Patently-O

APRIL 10, 2024

Dr. Robinson, a neurosurgeon, invented a type of spinal implant. In 2009, Dr. Robinson and Spectrum (collectively “Plaintiffs”) hired law firm FisherBroyles to file patent applications for his inventions. patent application for the spinal implant in March 2013.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As the America Invents Act (AIA) turns 10, patent students across the country may be asking: if the law is already a decade old, why am I spending so much time learning pre-AIA law? We address these questions empirically by analyzing the effective dates of patents and patent applications currently being litigated or pursued.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 29, 2024

Third, patentability of a method of agriculture- the issue of Section 3(h). The Factual Matrix Mitsui Chemicals (Appellant) filed a patent application in India through the PCT route in 2009. The application claimed priority from a Japanese application and the PCT claims was directed towards- “1. Let’s dive in.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As of now, there are two traditional routes to obtain patent protection for an invention in Georgia. The first option involves filing an application directly with the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia (Sakpatenti). The second one, as you might expect, is through the PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) system.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 10, 2023

of the Patents Cooperation Treaty Regulations (a provision that provides for condonation of delay by a period of one month with respect to the submission of national phase patent application) in the petitioner’s favour. 5 February 2018 The petitioner filed an International Application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

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Patently-O

MARCH 4, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit held oral arguments on March 4, 2024 in the important patent case of Celanese Int’l. The question: Under the AIA, does sale of a product by the patent applicant prohibit the patentee from later patenting the process used to make the product? v ITC , 22-1827 (Fed.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

But, the order isn’t clear on how this specific omission substantiates the application of the exception. Degrees), Regulations, 2016 and the UGC Act, 1956 which have mandatory application on the Universities. Examining application of Section 8(1)(d). Intent to exclude versus Duty to disclose?

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 20, 2022

A 2022 study by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) indicates that from 2016 to 2020, a U.S. As necessity is the mother of invention, the need to prevent Christmas tree fires has led to numerous patent applications in this area. Patent Application No. Patent Application No.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 24, 2023

Obviousness analysis primarily focuses on comparing the claimed invention against the prior art and using that consideration to guess whether the gap would have been obvious to fill at the time of the invention. Even without a presumption, nexus can be shown by tying the evidence to the “unique characteristics of the claimed invention.”

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Certificate Course in Application of Intellectual Property Rights for Startups and Entrepreneurship [November 22- 23] Course in Brief Dates : 22nd – 23rd November, 2023 Time : Day 1: 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM IST; Day 2: 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM IST Venue : Centre for Technology and Law, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar Duration : 1.5

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Patently-O

JANUARY 20, 2023

Are inventions described in works of science fiction patentable? In our new paper, The Patent Law Origins of Science Fiction , available at [link] , we show that science fiction as a literary form was originally premised on the idea that works of science fiction are like patents. University of Minnesota Press 2016).

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

[i] Utility patents are the most prevalent type of patent. As of 2016, the United States Patent and Trademark Office estimated that 90% of the issued patent documents are utility patents. [ii] Who can apply for a patent? Anyone with an invention—an inventor—may apply for a patent.

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Patently-O

JULY 6, 2022

USPTO (Supreme Court 2022) focuses the question of whether COURTS have power to create non-statutory patentability doctrines. Does the judiciary have the authority to require a patent applicant to meet a condition for patentability not required by the Patent Act? 2016 Decision ]. 35 U.S.C. § Abbvie Inc.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In Arthrex , the Supreme Court rewrote the Patent Act, charging the USPTO Director with authority to review final written decisions stemming from inter partes and post grant review proceedings (IPR/PGR). One open question is the Director’s role in mill run patent applications that have been rejected by the Board.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 31, 2022

The idea of DAO is not that new with the most well-known DAO (uninventively called “ The DAO ” ) dating back to 2016. Similar, with regard to patents, under the Patents Act 1977 , an inventor means the “actual deviser of the invention” and the owner of a patent can be a company.

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Intepat

APRIL 11, 2023

As a result of this, the Scheme for Startups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP) was launched in 2016 which focused on facilitating stronger IPR protection for Startups in India. Regarding trademarks, they will aid in the filing to disposal of International Trade Mark applications originating from India under the Madrid Protocol.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In the event, the answer to this question turned on whether or not the applicant (i.e. Dr Thaler) could satisfy statutory requirements to name the inventor, and to indicate how he is entitled to be granted patents on inventions that he did not claim to have devised himself.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Under the on-sale bar, both design and utility patents will be invalid where “the invention was. on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the United States.” before the effective filing date of the claimed invention”); 35 U.S.C. §

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The IPKat

AUGUST 16, 2021

Analysing this decision, first of all, the question arises as to how it was possible to register this patent? The subject matter of the patented invention must be new at the time of filing a patent application. That patent was canceled by the decision of the Chamber for Patent Disputes.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Double-patenting ( G 4/19 ) Early in the year, the EBA issued its decision on the question of double patenting. The prohibition against double patenting prevents the grant of more than one European patent application having the same filing date and applicant, and directed to the same subject matter.

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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. . By this time, it was the fall of 2016 with an election pending. with the rest of the world.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2022

patent applications have mimicked the larger investment in AI technologies, AI-related IP disputes have lagged behind consumer adoption. Even at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) – one of the busiest forums for IP disputes – very few cases directly involve AI technologies. A Bloomberg Law article noted that U.S.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Patent Office is not supposed to issue separate patents for the same invention to competing inventors. Several statutory provisions empower the Office to reject pre-AIA patent application claims of the later inventor. A year later, they filed a non-provisional application, which WIPO published in August 2014.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The closing initial A suggests the patent is just an application, but this is not true. OAPI granted the patent on 31 May 2019. It belongs to a patent family whose priority goes back to the US provisional patent application US62/249,758 or US201562249758P. Article 27.3.b

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SpicyIP

MAY 6, 2024

Case Summaries Rich Products Corporation vs The Controller Of Patents & Anr. UPL Limited vs The Controller Of Patents Designs And Trademarks on 30 April, 2024 (Calcutta High Court) Image from here The present dispute is an appeal challenging the order of Joint Controller, dated July 31, 2023, refusing patent application of the appellant.

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SpicyIP

JULY 13, 2023

As per the data in the 2021-22 IP Office Annual Report, a total of 66,440 applications were filed in India, which is 7,937 applications more than the last year’s filings (58,503). Are These Patents Being Used or Are They Merely Blocking Future Patents?

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 18, 2023

The monograph has 2 major sections: Comparative analysis of patent systems across jurisdictions. Analysis of Patent Proceedings in India and a sub-section on analysis of about 250 patent opposition proceedings that were on-going in the period 2016-2021. of the total published applications. ’.

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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. 28, 2016); MLC Intellectual Property, LLC v. 2016 WL 4192009, at *3 n.4 9, 2016); DDB Techs., 3d 1208 (Fed.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 12, 2023

As one might imagine, patent law frequently comes down to what particular terms in a patent mean, and because the whole point of a patent is to describe a new invention, existing language may sometimes now fully capture what an invention, or element thereof, really is. Vitronics Corp. Brunswick Corp.,

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2023

Although the said doctrine is expressly referred to in the Belgian legal provision governing the effect of patent revocation, the Court found that it could not order Novartis to compensate Mylan on this basis, because it would amount to a hidden no-fault liability, which was excluded by the CJEU in the Bayer case.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Controller of Patents and referred the following 2 two questions to the division bench- 1) Does the requirement of parent application to contain plurality of inventions without any objections by the Controller, necessary?; Read Yogesh’s assessment of the order. M/S Bikaji Foods Int.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The judgement was passed in a writ petition filed by Natco Pharma against the Controller’s order granting Novartis a patent for a form of the Valsartan-Sacubitril complex, after conducting a unilateral hearing excluding Natco therefrom. The judgement was passed collectively in an appeal against 4 orders (two impugning the 2016 Ericsson v.

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IIPRD

MAY 10, 2020

National Research Development Council(NRDC) was established by the Government of India with the primary objective to promote, develop and commercialize the technologies, inventions, patents, processes emanating from various R&D institutions or universities and is presently working under the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 4, 2022

Like anticipation, the standard for obviousness of design patents differs from that of utility patents. 13] IPR2016-00434, Paper 9 (PTAB July 5, 2016). [14] 12] In these cases, because the petitioner could not establish a proper Rosen reference, the PTAB’s analysis did not move to the second obviousness inquiry.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Recently, on September 15, the Delhi High Court set aside an order from the Indian Patent Office rejecting the patent application on the basis of the old CRI Guidelines, 2016. 3(k), especially regarding computer-related invention(CRI). 3(k) of The Patents Act, 1970 reads as: 3.What

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

IP includes any creation of the mind, including inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names, images, and designs, and various forms of IP protection cover these different categories. Patent Prosecution, Portfolio, and Strategic Patenting Considerations.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Patenting Trends for inventions using AI in the Life Sciences and healthcare Fields. Patent filings at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) across the above-referenced life science and healthcare categories reflect a similar trend. These include IBM, Nvidia, and LG Electronics. See 37 CFR § 1.211 ).

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