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. In modern biology research, inventors come from various disciplines such as pharmaceutical, environmental, agricultural, and dairy, and all of them are involved in improving the quality of life.

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Patent Trademark Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

According to the USPTO , the design allowance rate is approximately 83%. A high rate of approval does not guarantee that your design patent application will be approved. Some prior art rejections may be based on a prior sale or public disclosure made by the inventors themselves.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

To mitigate potential conflicts of interest and to improve the public’s understanding of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) procedures, the agency has recently made various amendments to its rules relating to the conduct of registered patent attorneys and agents.

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Patent Trademark Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Individual inventor applicants and academic institutions qualify as small entity for reduced USPTO patent filing fees. Here is a breakdown of the initial filing fees if you are providing acceptable design drawings from the priority design application: $770 flat rate attorney fee, including priority claim; plus.

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Patent Trademark Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

For example, an inventor affidavit might make sense in certain situations. Let’s assume, however, that the second patent firm obtains allowances with fewer Office Actions on average than the first firm. That being said, we do offer flat rate costs for patent and trademark applications here.

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IPilogue

JULY 26, 2021

Callegari explained that while we have gender-stratified information on PCT patent filings, the same cannot be said for trademarks or other forms of IP. The worldwide gender-name dictionary generated the current pattern by disaggregating inventors’ names by gender. The IDEA Act 2021 has been proposed to allow the U.S.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

However, because the environment within a law firm can be unfriendly to non-Caucasian, non-cisgender male, non-heterosexual lawyers, people who identify as such tend to leave legal practice at higher rates. More must be done to remedy inequities within the day-to-day practices to create an equitable legal environment.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 12, 2023

It includes patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Obtaining patents or trademarks for their inventions or brand names can prevent others from copying or imitating their innovations, protecting those ideas and giving them a competitive edge. Let’s delve into the specific reasons why.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The ACLU points to the fact that there is a high affirmance rate of subject matter eligibility decisions made by district courts and the PTAB to argue that current patent eligibility jurisprudence is relatively clear. Neither the Senators’ letter nor the RFI provides any basis for the allegation that the law is inconsistent or unclear.”

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Patent Trademark Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Unlike filing trademark and copyright applications, deadlines for filing patents are much less forgiving. Our firm charges a flat rate of $1,500 for a utility patentability search. Typically, a design application has a smoother path to an allowance so the total costs will range from $2,000 to $3,000 if there are no rejections.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

Yet, we all know there is no guarantee that a utility patent will ultimately be allowed. You need your patent or trademark registered, and you need it now. Does your team include an inventor at least 65 years old? Does the new patent attorney have trademark experience? We bill flat rate patents and fixed fee trademarks.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

This allowed the model to generate seemingly “natural,” or at least satisfactory output, e.g., a “story about otters” in the hypothetical training example. Further, OpenAI allows commercial use of material output by ChatGPT. See also PatentNext’s article Can an Artificial Intelligence (AI) be an Inventor?

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

When nearly 7 out of 8 design filings will be allowed , why spend money on a search? That being said, a prototype can be especially helpful in filing a design application because it will force you, the inventor, to specify certain details, such as the proportions, etc. There is one exception for design filings.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

Patent and Trademark Office. The National Science Foundation diligently tracks the participation rates of women, racial and ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering, but it does not routinely collect statistics on LGBTQ participation.[2]. Department of Commerce and commissioner of the U.S. Mentorship.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In calendar year (CY) 2021, the total number of post-grant petitions in the biopharma space, which we define as petitions involving United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Technology Center 1600 patents, was 100, which accounted for ~7% of all petitions filed. Developments in the Biopharma Sector. In University of Strathclyde v.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2022

Tonko (D-NY) and Bob Gibbs (R-OH) introduced the Star Rating for Biosimilars Act (H.R. Like similar legislation in other states, SB4 allows for interchangeable biosimilars to be substituted at the pharmacy once approved by FDA and requires the pharmacy to inform patients and physicians of a substitution. Hospira (20-cv-00561 D.

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