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Confidentiality restrictions around clinical trials and prior public use (T 0670/20)

The IPKat

The recent Board of Appeal decision in T 0670/20 considered whether patients in a clinical trial were under conditions of confidentiality. The question became whether the patients could be considered members of the public, and whether their participation in the clinical trial therefore constituted prior public use of the formulation.

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

Trading Secrets

Disclosure of Patentable Ideas To figure out if disclosing invention details to ChatGPT is a public disclosure under patent law, we need to see if it can be categorized as a description in a printed publication, public use, or public sale. enablement). enablement). Thankfully, the U.S.

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Never too late: if you missed the IPKat last week

The IPKat

The High Court dealt with the royalty payments, costs, confidentiality of certain documents after trial, and permission to appeal. Rose reported that the EPO has launched a user consultation on the implementation of Board of Appeal oral proceedings by videoconference.

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

LexBlog IP

Disclosure of Patentable Ideas To figure out if disclosing invention details to ChatGPT is a public disclosure under patent law, we need to see if it can be categorized as a description in a printed publication, public use, or public sale. enablement). enablement). Thankfully, the U.S.

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

LexBlog IP

Disclosure of Patentable Ideas To figure out if disclosing invention details to ChatGPT is a public disclosure under patent law, we need to see if it can be categorized as a description in a printed publication, public use, or public sale. enablement). enablement). Thankfully, the U.S.

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Intellectual Property Rights and Federally Funded Research

LexBlog IP

However, if the Contractor fails to report any inventions to the contracting officer within two months of preparing the corresponding patent applications, the Contractor risks losing ownership of those inventions. Identification of any publication, sale, offer for sale, or public use of the subject invention, or publication of the invention.

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Biosimilars 2020 Year in Review

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Reported Discount at Launch. Despite the low number of approvals in 2020, FDA has reported numerous biosimilars-related submissions in the pipeline at FDA for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, [2] including seven original biosimilar BLA submissions in FY 2020. Biosimilars Approved as of 2020. Biosimilar Drug. Reference Product. FDA Approval Date.