SpicyIP

JULY 25, 2023

Image from sketchplanations [Long Post ahead] Who wins in a conflict between the Competition Act and the Patents Act? Clearly, both the Competition Act and the Patents Act are special Acts, governing specific but intertwining subject matters. That’s been the central bone of contention in two big disputes for almost a decade now.

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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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Patently-O

JULY 26, 2021

Although trade secrets are independently important, they are play a key temporal role in the patenting process. The touchstone of invention is when the inventors have a full mental conception of the invention, including how to make and use the invention. In 2016, the U.S. Here is my question.

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Patently-O

APRIL 17, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit is set to consider the use of terms like “patented,” “proprietary,” and “exclusive” in commercial advertising can be actionable under § 43(a)(1)(B) of the Lanham Act when their use is not entirely accurate. Crocs largely prevailed in those actions.

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SpicyIP

MAY 10, 2023

Image from here On April 28, 2023, Justice Amit Bansal of the Delhi High Court passed three separate orders, all dealing with a similar issue- unclear, unreasoned orders from the Patent Office and the Trademark Registry (IP Offices) that rejected the patent/ trademark applications. Rosemount Inc.

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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. But sometimes it’s not clear who is the later inventor.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

2015) in finding that manufacture and delivery of a product in a foreign country can infringe a US patent if sufficient sales-activity occurred within the US. The case involves wireless communication chip logic patented by CalTech. 2016) on remand from 579 U.S. California Institute of Technology v. Broadcom Ltd. and Apple Inc.,

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

Background Appellant Yita sought inter partes review of two patents sharing a specification, both of which are directed to the vehicle floor tray. In one IPR, the Board determined that claims of one patent (the ’186 patent) were not unpatentable for obviousness.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Cir 2023) I was disappointed to see the Federal Circuit’s no-opinion affirmance in this case — affirming the PTAB finding that Team Worldwide’s inflatable airbed invention was unpatentable as obvious. Ultimately the PTAB sided with the patent challenger and and that determination was affirmed on appeal in a R.36

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 4, 2021

New Patently-O Law Journal article by Colleen V. 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? Figure 2: 2021 Pending Patent Applications Pre- vs. Post-AIA (Point Estimate).

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 24, 2022

For most of the past decade, the Supreme Court has been marking out the metes and bounds of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's execution of the post-grant review provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, particularly with regard to inter partes reviews (see "Oil States Energy Services, LLC. Lee (2016)"; and "Teva.

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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. The petitioner approached the High Court against the decision of the Controller of Patents. But he did not.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

For a patentee filing for patent protection regarding an invention made in the United States, a license is required before filing any application for a patent in a foreign country. Failure to get a foreign filing license can lead to invalidation of subsequently granted patents (35 U.S.C. §186). . §186).

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Patently-O

JANUARY 20, 2023

Are inventions described in works of science fiction patentable? This sort of science fiction is not patentable because it cannot logically be enabled or have credible utility when the patent is filed. For similar reasons, science fiction is rarely cited as prior art against later patent filings. See [link].

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Patently-O

JANUARY 10, 2023

New Patently-O Law Journal article by David Boundy , a partner at Potomac Law Group, PLLC. Mr. Boundy practices at the intersection of patent and administrative law, and consults with other firms on court and administrative agency proceedings, including PTAB trials and appeals. Prior Patently-O Patent L.J.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 4, 2021

New Patently-O Law Journal article by Colleen V. 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? Figure 2: 2021 Pending Patent Applications Pre- vs. Post-AIA (Point Estimate).

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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 ]. SawStop Petition for Certiorari.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 3, 2023

Burden on Proponent of Affirmative Defense Back in 2016 district courts started encountering infringement suits where the subject patents had survived PTAB challenge. Most courts held that since estoppel was an affirmative defense, the burden fell on the proponent patent owner. In Ironburg Inventions Ltd.,

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Injunctions are all the rage in contemporary patent law. This week marks the publication of a book by the IPKat’s Dutch friend and former GuestKat Léon Dijkman on the hotly contested notion of the proportionality test in European patent law, accessible for free here. Oh, how times have changed.

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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. Compare D.L.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This case addresses certain implications of the Laehy-Smith America Invests Act (AIA), namely whether patents with a filing date after March 16, 2013 (pure AIA patents) may be part of an interference proceeding under pre-AIA, 35 U.S.C. § patent system from a first-to-invent system to a first-to-file system.

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Patently-O

MARCH 18, 2024

The patent at issue, originally naming a single inventor (Steve Campbell), claims a lightweight intermodal container system for transporting refrigerated gaseous fluids. 256 to correct inventorship on an issued patent. The district court agreed, finding their contributions were significant to the conception of the claimed invention.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The headlines are the result of the Project’s filing of parallel applications to patent offices in several jurisdictions over a number of inventions generated by an AI system named DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Boot-strapping of Unified Sentience), invented by Dr Stephen Thaler.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 3, 2023

by Dennis Crouch Moderna filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pfizer and BioNTech in August 2022, alleging that the defendants COVID-19 vaccine infringes three patents related to Moderna’s mRNA vaccine technology. United States Patent Nos. 10,898,574, 10,702,600, and 10,933,127. 101, 102, 103, and/or 112.”

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 10, 2022

s $42 million patent infringement suit accusing Apple Inc. of knowingly ripping off its wireless earbud inventions when it released its AirPods in 2016. A California federal judge declared a mistrial Wednesday due to juror misconduct shortly after deliberations began in a weeklong trial of Pinn Inc.'s

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Moderna and Pfizer battle’s over the inventive process of their respective mRNA COVID-19 vaccines revisit the negative associations of profit, monopolies, and optics in patent litigation. Moderna claimed that they had registered foundational mRNA patents between 2010 and 2016.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 29, 2024

Controller of Patents made some notable observations on amendment of claims in a PCT application and Section 3(h) of the Patent Act. Controller of Patents. Second, procedure for amendment of claims under Section 59 of the Patent Act, 1970 (Act). Third, patentability of a method of agriculture- the issue of Section 3(h).

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In Rovi Guides Inc v Videotron Ltd , the Federal Court of Canada invalided patents for interactive program guide (“IPG”) technology and clarified a reasonable royalty as the appropriate remedy had the patents been found valid and infringed. Videotron did not renew its license which expired in 2016. Rovi’s conduct.

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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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Patently-O

JULY 14, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The key benefit of the first-to-file patent regime, introduced by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), is the clarity that it provides. The transition from first-to-invent to first-to-file has involved a number of quirks, the latest is found in SNIPR Technologies Ltd.

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Patently-O

APRIL 10, 2024

and his patent holding company (Spectrum Spine). 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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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 26, 2022

In Canada, there are practising patent agents and trademarks agents who are not lawyers. The College of Patent Agents & Trademark Agents (CPATA) is the recently created regulator of patent and trademark agents in Canada in respect of their agency practises. CPATA regulates agents who are and who are not lawyers.

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SpicyIP

JULY 13, 2023

Appreciating the trend of rising patents applications and eventual grants, last year the Minister of Commerce lauded the efforts of the DPIIT in “strengthening” the IP regime and “fostering innovation”, saying that their efforts have reduced pendency of applications as well as increased the number of filings.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 10, 2023

4_22-cv-04376 Western Digital sued Viasat for infringing claims from several patents, including US8,504,834, which covers “media streaming systems and software.” granted a motion to dismiss — finding the claims of the ‘834 patent directed to ineligible subject matter. 15, 2023) Docket No. Alstom S.A., 3d 1350 (Fed.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 6, 2023

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has released an update to its study on multiple Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) petitions that it says demonstrates that serial and parallel petition practice at the PTAB has been decreasing since 2016, when the Office first issued guidance on the subject.

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Larson & Larson

MARCH 25, 2021

Getting the right type of patent and understanding its full implications is a first step in protecting your intellectual property. After all, you want the patent that will give you the protection you need without wasting resources on the wrong paperwork. They patent what you would expect them to: methods or processes.

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SpicyIP

MAY 6, 2024

Controller of Patents. The MHC in Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC vs Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs clarified the role of the ‘person skilled in the art’ (PSITA) in determining non-obviousness. Case Summaries Rich Products Corporation vs The Controller Of Patents & Anr. Anything we are missing out on?

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