Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

DECEMBER 13, 2021

With the spike in economic growth in the battery and electric vehicle (EV) industries, the IP world is seeing a commensurate spike in battery patenting activity. Ralph Phillips , and Daniel Tishman explore this growth and discuss considerations for companies protecting and defending their IP. PDF copy available.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Worldwide IP filings increased by 3.6% The biggest increase in patent filings was in Asia, where 67.6% of worldwide patent applications were filed. The biggest increase in patent filings was in Asia, where 67.6% of worldwide patent applications were filed. decrease in filings and a 1% increase in trademark filings.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 21, 2023

The tool also provides basic information on patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copyright. At the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Patent Prosecution Highway or PPH is a set of initiatives promulgated by participating patent offices around the world to accelerate patent prosecution in countries of the participating patent offices. Patent applications filed under PPH with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) enjoy similar benefits.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Last October, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a Request for Comments on USPTO Initiatives To Ensure the Robustness and Reliability of Patent Rights. Patent owners, especially small businesses and independent inventors, need two things of the patent system: 1) Reliability/believability.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 15, 2024

Ideal candidates will have at least 10 years of recent experience in all aspects of utility and design patent drafting and prosecution practice; managing international patent prosecution of patent portfolios; analyzing and summarizing patent searches, drafting legal opinions, including patentability, validity, infringement and freedom-to-operate.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

As the battery and electric vehicle (EV) industries continue to grow, in tandem the IP world is experiencing an increase in battery patenting activity. With these technical advances comes an increase in legal activity, including intellectual property (“IP”) filings and litigation. PDF copy available.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

Registrar of Trademarks rather scathingly pointed out a glaring error in an order passed by the Senior Examiner of Trademarks. The Trademarks Office (TMO) was directed to restore the Appellant’s application and to dispose of the same in an expeditious manner. In April this year, the Delhi HC in Blackberry Ltd v.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 23, 2023

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) sent out an email alert on March 16, 2023 about its transition to eGrants for patents. This change to electronic patent grants as opposed to paper patents is in accord with the USPTO’s continued changes to an all-electronic and no paper system.

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Patently-O

JULY 23, 2022

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Jonathan Stempel: Cisco Wins Reversal of $2.75-Billion Amy Simonson: Ohio State University Wins Trademark For The Word ‘THE’ (Source: CNN). Richard Lawler: Supreme Court Rejects Apple’s Bid To Continue Fighting Over Two Qualcomm Patents (Source: The Verge). Source: Forbes.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Continuing our annual tradition of recounting the significant developments that impacted the Indian IP landscape in the year that has been, we bring you a round-up of 2021’s developments. This year, we have divided these developments into three categories: a) Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact).

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently released new guidance to patent examiners on making obviousness rejections. The purpose of this article is to propose a few responses one might use to counter rejections that apply certain problematic aspects of the new guidance.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 17, 2023

He is interested in IP law, and commercial and criminal litigation. From conflicting positions on AI as a co-author of a work to the contours of information required u/s 39 about the patent applications filed abroad, we had some engaging posts on this blog this week. Hons) student at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

While there are a number of aspects covered by “Artificial Intelligence”, ranging from definitions to scope, from life-saving to life-threatening, there has been surprisingly limited public policy discussion on the intersection of AI and IP in India. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law. Arul Scaria).

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Earlier this year, the European Patent Office (EPO) updated some of its Guidelines for Examination in a way that potentially could affect U.S. patent litigation.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

for infringement of the ‘197 patent under the Hatch-Waxman Act, but the district court found that the Belcher Chief Science Officer withheld material information from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) during patent prosecution, and the CAFC affirmed. Belcher brought the suit against Hospira, Inc.

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SpicyIP

JULY 25, 2021

A Parliamentary Standing Committee Report that Challenges the Fine Balances Within the IP System. As many studies have shown, such a faith-based approach to IP protection is far from empirical realities. This is not to say that IP protection is completely irrelevant for a country like India. Dr. Arul George Scaria.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 21, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal imploring her to take steps to strengthen the Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations (UANIPIO) in the face of Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Representative Victoria Spartz (R-IN) sent a letter on Monday to U.S.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Tom Li: BlackBerry Sells Legacy Patents For $600 Million (Source: IT World Canada). Blake Brittain: Apple Wins New Trial in Wireless Patent Case After $85 million Loss (Source: Reuters). Patents, Copyrights (2) (Source: Bloomberg Law). Billion Caltech Patent Case (Source: Reuters).

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IP Watchdog

JULY 12, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register announcing that the agency would be revising its rules of practice to require that information disclosure statements related to patent term adjustments (PTAs) be submitted on Form PTO/SB/133. Today, the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As outlined in our article, The Good, the Bad and the Missing: Findings from a Review of the Data on Granted Retroactive Foreign Filing Licenses, Petition.ai’s subscribers’ most searched patent petition type is for retroactive foreign filing licenses (RFFLs). In the article, we highlighted that 71% of applications petitioning the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) office actions on the merits, a patent applicant has the option to appeal the patent examiner’s decision rejecting one or more claims to a higher forum, i.e., the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). After two or more U.S. Why make this request? What are the pros and cons?

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As with any growing industry, cannabis stakeholders are eager to protect their valuable intellectual property (IP) rights, but their ability to obtain comprehensive IP protection and enforce their IP rights is sometimes in conflict with federal drug law. FDA Regulation. THC – even if such products are legal under state law.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that certain intellectual property (IP)-related transactions are now authorized in Russia, following publication by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of General License No.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In a June 20, 2022, article on IPWatchdog, I addressed a portion of the June 8, 2022, letter from Senators Leahy, Blumenthal, Klobuchar, Cornyn, Collins and Braun to U.S. As of the date of this article, the USPTO has not issued the notice.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to address drug patent issues, 30 public comments were filed in response to the Federal Register notice issued last November seeking input on ways that both agencies could promote both innovation and patient access to generic pharmaceuticals.

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Patent Trademark Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

This article will provide you with helpful knowledge to develop a PCT strategy that will hopefully benefit your national stages, particularly in the US. Depending upon the details of the claim rejections, it may make sense to do a simpler amendment under Article 19 without a further search opinion.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 20, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO, the Office or the Agency) has recently issued multiple guidance and proposed rules that potentially change the landscape of patent practice.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 2, 2022

AIPLA’s Design Rights Boot Camp is a first-of-its-kind, two-day, comprehensive CLE program designed for both new and experienced IP practitioners who wish to learn about protecting and enforcing designs via all available areas of IP, including design patents, copyrights, and trade dress. Date & Time. James Aquilina.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 16, 2024

As we have reported recently, IPWatchdog broke news last week about a Reddit thread dedicated to purported patent examiners in which one examiner asked their peers for advice on how to approach examination of patents that have purposes they may fundamentally disagree with politically--specifically, a patent geared toward Israeli military technology.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued its one millionth design patent on September 26, 2023. This milestone comes during a particularly prolific period for design patents. In 2022 alone, the USPTO received more than 50,000 design patent applications.

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SpicyIP

JULY 31, 2023

Interestingly, in the Patent Examination Manual of the New Zealand IP Office, earlier the emphasis was given to the novelty of the process, however, after its 2013 Patent Act, the novelty of the claimed product obtained by the claimed process will be tested against the anvils of the existing prior art.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a Notice on the “Duties of Disclosure and Reasonable Inquiry During Examination, Reexamination, and Reissue, and for Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board” on July 29, 2022 (87 FR 45764-67), without a big reaction from the IP community.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 9, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will officially publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) tomorrow that would change terminal disclaimer practice related to “non-statutory double patenting.”

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2023

With deep expertise in litigation and patent prosecution and counseling, the attorneys represent clients across a range of industries and in various legal venues. with honors from Emory University, where she was the articles editor of the Emory Law Journal. Chet Campbell focuses his practice on patent litigation at the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced guidance for practitioners and the public regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the preparation of filings for submission to the Office.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 31, 2022

Both AR and VR will undoubtedly bring a whole set of novel IP issues for individuals, companies, IP practitioners and the courts. Augmented Reality (“AR”), along with Virtual Reality (“VR”), is rapidly growing in prominence and will be transformative to the way we live, work, learn and play.

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