SpicyIP

MARCH 7, 2024

This high-profile case revolves around allegations of patent infringement concerning two patents (“Suit Patents”), both relating to ‘Pertuzumab,’ a monoclonal antibody (Mab) biologic used in inhibiting tumor growth. Find it here.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2023

The Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) on Monday held a webinar featuring some big names in the IP world to clear up what the organization characterizes as misguided views on the use of Title 28 of the U.S. government statement of interest filed in a patent infringement suit against Moderna, Inc.’s patented invention.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 8, 2024

On January 5, 2024, in litigation between REGENXBIO and Sarepta Therapeutics, Judge Richard Andrews of the U.S. 10,526,617 (the ’617 Patent; licensed to REGENXBIO) is invalid as being directed to ineligible subject matter. A separate, related patent lawsuit filed by REGENXBIO and Penn against Sarepta and Catalent, Inc.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The agreement enabled the three parties involved to obtain Freedom to Operate (abbreviated as FTO) , thereby authorizing one another to use some of their respective patented technologies without worrying about Patent Infringement. Without any doubt, stepping into patent litigation can be uncertain, full of risks, and expensive.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The District of Delaware is renowned as a patent litigation hot spot, but the district sees its fair share of other IP litigation. Future litigants in the District of Delaware should be aware of potential arguments relating to non-infringing alternatives as they potentially relate to both patent and copyright damages.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The winds of a busy Belgian court term blows through the IPKat's wild ancestor's mane (c) Christopher Stothers 'Tis the season for a look at the cases that were in 2021 from around Europe and what they mean for the IP litigation themes in those jurisdictions now that the dust has settled in 2022. A new prohibition on double patenting?

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In Rovi Guides Inc v Videotron Ltd , the Federal Court of Canada invalided patents for interactive program guide (“IPG”) technology and clarified a reasonable royalty as the appropriate remedy had the patents been found valid and infringed. Rovi claimed that Videotron infringed four patents, which Videotron counterclaimed were invalid.

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IP Close Up

APRIL 30, 2024

Alan Nelson, a pioneering biomedical engineer and entrepreneur, shared his three-decades of experience with AI machine learning at the recent IP Awareness Summit. The science, Continue reading

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Patently-O

AUGUST 4, 2021

A world first – South Africa recently made headlines by granting a patent for ‘a food container based on fractal geometry’ to a non-human inventor, namely an artificial intelligence (AI) machine called DABUS. Each of these three jurisdictions found sufficient reasons in these formalities to reject DABUS’ patent applications.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Systemic-level studies and data regarding impact on investment and innovation, as detailed in Part II of this series, are not the only way to demonstrate the substantial harm that the current state of patent eligibility has inflicted on the U.S. innovation ecosystem.

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Trading Secrets

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The amendment adds a new Section 203-f to the Labor Law, which addresses the assignment of inventions made by employees. Instead, the language suggests that invention-assignment provisions in employment agreements executed on or after September 15, 2023, are unenforceable unless they comport with the new law.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

What if we adjust our initial filing patent cost to match your budget? Nearly every patent firm sets their own attorney’s fees and service rates. So we asked ourselves the following question: What can we do to make utility patents more affordable? What would make patents more accessible to potential clients?

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2024

GlaxoSmithKline filed a four-count civil action for patent infringement in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware late last week seeking damages for Pfizer and BioNTech’s infringing manufacture, use, sale and marketing of both the original “monovalent” and “bivalent” Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccines.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 27, 2023

patent system. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on “Discretionary Institution Practices, Petition Word-Count Limits, and Settlement Practices for America Invents Act Trial Proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board [PTAB]” was Tuesday, June 20.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Commissioner of Patents , case number VID 108 of 2021, in the Federal Court of Australia, an Australian Federal Judge became the first known jurist to rule that inventions developed by artificial intelligence can qualify for patent protection. In Thaler v. And, nothing in the Act dictates the contrary conclusion.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The amendment adds a new Section 203-f to the Labor Law, which addresses the assignment of inventions made by employees. Instead, the language suggests that invention-assignment provisions in employment agreements executed on or after September 15, 2023, are unenforceable unless they comport with the new law.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2023

Combining Multiple Inventions in an Single Patent Application @media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-640f87a71087f6782{display: However, is combining multiple related inventions into a single patent application worth the cost savings? important;}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-640f87a71087f6782{display:

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We have found, however, that it is often the slow-and-steady truth that wins the race in our deliberative justice system, which for patents has both administrative and judicial components. which reversed a Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal on patent ineligibility under 35 U.S.C. § Kollective Technology, Inc.,

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SpicyIP

MAY 10, 2023

Image from here On April 28, 2023, Justice Amit Bansal of the Delhi High Court passed three separate orders, all dealing with a similar issue- unclear, unreasoned orders from the Patent Office and the Trademark Registry (IP Offices) that rejected the patent/ trademark applications. Rosemount Inc.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A patent protects your intangible property from others’ use, but what happens when patent protection operates in a way that ensures no other innovators can build upon a patented invention? When IP and competition clashes, authorities will step in to regulate as demonstrated in a recent dawn raid.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

2023 FCA 168], a 3-0 decision, recently set aside the test on subject matter eligibility of computer-implemented inventions laid down by the Federal Court [2022 FC 923] last year. Benjamin Moore & Co.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 12, 2022

Federal Court patent litigation during the America Invents Act's first decade shows that enforced high-tech litigation awards for small- and medium-size high-tech companies are rare and the process isn't easier, and the Restoring America Invents Act under consideration does not move the system toward rebalancing, say attorneys at Mintz.

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IPilogue

MAY 31, 2022

Google’s contribution to the US patent system. Healthy patent systems can sometimes be described as a way to incentivize creative inventions, encourage building on existing ideas, and avoid frivolous litigation. Concern with the US patent system. Google also helped discover the License on Transfer Network.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 31, 2023

AI and IP Law: Podcast with Yuri Eliezer by Yuri L. Eliezer AI and Intellectual Property Law An Insightful Discussion with Yuri Eliezer The intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intellectual Property (IP) Law is becoming increasingly significant in the dynamic landscape of technology and innovation.

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IP Close Up

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Creative expression, like music, films and books, and inventions, that are supported copyrights and patents, impact thousands of businesses, millions of jobs and and our Continue reading

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IP Watchdog

JULY 15, 2022

Clearing the air on labyrinthine subject-matter eligibility standards for computer-implemented inventions (CIIs), a Canadian Federal Court last month revisited the issue in Benjamin Moore & Co. Attorney General of Canada, 2022 FC 923.

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IP Close Up

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The news in much of the inventing community is often doom and gloom, but for Stephen Key, a successful creator and entrepreneur, the opportunities faced Continue reading.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 9, 2022

What is at the core of invention? All inventions boil down to applying some natural law , but where is the line between natural law and invention? ” The most recent Supreme Court case which granted certiorari with regard to an “inventive concept” is Alice Corp. By: Banks Griffin. Axle & Mfg.

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IP Tech Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

One of the threshold requirements for obtaining a patent under U.S. law is that the invention is a “new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof…” In other words, the subject matter of the invention must be eligible for patenting. The Recent Decision.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

The grounds for the court’s decision was the definition of “inventor” under the Patents Act 1977 (the Act ) which requires the inventor of a patent to be a natural person. So for the moment, the position under the UK patent system is that AI is very much a tool rather than an autonomous agent in its own right.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 3, 2024

IP CloseUp, weekly perspective on intellectual property trends and business, broke through 392,000 views and 272,000 visits in 2023, on its way to 400,000 plus Continue reading

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Moderna and Pfizer battle’s over the inventive process of their respective mRNA COVID-19 vaccines revisit the negative associations of profit, monopolies, and optics in patent litigation. Moderna claimed that they had registered foundational mRNA patents between 2010 and 2016.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published updated guidance emphasizing a very flexible approach to determining obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § The guidelines are written for USPTO personnel but combined with the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP), they provide guidance to practitioners.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office's guidance on patents for inventions developed using artificial intelligence makes clear that help from the technology does not foreclose getting a patent, but sets standards that will spur litigation and create new obligations for attorneys, experts say.

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The IP Law Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

An inter partes review (IPR) is a procedure in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) whereby a U.S. patent can be challenged in the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Although a patent can be challenged in federal district court, an IPR is an expedited and less costly procedure than federal court litigation.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

But have you ever paused to wonder about the ingenious inventions that make your summer so unforgettable? Let’s dive into six patented ideas that have helped transform summer into the sunny delight we all treasure. The Bikini (Patent US169,867) Say ‘hello’ to the cheeky staple of summer – the bikini.

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IP.com

JULY 18, 2022

While the quality of your invention no doubt contributes to writing a successful patent, so does the quality of your application. The post Get Your Patent Application Right the First Time appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics. But like any legal document, this means checking off.

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