IP Law 360

MAY 15, 2024

and European patent decisions — concerning the effect of disclosures in clinical trials on the patentability of products — offers guidance on good practice for companies dealing with public use issues and prior art documents in these commercially important jurisdictions, say lawyers at Finnegan. A comparison of recent U.S.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JANUARY 12, 2024

The copyright for Mickey’s debut appearance in the 1928 short film, “Steamboat Willie,” finally expired, allowing a specific portrayal of the beloved character to become available for public use. This momentous occasion follows a prolonged journey shaped by numerous extensions and revisions of copyright laws.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 15, 2023

Section 102 of the Patent Act holds that an invention may not be patented if it was in public use before the effective filing date of the patented invention. The public use bar to patenting is triggered if the invention is both “in public use” and “ready for patenting.” By: Cooley LLP

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 10, 2024

It’s the first important step towards protecting owner’s rights and its lawful public use. Well, it helps in commercialisation of the invention by allowing its public use. While facilitating technology transfer, it is significant to look at how IP rights play a role. Why must an owner of IP license it?

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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).

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 22, 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. § Hologic, Inc., 2021-2246] (February 15, 2023), the Federal Circuit affirmed summary judgment that the asserted claims of U.S. By: Harness IP

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IPilogue

MARCH 27, 2023

Serena Nath is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. Mickey Mouse is protected as Disney’s property because it is a registered trademark.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Patents Benjamin unpacked a patent royalties dispute between the University of Oxford and a student inventor, where the English High Court explained which categories of students should be treated as consumers for the purposes of consumer protection law, and why.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Addressing the public use bar of pre-America-Invents-Act (AIA) 35 U.S.C. § Minerva Surgical, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Novelty: An invention or one very similar to it must already be patented, described in someone else’s patent or patent application, described in a printed publication, on sale, or in public use before the application date (with some exceptions granting the inventor a grace period of one year prior to the application date).

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This month the Federal Circuit decided a case involving whether the display of a flowering plant constitutes an invalidating prior public use. It’s not surprising to hear talk of flowers in February, but it is unusual when that discussion is in a Federal Circuit opinion. By: Weintraub Tobin

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The IPKat

MAY 15, 2023

Boards of Appeal case law on this question currently conflicts ( IPKat ). Current Boards of Appeal case law conflicts on whether a Board of Appeal may review findings of fact from first instance (Case Law of the Boards of Appeal (CLBA), III-G, 4.2 ). The evidence of prior use included a statement from a Ms Simon.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 17, 2022

patent law. Although Deepsouth was barred from using Laitram’s patented inventions throughout the United States , Deepsouth began selling its deveining machine to folks outside of the US in a partially constructed form. Patent Law Amendments Act of 1984, Pub. We know that U.S. patents are territorially limited.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

102 modified pre-AIA law regarding the sale of products made with a secret process. Under the pre-AIA law, a patentee’s sale of an unpatented product made with a secret process can create an on-sale bar to the patentability of the process. 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) (pre-AIA). 35 U.S.C. § 102(a)(1) (AIA)(emphasis added). 35 U.S.C. §

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43(B)log

JULY 1, 2022

Pennsylvania right of publicity: Pennsylvania protects the name or likeness of any natural person that has commercial value and is used for any commercial or advertising purpose without written consent. Relevant case law holds that the statute is violated only when the name or likeness is used to “directly promote a product or service.”

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Ninth Circuit on Monday solidified a trademark win by former Politico reporters who started Punchbowl News, ruling that the publication's use of a Boston party and event planning startup's "Punchbowl" trademark is beyond the Lanham Act's scope.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

§102 modified pre-AIA law regarding the sale of products made with a secret process. Under the pre-AIA law, a patentee’s sale of an unpatented product made with a secret process can create an on-sale bar to the patentability of the process. ” 35 U.S.C. § § 102(b) (pre-AIA). ” 35 U.S.C. §

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IPilogue

MARCH 27, 2023

Serena Nath is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. The post Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain in 2024 appeared first on IPOsgoode.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 13, 2021

The 1836 Patent Act added the caveat that no patent should issue on an invention previously “described in any printed publication.” ” That language has carried through the various major patent law overhauls and continues as a prominent aspect of 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1).

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 23, 2024

Leeds in his research article titled By Eminent Domain Or Some Other Name: A Tribal Perspective On Taking Land published in Tulsa Law Review mentions how eminent domain has affected the Tribal population of India.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The disclosure shall also identify any publication, on sale or public use of the invention and whether a manuscript describing the invention has been submitted for publication and, if so, whether it has been accepted for publication at the time of disclosure. Patent rights under federally funded research.

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Patently-O

MARCH 4, 2024

Although the statute does not distinguish between sales by the patentee and those by an unaffiliated third party, Federal Circuit case law does make a distinction. patent law with the rest of the world, where sale of a product does typically not preclude later patenting of the process. Compare D.L. Auld Company v. ”).

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Trading Secrets

APRIL 18, 2023

Disclosure of Patentable Ideas To figure out if disclosing invention details to ChatGPT is a public disclosure under patent law, we need to see if it can be categorized as a description in a printed publication, public use, or public sale. enablement).

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Garrigues Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

In an earlier blog, we discussed “prior public use” as grounds for opposing the grant of European patents (see here ). In addition, a third party’s use of an invention before its registration by another is also relevant to assess patent infringement. What are the requirements for the recognition of a prior use right?

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Artificial intelligence is not breaking patent law: EPO publishes DABUS decision (J 8/20) ST.26 The Guidelines are, however, often out of step with current Boards of Appeal case law, and lag behind even the most uncontroversial of case law developments. 26 ( IPKat ).

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2023

Disclosure of Patentable Ideas To figure out if disclosing invention details to ChatGPT is a public disclosure under patent law, we need to see if it can be categorized as a description in a printed publication, public use, or public sale. enablement).

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Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

In that case, the Court found that Google’s use of Java API naming conventions in its Android operating system was fair use under copyright law. Because its fair use decision decided the case, the court did not rule separately on whether the API was even copyrightable in the first place. Oracle America, Inc. ,

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 8, 2022

b) an industrial design that is contrary to public order or morality. Any person who carries out any of the following acts shall be punishable by imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years, a fine not exceeding two thousand rials Omani or both: (a) imitates an industrial design registered under this Law. (b)

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2023

Disclosure of Patentable Ideas To figure out if disclosing invention details to ChatGPT is a public disclosure under patent law, we need to see if it can be categorized as a description in a printed publication, public use, or public sale. enablement).

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The TTABlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Genericness: The Board found that the word “sneaker(s)” is generic for retail services featuring sneakers because it is a term that the relevant public uses or understands to refer to a key aspect or subcategory of the genus, which Nike did dispute. The Board's case law is a bit confused on this issue. In re Nike, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 19, 2023

Also, when holding a trademark registration in Colombia, the obligation arises for its owner to use the trademark in commerce, beginning three (3) years from the date when registration was granted. – To avoid cancellation the trademark must have been used by the owner or a third authorized party.

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Larson & Larson

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

It’s the legal term for ‘thing that is exactly like my thing that was in the public before I made my thing.’ The term covers anything that was sold in public, used publicly, described in a magazine or similar publication, or already has a patent on file with the patent office.

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The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

law) and purported prior trademark use? Instead, cognizant that such varietal denominations would eventually become the generic designations upon the expiration of plant patent and PVP certificate protection, Applicant risked the integrity of its IFG trademark by using IFG to name new varietals. PVP certificates under U.S.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

NAACP—these courts very clearly say that trademark law applies to commercial speech, defined as it is in First Amendment case law, and not to noncommercial speech. NAACP—these courts very clearly say that trademark law applies to commercial speech, defined as it is in First Amendment case law, and not to noncommercial speech.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In the proceedings, Wenman had to demonstrate that she had generated enough goodwill to sustain a claim in passing off through her use and/or reference to her own ‘Archangel Alchemy’ signs prior to 7 September 2019 (the date HHJ Clarke determined was the first public use of ‘ARCHANGEL ALCHEMY’ by Stone).

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TorrentFreak

JULY 13, 2023

In common with similar businesses elsewhere in Europe, powerful Italian football clubs, broadcasters, and their powerful business associates in government, concluded long ago that only a draconian internet-blocking system supported by tough new law could force fans away from wallet-friendly pirate IPTV services and towards legal platforms.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Identification of any publication, sale, offer for sale, or public use of the subject invention, or publication of the invention. If the subject invention was submitted for publication, it should also indicate whether the invention was accepted for publication. media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-6357950714f9a5776{display:

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