Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Thus, a legal safeguard should be provided to inventors for their inventions to keep their interest in science alive. In modern biology research, inventors come from various disciplines such as pharmaceutical, environmental, agricultural, and dairy, and all of them are involved in improving the quality of life.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Inventors and patent practitioners filing patent applications before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) may have an obligation to disclose if artificial intelligence (AI) is used in the innovation process. the Office is aware of and evaluates the teachings of all information material to patentability.”

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Patent Trademark Blog

JULY 30, 2021

What kinds of comments are useful in revising a draft patent application? So your patent attorney has send you a first draft of your utility patent application for your review. You’re not sure what to do, so you read my helpful tips on how to review a draft patent application.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In 2022, the Federal Circuit definitively ruled that artificial intelligence (AI) systems cannot be named inventors or co-inventors on patent applications, reinforcing the longstanding principle that only natural persons are eligible as inventors under the Patent Act.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 10, 2021

March 16, 2013 marked a watershed date in the practice of patent law as the effective date of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). Not surprisingly, there were a number of patent applications filed that bridged the March 16, 2013 AIA effective date.

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Patently-O

APRIL 30, 2024

Although documents are widely available today via our vast network of digital communications, there is also increasing junk in the system — documents making unsubstantiated claims that are effectively science fiction. ” Lidiya Mishchenko , Thank You for Not Publishing (Unexamined Patent Applications) , 47 B.Y.U.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JULY 25, 2023

Background Blue Gentian is an assignee of Berardi’s six patents involving a collapsible hose, where Berardi is the named inventor. Three months before filing the applications for the six patents, Ragner held a meeting to seek investors, which included Berardi.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Attribution: How Authorship Credit Contributes to the Gender Gap , allocation of credit on public-facing legal documents is not equitable. When the senior-most legal team member signs documents on behalf of their legal team, they are erasing the names of associates from the record. As detailed in my study, Ms.

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Patently-O

MAY 25, 2023

Under the AIA’s provisions, Itou would have been considered prior art, therefore preventing Teleflex’s patenting. The also case stands out as Itou was clearly the first inventor, but this evidence was not taken into account due both to arcane pre-AIA rules and due to the IPR process focusing only on the published patent documents.

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IP Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2021

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia addressed what it called a “core issue”—whether an artificial intelligence (AI) machine can be an “inventor” under the Patent Act. The Patent Applications. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft case, which held that a state could not be an inventor, and the Beech Aircraft Corp.

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Patently-O

APRIL 25, 2023

In certain instances, if the AI were human, it would be rightfully recognized as at least a joint inventor. This raises the question of whether it is appropriate to designate the human, who contributed to only a part of the invention and collaborated with the AI, as the sole inventor.

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Intepat

MAY 22, 2023

The second way, i.e. constructive reduction to practice, is when the inventor can explain to a person of ordinary skill in the art in sufficient detail so that they may make use of the invention without requiring undue experimentation. When an invention has reached the stage where it is reduced to practice, it is ready for patenting.

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More Than Your Mark

JULY 2, 2021

In the Minerva case, the Supreme Court required the lower court to explain whether the inventor’s promise not to challenge the validity of a first patent at the time of the assignment could be held against the inventor when challenging a later patent with claims that were broader than the ones involved in the patent assigned.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Establishing invention date requires determining when the inventor both conceived of the complete invention and then reduced it to practice. Conception occurs when an inventor forms a definite and permanent idea of the complete and operative invention in their mind.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 30, 2024

Background The appellant (Microsoft) filed a patent application on 27 February 2012 for an invention titled “Message Communication of Sensor and other Data.” ” The invention aimed to simplify the communication of sensor data to applications by converting raw sensor data into lightweight messages.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2022

Before we delve into understanding the concept of Patent Search , let us first make ourselves familiar with the definition of a patent. A patent refers to an exclusive right granted by the patent authority of a nation to the inventor or applicant of a unique invention. Types of Patent Search.

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SpicyIP

JULY 2, 2021

We’re pleased to carry an announcement from LexisNexis Intellectual Property that LexisNexis Reed Tech will continue to provide patent data and document management services to the USPTO for the next 10 years. patent grants and patent applications. The strength and vitality of the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

Its applications in the fields of natural language processing and text analysis have been well documented and have aroused great interest. Recently, the technology has even been used in the realm of intellectual property, with some having used it to draft patent applications.

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Garrigues Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) has accepted the possibility of submitting new evidence of the inventive step of a patent application or patent that has been granted during the grant and opposition procedures.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 18, 2023

The owner gets an exclusive right to use or sell for a specific time period as a legal right under the document which we refer throughout this paper as ‘patent’ The patent system is designed to encourage innovation by protecting the rights of inventors to their inventions. 3] In the case of V.B.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 25, 2022

Patents are composed of several different parts, each of which serves a particular purpose in securing the rights of an invention. Each component can provide information to the various stakeholders in the life of a patent. These stakeholders range from inventors, patent owners, licensees and patent examiners.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 23, 2022

The Patent Reexamination and Invalidation Department (PRID) of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) invalidated the CN Invention Patent No. within six months before the priority date of the ’987 patent), and all the inventors of the ’987 patent are also authors of the article.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 6, 2021

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia addressed what it called a “core issue”—whether an artificial intelligence (AI) machine can be an “inventor” under the Patent Act. The Patent Applications. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft case, which held that a state could not be an inventor, and the Beech Aircraft Corp.

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IP Intelligence

OCTOBER 5, 2021

On September 2, 2021, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia addressed what it called a “core issue”—whether an artificial intelligence (“AI”) machine can be an inventor under the Patent Act. The Patent Applications. case, which held that a corporation could not be an inventor.

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Patent Trademark Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

Should you own your patent as an individual or under your company? Startups frequently ask whether their patent should be owned by the company or the individual inventors. Why assign the patent to your company? That is why a patent application would never identify a company only.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 5, 2021

On September 2, 2021, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia addressed what it called a “core issue”—whether an artificial intelligence (“AI”) machine can be an inventor under the Patent Act. The Patent Applications. Procedural History. It cited to the Univ.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The AmeriKat instructing her computer overlord to come up with an invention which turns household objects into tuna Can machines be inventors? The US, the European Patent Office, and Australia all have considered this question. For his patent applications Dr Thaler replied ‘ by ownership of the creativity machine “DABUS” ’ ([6]).

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ideally, it is the responsibility of the Patent Office to check that every applicant wishing to obtain a patent registration is complying with the mandated rules and procedural formalities, and in case there are any lapses, the office must take appropriate measures.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 4, 2021

A world first – South Africa recently made headlines by granting a patent for ‘a food container based on fractal geometry’ to a non-human inventor, namely an artificial intelligence (AI) machine called DABUS. Each of these three jurisdictions found sufficient reasons in these formalities to reject DABUS’ patent applications.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 26, 2022

2:21-cv-00126-JRG-RSP) (not available on line for free from what I can see) addressed an accused infringer’s argument that the assignment of the patent-in-suit from the sole inventor (Afana) to the plaintiff, Mobile Equity, was ineffective, and so the patentee lacked standing. Walmart (Case No. Taylor Made Plastics, Inc.,

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IP Tech Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Patent owners will receive their eGrant patents from the USPTO’s online Patent Center on the day of issuance and will be able to print unlimited free copies of eGrant patents from USPTO’s online Patent Center. A sample of this new eGrant patent is available here.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 8, 2022

Patents in Oman. A patent is an exclusive right granted to the inventor against his invention, which may be a product or a process for a new way of doing something, provided that the patent owner discloses the technical information related to his invention in the patent publication. Patentability.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The Patent Trial and Appeal Board recently designated as precedential a portion of its Penumbra v. RapidPulse decision in that provides important guidance on the use of a provisional patent application’s filing date for 102(a)(2) prior art under the America Invents Act. Penumbra, Inc. RapidPulse, Inc.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 3, 2024

Concerns Expressed by the Delhi High Court As quick background, an appeal was filed by Man Trucks and Bus SA against the Controller’s order dated March 18, 202, rejecting its patent application for “Particle separator and method for separating particles of an exhaust stream of an internal combustion engine.”

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

A Patent is granted for any product or process invention for a period of 20 years. In order to apply for a patent, it is essential to file a patent application under the Chapter III of the Patent Act. The drafting of a patent application requires immense knowledge of science, law, and language.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

.” Patent owners will receive their eGrant patents from the USPTO’s online Patent Center on the day of issuance and will be able to print unlimited free copies of eGrant patents from USPTO’s online Patent Center. A sample of this new eGrant patent is available here.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 25, 2023

Background Blue Gentian is an assignee of Berardi’s six patents involving a collapsible hose, where Berardi is the named inventor. Three months before filing the applications for the six patents, Ragner held a meeting to seek investors, which included Berardi.

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