Patently-O

AUGUST 22, 2022

For our patent law course today, the students read the Justice O’Connor unanimous opinion in Bonito Boats, Inc. The Florida courts had refused to enforce the law because it conflicted with Federal Patent Law. The Florida courts had refused to enforce the law because it conflicted with Federal Patent Law.

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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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The IPKat

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Board of Appeal finds no legal basis for the requirement to amend the description in line with the claims (T1989/18) (26 Dec 2021) Can amending the description to summarize the prior art add matter to the patent application as filed? (T Whilst this year has seen some truly remarkable advances in machine learning technology (e.g.

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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).

Invention 52

Invention Confidentiality Privacy Public Use 52

The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2023

PatKat reviewing the year It is time once more for the IPKat patent year in review! Pour yourself a glass of mulled wine, curl up with your favourite feline and catch-up on your EPO case law. It thus appears that the majority of Boards of Appeal are prepared to take a pragmatic approach with regards to the mandatory use of ViCo. (T

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Utility patents are for functional inventions. Design patents protect the look of something functional, regardless of whether the functional aspects are new. Because of this, a popular use of design patents is to protect the outside of common consumer products. Design patent protection can be a strong enforcement tool.

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