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The free evaluation of evidence of prior use (T 0042/19)

The IPKat

The Patentee argued that the GensuPen had only been given out as part of a trial under conditions of confidentiality ( Cf. The Board of Appeal agreed with the OD that the prior use had not been sufficiently proven. Ms Simon testified that, prior to the priority date, she had received a GensuPen injection device.

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

Trading Secrets

This article was originally published on Seyfarth’s Gadgets, Gigabytes & Goodwill blog. If there is anything movies like The Terminator have shown us, it’s that AI systems might one day become self-aware and wreak havoc. Spoiler alert: sharing invention details with ChatGPT does not count as public use or on sale.

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

LexBlog IP

This article was originally published on Seyfarth’s Gadgets, Gigabytes & Goodwill blog. If there is anything movies like The Terminator have shown us, it’s that AI systems might one day become self-aware and wreak havoc. Spoiler alert: sharing invention details with ChatGPT does not count as public use or on sale.

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Printed Publication: Documents Made Available only to Customers

Patently-O

A new petition asks the court to examine the phrase again and help define when a document crosses the publication threshold. In particular, the petition asks whether documents made available only to customers, and not generally to the public, count as being published. 102(a)(1). Centripetal Networks, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc. ,

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Prior Art: The Patent Pitfall

Larson & Larson

It’s the legal term for ‘thing that is exactly like my thing that was in the public before I made my thing.’ The term covers anything that was sold in public, used publicly, described in a magazine or similar publication, or already has a patent on file with the patent office.

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Implementing Article 15 of the CDSMD into the Greek legal order: “creative” or further confirmation of the EU press market’s fragmentation?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

As it introduces a new related/neighbouring right for press publishers (PPR), the provision has been placed in Section VII of L. 51, which awards a special neighbouring right to publishers of printed matter in relation to the typesetting and pagination format of the works published by them, and Art. 15 of the CDSMD. 51B (para.

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The IPKat EPO Boards of Appeal Year in Review 2023

The IPKat

To encompass and embody: Applying the abstract principles of G2/21 Applying G 2/21: Preliminary opinion from the referring Board of Appeal on post-filed evidence appeal (T 0116/18) UK divergence from the EPO on plausibility (Sandoz v BMS), Part 1: Is the "plausibility" test the same for both sufficiency and inventive step?

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