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Legal Lessons from Holiday Lights: Clarity in Patent Drafting

LexBlog IP

” This broad language leaves room for competitors to sidestep infringement by designing lights for specific tree sizes and/or lights that do not completely cover a tree. When drafting claims, it is important to keep an eye out for infringement and consider whether someone could easily design around the element.

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Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.C. is Seeking a Patent / Intellectual Property Attorney

IP Watchdog

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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REMINDER: Tryouts for the USPTO National Patent Application Drafting Competition Team – DEADLINE TOMORROW

IPilogue

Students interested in trying out for Osgoode’s PADC team must submit answers to our patent drafting skills exercise in a Word document with your name in the file name to iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca. About the Patent Drafting Competition. We look forward to another great year at the Patent Drafting Competition!

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CALL FOR TRYOUTS – USPTO National Patent Application Drafting Competition

IPilogue

Students interested in trying out for Osgoode’s PADC team must submit answers to our patent drafting skills exercise by 3 pm on Friday, October 22, 2021. About the Patent Drafting Competition. We look forward to another great year at the Patent Drafting Competition!

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CALL FOR TRYOUTS – USPTO National Patent Application Drafting Competition

IPilogue

Students interested in trying out for Osgoode’s PADC team must submit answers to our patent drafting skills exercise by 3 pm on Friday, September 23, 2022. About the National Patent Application Drafting Competition. Each member of the team will receive up to 3 credits for participating in the competition.

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EPO Decisions – The Not So Holy Grail?

SpicyIP

These concerns were raised in a meeting with the IPQC, and Kluwer Patent Blog subsequently highlighted the critical letter sent by Beat Weibel, the chief IP counsel of Siemens, to the EPO. – The patent system needs complete searches and substantive examination for functioning well. In Agfa NV & Anr.

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Patent – a shield for modern biotechnology

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Apart from the first inventor, an assignee of the inventor and the legal representative of the deceased inventor can also apply for patents in accordance with Indian Patent Act sec 2(1)ab and sec2(1)k. Who can provide for patent rights? Indian Patent Act restricts the patent acts of new plant breed.

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