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Pickleball: A Booming Sport With a Boom in Trademark Filings

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video Pickleball: A Boom in Trademark Filings If you haven’t played pickleball yet, you’ve certainly heard about it. Although it was invented a couple of decades ago, ever since the pandemic in 2020 its popularity has boomed. In 2021, there were 80.

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How long does U.S. patent and trademark prosecution take? (2021 edition)

IP Spotlight

The USPTO recently released its FY 2021 Performance and Accountability Report , which contains detailed information about allowance rates, average pendency, and other statistics about its review of patent and trademark applications this year. months in FY 2021 (compared to 14.8 months in FY 2020). months to first action.

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How long does U.S. patent and trademark prosecution take? (2022 edition)

IP Spotlight

Each year, IP Spotlight updates our readers who often ask: how long does it take for a patent or trademark registration to grant? The Data Visualization Center includes several dashboards with detailed information about allowance rates, average pendency, and other statistics about patent and trademark proceedings. months; and.

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USPTO Tells Fed. Circ. AIA Allows Gene-Editing Interference

IP Law 360

Patent and Trademark Office has urged the Federal Circuit to uphold an interference decision invalidating five SNIPR Technologies Ltd. patents related to gene-editing technology, saying SNIPR's argument that the America Invents Act prevents that outcome reads the law too narrowly.

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Nobel Prize Winners of CRISPR/Cas9 Lose Decade Long Patent Battle to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

IPilogue

Doudna for “the development of a method for genome editing” otherwise known as CRISPR gene editing. Charpentier and Doudna were not the rightful owners of the CRISPR-Cas9 patent, concluding that the gene editing technology belonged to Dr. Feng Zheng and her team of scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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Announcing the Winners of the 2nd Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on IP Law!

SpicyIP

Following on from the success of last year’s inaugural edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on IP Law, on May 14 th , 2021 we announced the 2 nd edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on the occasion of Shamnad ‘s 45 th birth anniversary. A photograph of Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer. And the winners are: 1.

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What is a straight continuation application?

Patent Trademark Blog

According to MPEP § 201.07 , a continuation is an application for the invention(s) disclosed in a prior-filed copending nonprovisional application, international application designating the US (e.g., What if you simply want to edit the specification without adding drawings? appeared first on Patent Trademark Blog | IP Q&A.