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IP Due Diligence: Issues in M&A Transactions

Traverse Legal Blog

A main focus in most M&A transactions involves conducting intellectual property (IP) due diligence, including patent due diligence in order to properly assess risk involved in the potential transaction. All too often these issues come up for the first time in due diligence.

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Role And Significance Of IP Due-Diligence In M&A Transactions In India

IIPRD

Hence, more and more mergers and acquisitions involve intellectual property which gives rise to the demand for Intellectual Property (IP) Due-Diligence at the time of Mergers, Acquisitions, etc. Evolving Significance of IP Due-Diligence for an M&A Transaction. of such businesses.

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Declaratory Judgment: How to Fight a Patent Infringement Claim When Stakes Are High

Patent Trademark Blog

Accused infringers cannot file DJ lawsuits simply because they want to challenge particular patents. What if the patent owner sent a friendly letter inviting you to consider taking a license? Does an invitation to license a patent rise to the level of controversy? How strong are the infringement contentions?

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Your Patent Attorney Retired: How to Transfer Patent Files

Patent Trademark Blog

If you filed any foreign patent applications, make sure to get the contact information of the foreign associate for each case. Find Out Which Patent Applications Are Related. For example, let’s say a pending US utility nonprovisional patent application is related to an international PCT application.

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Methods of Commercializing Intellectual Property – Part I

Intepat

Further, FTO analyses are aimed at evaluating whether a particular intellectual property, specifically patents, can be exploited commercially without infringing any third party rights, thereby helping in avoiding infringement allegations. Licensing of patents is more complex owing to the technical information involved.

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What to Know About the USPTO’s Duty of Candor Guidance Regarding FDA Submissions

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

In view of this notice, life sciences companies should consider involving patent counsel in the review of relevant FDA submissions for possible inconsistencies with PTO filings and determination of the appropriate course of action where material inconsistencies are found to exist. What This Means for Life Sciences Patent Applicants.

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Community Property and Patent Ownership

Patently-O

For the first element, all of the patent applications, provisional and non-provisional, filed during the marriage are properly presumed to be sole management community property. The defendant got a license from the non-inventor, now-ex, spouse and argued as a result it could not infringe. Enovsys LLC v. Nextel Commun.,