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Biosimilars 2020 Year in Review

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

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. Below, we review these notable developments and more from 2020. Biosimilar Approvals and Launches in 2020.

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How long does a U.S. patent or trademark application take to grant? (2020 edition)

IP Spotlight

The USPTO recently released its FY2020 Performance and Accountability Report , with contains helpful information about allowance rates, average pendency, and other statistics about its review of patent and trademark applications this year. The total number of nonprovisional patent applications filed dropped by about 2%, to 653,311 in 2020.

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Pirate IPTV Ops See Damages Reduced By $7m, Admin Panel Evidence Fell Short

TorrentFreak

NCP received a similar tip in 2020, this time from police in the city of Gävle. At the Stockholm District Court’s Patent and Market Court in October 2023, the men were found guilty of criminal copyright infringement and sentenced to prison. Thousands of Customers, But How Many Thousands?

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Dmitry Karshtedt

Patently-O

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. I and many others had many wonderful conversations with Dmitry both over email and in person.

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Etsy Launches New IP Portal

Plagiarism Today

After the brand is registered, the user then registers various intellectual properties including trademarks, copyrights and patents, The form does ask if the property is registered or not and, if it is, requires that the user provide the registration number and location. How this system will help with these cases is less clear.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Filings Continue Explosive Growth Trend at the USPTO

LexBlog IP

PatentNext Summary: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Application filings continue their explosive growth trend at the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO). At the end of 2020, the USPTO published a report finding an exponential increase in the number of patent application filings from 2002 to 2018. This trend has continued.

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Patent Protection on AI Inventions

Intellectual Property Law Blog

In recent years, AI patent activity has exponentially increased. The figure below shows the volume of public AI patent applications categorized by AI component in the U.S. 1 are defined in an article published in 2020 by the USPTO. AI patent activities by year. from 1990-2018. The eight AI components in FIG.

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