IP and Legal Filings

MAY 10, 2024

If IPR is not understood in technology transfer process, sharing of knowledge and invention faces legal challenges. Licensing of IP is when an invention or IP rights owner transfers their rights to a licensee for their use, subject to the terms of the agreement. The offices are established for movement of innovation from lab to market.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Market dynamics in the health and innovation space are making the biotech and life sciences sector an industry to watch out for. Since living cells and products of nature are often involved in these inventions, clarity regarding patent eligibility is becoming more important. [This post has been co-authored with Rahul Bajaj.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 14, 2023

When used in a marketing context, the brand has two primary goals: first, to represent the company in public to create maximum awareness and recognition for the organization and its business proposition. For a marketer, a brand is what represents the values of a company and aims to create awareness and trust.

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The IPKat

MARCH 29, 2024

The patent was found novel and inventive on the grounds that the efficacy of the drug in the claimed subpopulation could not be derived, or be reasonably expected, in view of the press releases. Furthermore [.] The clinical trial assessed empagliflozin in patients with mild, moderate or severe impairment.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2023

PatentNext Summary: Software and computer-implemented inventions (CII) have experienced explosive growth in recent years. There has been explosive growth in software and computer-implemented inventions (CII), including in specialized areas such as Artificial Intelligence. Ryan Phelan is a registered U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 17, 2023

Introduction ABU DHABI GLOBAL MARKET lodged an appeal against the rejection of its trademark registration application contending that the rejection by the Trade Marks Registry was unfounded both in fact and in law, while the respondent centered their objections around the use of a geographical name and the lack of distinctiveness.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

AUGUST 16, 2021

Invention-Con 2021: Capitalizing on Your Intellectual Property. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) free online Invention-Con 2021: Capitalizing on your intellectual property, coming August 18-20. Marketing, manufacturing, and building a competitive advantage around your ideas. August 16, 2021. ASowah@doc.gov. And much more.

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IP Tech Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Pilot Program was implemented in May 2020 to encourage independent inventors and small businesses to bring important and possibly life-saving COVID related inventions to market more quickly, as explained in the USPTO’s announcement at that time.

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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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IAM Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With the addition of the 'missing Lego block', the open source licensing group has nearly all service providers on board

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IAM Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With the addition of the 'missing Lego block', the open source licensing group has nearly all service providers on board

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IPilogue

JULY 29, 2022

Big-name celebrities like Halsey and Florence Welch of the indie rock band Florence and the Machine have taken to TikTok to discuss their discontent with the new marketing approach of creating viral TikTok audios as promotion. Michelle Mao is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 30, 2024

This post attempts to critically analyse the relevance of difference in the purported function of the invention and prior art to determine non-obviousness in identifying the inventive step. ” The invention aimed to simplify the communication of sensor data to applications by converting raw sensor data into lightweight messages.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Wright brothers did not build commercial aviation, and yet commercial aviation was born thanks to the Wright brothers’ invention. Patent licensing and technology transfer is a cornerstone of modern economies, where the efficiencies of collaboration and division of labor do not require firms to be vertically integrated.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 16, 2021

These two largest services merged their platforms a couple of years ago, which influenced the taxi market in Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and several other Commonwealth of Independent States countries. These mobile services have significantly expanded the market, transferring most of Kazakhstanis from public transport to taxis.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

As he explained, “Accelerating examination of COVID-19-related patent applications, without additional fees, will permit such innovators to bring important and possibly life-saving treatments to market more quickly.”. Prioritized examination allows an application to be advanced out of turn and accorded special status for examination.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 17, 2023

G1/23 – EPO Enlarged Board of Appeals of the EPO “available” (referral from T 0438/19) - Under which circumstances can the public prior use of a product constitute prior art for novelty or inventive step[s], specifically if the composition or internal structure of the product can only be analysed and or reproduced with difficulty?

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Trading Secrets

MARCH 15, 2024

The Core Issue at Hand This case centers around the America Invents Act (AIA) and whether a product’s prior sale by the patent applicant can disqualify the patenting of the method used to produce said product. They then filed for a patent more than a year after Ace-K hit the market. v ITC, 22-1827 (Fed. Plot twist!

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Patently-O

AUGUST 17, 2023

The court has repeatedly held that such a reference is only anticipatory if a person of skill would have immediately envisaged the invention now being claimed. The second issue of importance is as another data point in the forest-trees anticipation analysis in situations where the prior art discloses thousands of potential embodiments.

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Kashishipr

JULY 20, 2022

Although this may sound quite encouraging and motivating for those with original ideas, many famous brands out there are accused and widely recognized for being copycats in the market and, unfortunately, making a lot of money. The stories feature on Instagram is the same as that of its rival and competitor in the market, Snapchat.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A recent case from the Boards of Appeal ( T 1349/19 ) rejected a lack of inventive step argument that the skilled person would follow an obvious series of steps at arrive at the invention. The case provides some clear language rejecting taking an approach to inventive step that is based on knowledge of the destination.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2022

.” As he explained, “Accelerating examination of COVID-19-related patent applications, without additional fees, will permit such innovators to bring important and possibly life-saving treatments to market more quickly.”

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IIPRD

MAY 9, 2024

This has led to the introduction of intellectual property rights which are a set of exclusionary rights as it excludes the world from enjoying a set of rights arising out an invention or creation, except the inventor or creator. These laws establish the backbone of safeguarding all the rights accrued to various kinds of intellectual property.

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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? According to the regulator, the drug’s patent could be a blocking patent unlawfully used to prevent competing products’ entry into the market.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2024

The Core Issue at Hand This case centers around the America Invents Act (AIA) and whether a product’s prior sale by the patent applicant can disqualify the patenting of the method used to produce said product. They then filed for a patent more than a year after Ace-K hit the market. v ITC, 22-1827 (Fed. Plot twist!

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2024

The Core Issue at Hand This case centers around the America Invents Act (AIA) and whether a product’s prior sale by the patent applicant can disqualify the patenting of the method used to produce said product. They then filed for a patent more than a year after Ace-K hit the market. v ITC, 22-1827 (Fed. Plot twist!

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Many of our strategies reflect the startup-nature of our inventions, where we are constantly working on the product-market-fit. We may need several bites at the apple to effectively protect our invention. We use many different strategies during patent prosecution.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Claims that a defendant invented a product to fill a gap in the market, and the resulting implications regarding the innovativeness of a defendant’s product, constitute puffery rather than an assertion of fact.”

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Pilot Program was implemented in May 2020 to encourage independent inventors and small businesses to bring important and possibly life-saving COVID related inventions to market more quickly, as explained in the USPTO’s announcement at that time.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

These initiatives are poised to bring substantial changes to the dynamics of academic-industry collaborations as inventions are brought to market. In recent months, two U.S.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 19, 2024

Pornhub parent Aylo Holdings urged a Texas federal court to toss a lawsuit from WellcomeMat LLC claiming the adult entertainment giant is unlawfully using its technology for uploading videos to an online platform, saying the real estate video marketing company's patent doesn't disclose an "inventive concept" and thus is invalid.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 30, 2023

As a large pharmaceutical consumer market, China's position in the layout of pharmaceutical patents has been valued. Inventions such as medical use, drug crystalline form and the like, have been paid more attention in the patent layout as playing a great role in continuing the patent protection of the original drug.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Thus, a legal safeguard should be provided to inventors for their inventions to keep their interest in science alive. What are the biotechnological inventions? This leads them to think about protecting their inventions from unauthorized use. Patents provide protection to innovations as well as commercialization of inventions.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Furthermore, the Federal Circuit found the declaration was conclusory and failed to establish that Allgenesis had any concrete plans to develop and bring to market a nintedanib treatment for pterygium. Accordingly, the Federal Circuit concluded that Allgenesis failed to show an injury in fact based on potential infringement liability.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 3, 2024

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday upheld an arbitrator's $258,000 judgment against an invention-marketing company, but declined to award the nearly $50,000 in additional attorney fees requested by the prevailing Texas-based inventor because his lawyers hadn't submitted billing records for the amount, which was nearly two-thirds of the fees (..)

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 28, 2021

FTO is a pretty simple and straightforward concept, which implies that at a given point in time, no Intellectual Property (IP) from any third party is infringed upon a given product or service in a given market or geography. To be specific, any aspect of the invention not covered in the claims isn’t considered to be protected.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Companies often hire employees to develop new products, improve processes, create new technologies, and develop new markets. But how should employers address the ownership of intellectual property created by their employees in the course of their employment?

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