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Guest Post by Prof. Contreras: How the ‘Patent Eligibility Restoration Act’ Would Harm American Businesses and Endanger Global Health by Reintroducing ‘Pathogen Patents’

Patently-O

The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act should be modified to prevent the reintroduction of patents on naturally-occurring genomic sequences that are isolated and purified in the lab, a change that will enable international pathogen research to continue while interfering little with private incentives to develop new biomedical technologies.

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 17 Attorneys to Principal 

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Newly promoted principals for 2022 are: Michael Ballanco focuses his practice on all aspects of patent infringement matters at the trial and appellate level. and foreign patent prosecution and counseling in the technology areas of bioinformatics, mobile communications, e-commerce, database, and data processing.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 18- March 24)

SpicyIP

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of posts on the new Patent (Amendment) Rules, and some thoughts on safeguards which can be used by intermediaries to prevent trademark infringement. Some Concerns about the Amendment Process to Key Patent Levers: A “Captured” Patent Office?

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Federal Circuit Panel Holds Hatch-Waxman Venue Under the Second Prong of § 1400(b) is Based on Actions Related to ANDA Submission

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Last Thursday, a Federal Circuit panel issued a decision applying a narrow reading of the patent venue statute, 28 U.S.C. Under the compromise embodied in the Hatch-Waxman Act, [4] submitting an ANDA with a so-called “Paragraph IV certification” pursuant to Section 505(j) [5] is an act of patent infringement. [6]

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 17- January 22)

SpicyIP

, here are our summaries for our blog posts, 15 case summaries and other national and international IP developments. Read SpicyIP intern Gaurangi ‘s post on this development. Other Posts COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement? Important IP cases that we’re missing out on? Especially from other High Courts?

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India’s High Court of Delhi issues guidance on SEP licensing that seeks to harmonize decisions in other countries (Intex v. Ericsson)

LexBlog IP

This is an important decision to review in understanding licensing and litigation of international SEP portfolios. There is some dispute whether an SEP owner is required to negotiate license to individual patents, rather than licensing an entire SEP portfolio. This decision indicates they should.

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U.S. Supreme Court Fixes Ninth Circuit’s Test for Mistakes in Copyright Registrations—Unicolors v. H&M (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

“Unicolors’s business model is to create artwork, copyright it, print the artwork on fabric, and market the designed fabrics to garment manufacturers.” A Google search turns up three different pairs of designs with differing degrees of similarity. A jury agreed, finding that H&M had willfully infringed Unicolors’s fabric design.