Patently-O
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In 2016, over a year after it began selling Ace-K, Celanese filed patent applications on its heretofore secret Ace-K process. The “on-sale bar” was the statutory hook that prevented an inventor from commercially exploiting a secret invention for several years and then also obtaining a patent monopoly.
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Yet 2020 saw a slowdown in biosimilar activity with the lowest number of annual biosimilar approvals since 2016 and fewer product launches than 2019—as well as a decrease in district court litigation and post-grant proceedings. 2016; resubmitted May 2018). September 23, 2016. August 30, 2016. April 5, 2016.
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According to the NIST, the US govt invests approximately $115 billion in R&D through various universities, non-profits, and businesses. March-in rights are provisions that allow the government to require a license for inventions stemming from this investment, upon the fulfilment of certain conditions.
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