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

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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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Information and statements” may include, among other items, information that “refutes, or is inconsistent with, a position that the applicant takes in” either “opposing an argument of unpatentability relied on by the Office” or “asserting an argument of patentability.”. the party has a duty to submit the information to the USPTO.”.

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IP Tech Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

There has been pervasive use of Generative AI over the past few months, to create essays, works of art, music, and even source code for computer programs, as well as to take standardized examinations such as the LSAT, classroom exams, and even bar exams. A sample of this new eGrant patent is available here. 35 U.S.C. §

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

There has been pervasive use of Generative AI over the past few months, to create essays, works of art, music, and even source code for computer programs, as well as to take standardized examinations such as the LSAT, classroom exams, and even bar exams. A sample of this new eGrant patent is available here. ’’ 35 U.S.C. §

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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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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

10 YEARS AFTER THE AMERICA INVENTS ACT (AIA), THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD (PTAB) ENDURES. 1] Nevertheless, the PTAB remains the most active forum for patent disputes nationwide, handling significantly more matters in 2021 than both the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas and the District of Delaware. [2]. 1970 (2021).

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Patentably Defined

JANUARY 19, 2011

Generally, when drawings for utility patent applications are required, they must be black and white line drawings. Color drawings are permitted when they are the only practical medium to disclose a claimed invention and even then an applicant must petition the USPTO to accept them. national stage applications under 35 U.S.C.

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