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Legal Lessons from Holiday Lights: Clarity in Patent Drafting

LexBlog IP

7,784,961 Before sledding into the patent’s technicalities, the inventor of this Christmas cheer utilized a lesser-known path under U.S. patent law. 122(b)(2)(B)(i), the patent application was kept under wraps, avoiding publication until patent issuance. Under 35 U.S.C.

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REMINDER: Tryouts for the USPTO National Patent Application Drafting Competition Team – DEADLINE TOMORROW

IPilogue

Students interested in trying out for Osgoode’s PADC team must submit answers to our patent drafting skills exercise in a Word document with your name in the file name to iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca. About the Patent Drafting Competition. We look forward to another great year at the Patent Drafting Competition!

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CALL FOR TRYOUTS – USPTO National Patent Application Drafting Competition

IPilogue

Students interested in trying out for Osgoode’s PADC team must submit answers to our patent drafting skills exercise by 3 pm on Friday, October 22, 2021. About the Patent Drafting Competition. We look forward to another great year at the Patent Drafting Competition!

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Patent – a shield for modern biotechnology

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Government organizations such as Indian patent offices (India), United States patents and trademark offices (USA), European patent offices (European Union), and Australian patent offices (Australia) have the authority and facilities to provide patent rights.

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ChatGPT and Intellectual Property (IP) related Topics

LexBlog IP

ChatGPT responded with the following, which for the most part is accurate, but gets details such as the “founding date” wrong: Marshall Gerstein is a law firm based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in intellectual property law. No, according to various patent offices and patent laws around the world.

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Full Patent Protection vs. a Provisional Patent Application

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

If a provisional application is not followed by a non-provisional patent application claiming priority to the provisional patent application, the disclosure to the patent office will remain unpublished and confidential. For this reason, filing dates are extremely important in patent law.

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How long does it take to get a patent in 2021? And what about COVID-19?

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

On the other hand, if the USPTO does not issue a Notice of Allowance, (5) other strategies may be sought in the pursuit of a patent. Overall, the amount of time it takes to acquire a patent varies based on the field of technology and on the type of application, which may be a provisional, design, utility, or plant application.