U.S. Lastly, inventor William G. Posted in Patent of the Day. PP2605, Fig. Edward Driscoll, Jr.

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Patently-O

APRIL 30, 2024

by Dennis Crouch This article explores the impact of Generative AI on prior art and potential revisions to patent examination standards to address the rising tidal wave of AI-generated, often speculative, disclosures that could undermine the patent system’s integrity. See my 2014 post. 102, and are presumed to be enabling.

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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. 102, a patentee’s pre-filing sale of a product made by a secret process starts the one-year clock for patenting that process. In my prior post on Celanese v.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During one of the meetings, Sywula apparently sketched-out a diagram on a napkin that he gave to DaCosta and that eventually served as a basis for the patent filings in this case. Then came the patenting. Sywula was excluded from being listed as an inventor on the patents, including US11087250 and US11087252; and that was upsetting.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We often had different ways of thinking about patent law, and I always hoped that some day we might have time to write something together. He joined GW Law in 2015 after a fellowship at Stanford and received tenure in 2020. George Washington University Law School Professor Dmitry Karshtedt has passed. Sadly will never happen.

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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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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. The Gender Gap in Academic Patenting Miriam Marcowitz-Bitton, Michael Schuster, and Deborah R. In 2015, 29% of patent applications name at least one woman inventor—up from 17% in 1997.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The chart above shows a visualization of the percentage of issued patents that include means-plus-function (MPF) claims over time, with two separate estimates based on the wording used in the claims. ” The decline in MPF claims can be linked to several legal decisions and changes in patent doctrine.

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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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IPilogue

AUGUST 25, 2021

Macleod, refused to put their names on the patent for the drug, with Banting stating “as a physician who had taken the Hippocratic oath he could not be party to any patenting of a discovery.” Thus, the first patent application for an insulin patent was filed under Best and Collip’s names. How do patents play into this?

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

November 4, 2022: The Madras High Court allowed the two writ petitions filed by the applicant with respect to two patent applications that were deemed abandoned by the Indian Patent Office on account of delay in filing the Request for Examination. In Chandra Sekar Vs. The Controller of Patents and Designs & Anr.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Federal Circuit recently upheld the Patent Office’s decision to reject claims in four separate reexamination cases due to obviousness-type double patenting (ODP). Unless overturned, this decision will significantly affect patent families that have patents with different expiration dates.

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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

APRIL 25, 2022

After a decade-long dispute, the United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) decided that Drs. Charpentier and Doudna were not the rightful owners of the CRISPR-Cas9 patent, concluding that the gene editing technology belonged to Dr. Feng Zheng and her team of scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The Patent Trial and Appeal Board recently designated as precedential a portion of its Penumbra v. 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. Penumbra, Inc. RapidPulse, Inc.

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Patently-O

APRIL 8, 2024

By Dennis Crouch In 1931, the United States Supreme Court decided a landmark case on the patentability of inventions, De Forest Radio Co. The case involved a patent infringement suit over an improved vacuum tube used in radio communications. Background The patent at issue, U.S. 103 and patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. §

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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. The Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) 608.01(p) The Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) 608.01(p) Sandoz Inc.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2023

With deep expertise in litigation and patent prosecution and counseling, the attorneys represent clients across a range of industries and in various legal venues. Newly promoted principals for 2023 are: Ashley Bolt has experience handling complex patent and intellectual property litigation in U.S. District Court, before the U.S.

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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 an earlier blog, we discussed “prior public use” as grounds for opposing the grant of European patents (see here ).

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 11, 2021

With all these various fast food restaurants entering the fray, why did Chick-fil-A or other early players in the chicken sandwich game not block these upstarts with copyright or patent infringement injunctions? A 2015 court case and trade secret law help shed some light on this question.

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Patently-O

JULY 22, 2021

Obviousness is the central doctrine of patent law. Chemours is a 2015 spin-off from Du Pont. Its patents at issues here relate to a polymer having a high melt flow to allow high-speed extrusion to cover electrical wires. Patent Nos. Kaulbach prior art patent. by Dennis Crouch. The new Chemours Co.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In the August 2021 edition of our monthly Texas Patent Litigation Monthly Wrap-Up, we cover a case concerning the doctrine of prosecution laches. 2021), the Personalized Media court held that the asserted patent U.S. 8,191,091 (the “’091 Patent”) is unenforceable under the doctrine of prosecution laches. Patent Nos.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Sex toys don’t seem to have been added until 2015. Gilden: the patent side has categories for, e.g., devices for genital massage. Why the difference between patent & TM sides? TM office may get in the news more; articles about “how dare they grant a patent to this thing” don’t seem to appear.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

In accordance with the Spanish Patent Law, the first application for a patent made in Spain must be filed at the Spanish Patents and Trademarks Office and penalties can be imposed in the event of the breach of this requirement. have elapsed, unless express authorization is given by the Spanish Patents and Trademarks Office.

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Corsearch

MARCH 8, 2023

Prior to joining Chemours in 2015, I worked on teams during her career that managed global portfolios for brands such as Victoria’s Secret, AT&T and Elizabeth Arden. Secretary of Commerce in 2011 and 2014 to the United States Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Public Advisory Committee to serve two three-year terms.

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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. This can lead to issues in both prosecution and litigation, creating unnecessary expense or invalidation of a related patent.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

Interesting Patents | USA | Tuesday, April 11, 2023 @media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-6435b7e7bf4cc5036{display: important;}} The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants hundreds of new patents every week, showcasing developments in technology and innovation.

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