IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Wednesday issued a precedential opinion clarifying the requirements for the disclosure of technology that is ready for patenting at a public event to qualify as being “in public use” for purposes of the pre-America Invents Act (AIA) public use bar under 35 USC 102(b).

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Garrigues Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

What is the right of prior use or “pre-use”? 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.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Bear in mind that in patent infringement litigation the accused infringer (e.g., public use or on-sale events) and grounds for invalidation (e.g., obviousness-type double patenting or lack of enablement) that are not available in IPR proceedings. Mylan) is able to rely on prior art (e.g.,

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Patently-O

MARCH 4, 2024

In 2016, over a year after it began selling Ace-K, Celanese filed patent applications on its heretofore secret Ace-K process. Celanese sued Jinhe for patent infringement at the International Trade Commission (ITC). Chisum, Chisum on Patents § 6.02[5][b] When competitor Anhui Jinhe began importing Ace-K into the U.S.,

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Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

Copyright infringement appeals are ordinarily not heard by the Federal Circuit, but in a case of what appears to be appellate-forum shopping, SAS had also included patent infringement allegations that they eventually stopped pursuing. Judge Gilstrap dismissed the copyright claims — holding that the software was unprotectable.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 15, 2021

Anticipation by Prior Publication and Lack of Novelty. The defendant argued that CTPR was disclosed and published in US’424, US’357 and EP’508 patents which are Markush type patents and have priority dates even prior to IN’978.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

And, it goes like this–the relevant concept in the United States is that a person shall “ no[t] be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” See Eagleview Tech, Inc. Xactware Solutions, Inc., 3d 505, 510 (D.N.J.

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