IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

the Supreme Court held that an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party who is obligated to keep the invention confidential can create an on-sale bar under AIA §102(a). The issue at the heart of ALJ Cheney’s decision was whether the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act’s (AIA) amendments to the on-sale bar in 35 U.S.C.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

the Supreme Court held that an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party who is obligated to keep the invention confidential can create an on-sale bar under AIA §102(a). In its 2018 decision in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. , ” 35 U.S.C. § § 102(b) (pre-AIA).

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants patents to inventions every day. Important requirements must be met in order for an invention to be patented. Usefulness: This is a low bar to meet, fortunately. It doesn’t mean the invention has to provide some important use.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

So, believing that the state’s usurpation of his right to control use of the copyrighted work essentially took from the photographer a valuable property right, the photographer made a takings claim, seeking just compensation for the state’s alleged taking, essentially an assertion of eminent domain over the intellectual property.

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This month the Federal Circuit decided a case involving whether the display of a flowering plant constitutes an invalidating prior public use. A patent applicant is not entitled to a patent when the claimed invention was “in public use… more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the United States.”

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The domain of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) , especially after the adoption of the Uruguay Round’s resultant, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) , has led to the adoption of an expanded understanding of IPRs in contemporary fields to strengthen the legal position of the rights holders.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This month the Federal Circuit decided a case involving whether the display of a flowering plant constitutes an invalidating prior public use. ” A patent applicant is not entitled to a patent when the claimed invention was “in public use. But in that prior case, Delano Farms Co. § 161.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Utility patents are for functional inventions. Because of this, a popular use of design patents is to protect the outside of common consumer products. Moreover, protection under other forms of intellectual property could last far longer than a design patent. What’s more common than the written word?

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 15, 2021

The next argument raised by the defendant was a challenge based on Section 64(1)(a) as per which a patent can be revoked where the invention has been claimed in a patent of an earlier priority date. Anticipation by Prior Publication and Lack of Novelty. Balance of Convenience, Irreparable Harm, and Public Interest.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The parties are currently engaged in supplemental expert discovery on Hospira and Pfizer’s on-sale bar and public use defenses, and the court has resolved two discovery disputes this year stemming from these issues. 9,643,997, which is directed to protein purification. A jury trial is scheduled for May 17, 2021. Hospira , 944 F.3d

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

Jyotpreet is a third-year law student from the National Law University, Delhi who is interested in Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law and looks to study their interaction with each other. which requires patented products to be significantly manufactured in the US until it is commercially infeasible.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How should the USPTO facilitate an applicant’s submission of prior art that is not accessible in the Patents End-to-End Search system ( g., “on sale” or prior public use)? 112, and whether the claims do not cover the same invention as a related application? Would a benchmark ( g.,

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43(B)log

AUGUST 12, 2022

The Macroeconomics of Intellectual Property Eric E Johnson Most of us think about microeconomics with L&E: supply and demand curve, allocating production/consumption. Are the higher pleasures infinitely superior and always trump any quantity of lower? Or are they a lot better? Or are they just different?

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