Patently-O

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Since there are no annual dues, CLE requirement, or even check-in many folks continue to stay on the rolls even though they are not practicing patent law. One example is my colleague Professor Royce Barondes who passed the patent bar exam prior to law school and then never practiced in the field. Series codes 16 and 17).

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

On October 17, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) formally adopted a revised patent law that makes significant changes to that country’s legal framework for pharmaceutical patents. signed in January that aimed to incorporate aspects of American patent law into the Chinese legal system.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Associate Director, Senior Counsel IP (Intellectual Property) supports Boehringer Ingelheim's Animal Health global biotech patent team by providing legal services to Clients in Boehringer Ingelheim’s Animal Health division, typically at the Executive Director level and below.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 5, 2023

by Dennis Crouch I’m excited that my next patent-law event will be the IP CLE Conference, January 7-10, 2024 at the Viewline in Snowmass, Colorado. This is one of my favorite events of the year because it mixes intellectual property law discussion with three days of skiing. Lots more here – check out the agenda.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2022

The applicant must have had the right to file the application at the time of the filing based on the law of the nation where the invention occurred. However, whether ownership actually transferred is also based on the law of the nation governing title to the invention. Thus, in this scenario, the patent can be revoked in its entirety.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 16, 2023

by Dennis Crouch Impact of Sonos on Patent Prosecution : The recent Sonos v. Google decision threatens to grind to a halt, or at least significantly restrict, a once-common patent prosecution strategy – keeping continuation applications pending for years to obtain new claims that cover marketplace developments.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2023

AI inventor case catch-up: Formalities, not patentability It is worth remembering that a patent application may be filed for any subject matter, provided the appropriate forms are filled in and the necessary fees paid. Final thoughts It is an adage of the legal profession that bad cases make bad law.

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Patent Trademark Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

What are warning signs that may warrant a change in your US patent agent or law firm? When it comes USPTO patent prosecution, many factors are out of the control of your US patent agent or attorney. So it makes sense to focus on what is within a patent attorney’s control.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Peter Lee: Patent Law’s Externality Asymmetry (Source: SSRN). New Job Postings on Patently-O: Daikin NA. Klarquist – Mechanical Patent Attorney/Agent. Ballard Spahr LLP – Electrical/Computer Engineering Patent Prosecution Associate. Sandeen: A Typology of Disclosure (Source: SSRN). Shay Glenn LLP.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Southern California Principal William Hunter was recognized as a 2020 Leader in Law by the San Diego Business Journal. He has garnered expertise in patent prosecution, freedom to operate studies, and the intersection of patent law with other areas of intellectual property.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 18, 2021

The IP Innovation Clinic, the first student-based clinic of its kind in Canada, is seeking law students from Osgoode Hall Law School to provide assistance to under-resourced inventors, entrepreneurs and start-up companies with their innovation and commercialization activities. IP Innovation Clinic Fellows (5-8 positions). 750 words).

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

2] The newly amended China Patent Law that took effect on June 01, 2021, extended the term of a design patent from 10 years to 15 years, which is in line with the minimum term of protection that a contracting party must provide is 15 years under the Hague System. 1] See [link]. [2] 2] See , [link].

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 15, 2021

For example, in Alice, the court stated “[t]he ‘abstract ideas’ category embodies the longstanding rule that an idea of itself is not patentable.” The Supreme Court further recognized that “laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas” are not patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

Membership includes companies, law firms, government personnel, and others who focus on related areas of law. Topics covered at this year’s event include the following: Patent prosecution. Law Practice management. Patent Law. Emerging technologies – the internet of things. Nominations.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 22, 2021

In fact, over the centuries, patent law has developed a formal approach for evaluating a product’s “innovation.” The FDA can find comfort knowing that the law, particularly intellectual property (IP) law, has already defined “innovation.” Intellectual Property Law: Cases & Materials 124 (5th ed. products.” [xix]

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Originally created in 2014 as a midwest competition, the Competition is today a national inter-law school competition designed to introduce law students to issues arising in United States patent law.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 7, 2021

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School. Here’s their announcement: The Elevate Your Prosecution 2021 conference on patent prosecution will be held in the Murano room of the Grand America in Salt Lake City on Friday, September 24 – Saturday, September 25. We are expecting and pending for 14 hours of Utah CLE.

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Patently-O

APRIL 17, 2024

Ana Santos Rutschman, From Myriad to Moderna: The Modern Pharmaceutical Company , Texas A&M University Journal of Property Law (2024) (forthcoming). John Howells, Ron D Katznelson, Freedom to Operate analysis as competitive necessity—the Selden automobile patent case revisited , Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2024).

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The IPKat

JANUARY 14, 2024

S ubmissions made in US patent prosecution may be highly influential for claim interpretation post-grant. Use of European file history in US claim interpretation The Federal Circuit applied the case law of Intel v Qualcomm (21 F.4th In the US, the principle of file wrapper estoppel is well established. 22-2042, Fed.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The rules, if passed, are surely a strong attempt towards fighting the long-standing issue of pendency in the Indian Patent Office, but concurrently it can also led to dilution of material safeguards within the Patent Act, which are in place to ensure that applicants/ patentees stick to their end of the patent bargain.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Originally created in 2014 as a midwest competition, the Competition is today a national inter-law school competition designed to introduce law students to issues arising in United States patent law.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 23, 2022

Apart from this, I will separately send out a drafting template for specification, and a complete patent prosecution file to the registrants on their email address. I have also recently published a book on Patent Law and Practice that is useful for exam takers.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Yet, an enigmatic question looms large: would the powers that be genuinely consider patenting such advanced technology, fully aware that patent applications might see the light of day? Meanwhile, the now-secret patent application remains a patent pariah: Neither the USPTO nor anyone else can cite it as prior art in a patent proceeding.

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Trading Secrets

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Yet, an enigmatic question looms large: would the powers that be genuinely consider patenting such advanced technology, fully aware that patent applications might see the light of day? Meanwhile, the now-secret patent application remains a patent pariah: Neither the USPTO nor anyone else can cite it as prior art in a patent proceeding.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Yet, an enigmatic question looms large: would the powers that be genuinely consider patenting such advanced technology, fully aware that patent applications might see the light of day? Meanwhile, the now-secret patent application remains a patent pariah: Neither the USPTO nor anyone else can cite it as prior art in a patent proceeding.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2022

The August 2019 announcement that two patent applications had been filed naming an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm as an inventor in the United States and a dozen other countries was regarded as disruptive and profound at the time. It was one of the hot topics in patent law during those last few months before the pandemic.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Originally created in 2014 as a midwest competition, the Competition is today a national inter-law school competition designed to introduce law students to issues arising in United States patent law.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

The goal was to provide better access to the patent system for a number of potential participants, such as individual inventors, small businesses, and underrepresented innovators. The UAIA was signed into law on December 29, 2022, and included in the U.S. government’s spending package, the Consolidated Appropriations Act , for 2023.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2023

With deep expertise in litigation and patent prosecution and counseling, the attorneys represent clients across a range of industries and in various legal venues. In addition, five attorneys served as judicial law clerks or interns. From 2019 to 2020, Ashley served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Kimberly A.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

As a result, owners of Russian patents from the affected countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the European Union, should not expect to be able to enforce their patent rights in Russia in the near term.

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SpicyIP

JULY 25, 2021

Though the report gives some word space to ‘public interest’ and similar concepts, the overall approach seems to be a very pro-industry one, with academia and civil society stakeholders not even being consulted, even though corporate trade groups’ and law firms’ views were heard (see para 2, introduction).

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SpicyIP

APRIL 7, 2024

Prathibha Sivasubramanian is a law researcher working with TWN. She has been working in the field of access to medicines, patents and IP for more than a decade. She has been working on patent oppositions and was involved in patent challenges on key drugs including the Gleevec-Novartis case.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 23, 2024

Although obviousness has long been the central feature of patent prosecution, it has seen a tremendous resurgence in US patent law over the past decade. If the Court grants review, this case offers an opportunity to resolve both new and longstanding divergence in Federal Circuit obviousness decisions.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

As a result, owners of Russian patents from the affected countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the European Union, should not expect to be able to enforce their patent rights in Russia in the near term.

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More Than Your Mark

AUGUST 13, 2021

Utility patents provide exclusionary rights for 20 years from their earliest effective filing date; design patents last 15 years from the date they issue. The post Form versus Function – Protecting Products with Design and Utility Patents appeared first on Patent Law Blog. Protecting Your Products.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

Yashna is a fifth-year law student at UILS, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law. However, he also stated that the government was not considering bringing a law or regulating the growth of artificial intelligence in the country. Basheer and here for a post by Prof. Arul Scaria).

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Chinese Utility Model and Patent Prosecution. Unlike invention patent applications, there is no substantial examination of utility models. When Applicants are unsure whether to file a utility model or invention patent application, the best practice is always to consider dual filings. John’s Profile.

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