Invention Inventor Public Use Technology 
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
9,186,208 on surgical devices for a procedure called endometrial ablation were anticipated under the public use bar of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § The Federal Circuit then pointed out that at the time of the public use, the technology was “ready for patenting.” § 102(b).
Patently-O
AUGUST 22, 2022
From their inception, the federal patent laws have embodied a careful balance between the need to promote innovation and the recognition that imitation and refinement through imitation are both necessary to invention itself and the very lifeblood of a competitive economy. ” Compco Corp. See Kewanee Oil Co. Bicron Corp. , 470 (1974).
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LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 3, 2022
The act also establishes the rights for businesses and nonprofits to patent and commercialize inventions developed within the scope of the funding agreement. In exchange for the funding agreement, contractors must disclose any invention conceived or reduced to practice under the funding agreement to the funding agency.
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).
The IPKat
DECEMBER 24, 2022
Whilst this year has seen some truly remarkable advances in machine learning technology (e.g. However, whilst the DABUS patent applications have come to the end of the road in most major jurisdictions, including at the EPO and in the US ( IPKat ) the UK Supreme Court has now accepted the appeal from Dr Thaler's team.
LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 24, 2022
However, if the Contractor fails to report any inventions to the contracting officer within two months of preparing the corresponding patent applications, the Contractor risks losing ownership of those inventions. The inventor of the invention and the corresponding contract number that the agreement was conceived under.
The IPKat
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Another source of confusion is the divergent approaches of the UK courts and the EPO with respect to the test for the evidence standard in sufficiency and inventive step analysis. Plausibility demystified - a review of EPO case law before G 2/21 G 2/21: Is the technical effect embodied by the invention as originally disclosed?
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