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Board of Appeal case law against the description amendment requirement starts to mount up (T 2194/19)

The IPKat

It is almost a year since publication of T 1989/18 made waves in the European patent community with its finding that the requirement to amend the description in line with the claims lacked legal basis. Since T 1989/18 we have had a number of Board of Appeal decisions on both sides, finding either legal basis or a lack of legal basis for the description amendment requirement.

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Prosecution Delays and Patent Term Adjustment on the Rise Again

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch. In the standard case, a US utility patent will expire 20 years from its effective filing date. But, there are several circumstances that might alter the patent term. As a consequence, only a minority of patents fit the standard. One circumstance involves unduly delayed patent prosecution that results in “patent term adjustment” or PTA under 35 U.S.C. 154(b).

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Toward a sustainable, inclusive, growing future: The role of business

McKinsey Operations

To make the world as sustainable and inclusive as we hope, a certain kind of economic growth will be necessary—and companies will play a vital role in generating it.

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Meet the Bloggers X

Likelihood of Confusion

No, LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® won’t be at The INTA this year and so I won’t be co-sponsoring Meet the Bloggers X. Actually, the second doesn’t necessarily follow from the first, The post Meet the Bloggers X appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Pirate IPTV: Fines For Suppliers & Users as Govt. Plans Pre-Approval System

TorrentFreak

When the United States Trade Representative puts a country on the Watch List , it sends a message that protecting U.S rightsholders should become a priority. Brazil is one of the countries on the list and it’s trying to make amends. A criminal complaint against stream-ripping site Yout, for example, mirrors the RIAA’s legal work against the site’s operator in the U.S.

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Minerals Separation v. Hyde, 242 U.S. 261 (1916)

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch. Almost all the briefs filed in Amgen v. Sanofi cite to the 1916 Supreme Court decision in Minerals Separation v. Hyde , 242 U.S. 261 (1916). It is an interesting little case that primarily focuses on obviousness (i.e., “invention”), but also touches upon inventorship and sufficiency of disclosure. In Amgen , the Supreme Court is tasked with reconsidering the law of enablement, and so it is this final issue that is most relevant.

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STADA and Xbrane Announce Approval of Ranibizumab Biosimilar in Europe

LexBlog IP

On November 11, 2022, STADA Arzneimittel AG (“STADA”) and Xbrane Biopharma AB (“Xbrane”) announced that the European Commission has granted a marketing authorization for XIMLUCI (ranibizumab), a biosimilar to Genentech’s LUCENTIS. XIMLUCI is an anti-VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) for the treatment of retinal vascular disorders and has been approved in the European Union (EU) for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), diabetic mac

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Moderna takes hit in mRNA battles; Sisvel launches IoT patent pool; Nokia bags UK win in Oppo spat; WiLAN Q3 revenues; part-time UPC judges trigger concerns; plus much more

IAM Magazine

Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-11-12

Barry Sookman

Policy Design Principles to Maximize People-Centered Benefits of Digital Identity [link] 2022-11-06. Court Sides With LinkedIn in Data Scraping Lawsuit vs. hiQ Labs [link] 2022-11-06. Global Value of Music Copyright jumps 18% to a record high of $39.6bn in 2021: could it have been even higher? [link] 2022-11-06. Federal Court Breaks Silence: Declares Sonos did not Infringe Google’s Noise Cancelling Technology Patent [link] 2022-11-06.

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