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Public use == “accessible to the public.”

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch Bottom line in this new Minerva case — file your patent application before bringing a new product to a trade show. Minerva’s ‘208 patent claims a device for endometrial ablation and includes a 2011 priority filing date. 2007), the Federal Circuit seemed to have ruled that public use requires use.

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Confidentiality restrictions around clinical trials and prior public use (T 0670/20)

The IPKat

The patent was for a tablet formulation that had been given to patients in a clinical trial conducted before the patent had been filed. The question became whether the patients could be considered members of the public, and whether their participation in the clinical trial therefore constituted prior public use of the formulation.

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Never too late: if you missed the IPKat last week

The IPKat

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. We can’t believe it’s already February. Here’s what you missed last week.

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Intellectual Property Rights and Federally Funded Research

LexBlog IP

However, if the Contractor fails to report any inventions to the contracting officer within two months of preparing the corresponding patent applications, the Contractor risks losing ownership of those inventions. The nations in which the Contractor seeks to file the patent application. media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-63579507143ea2268{display:

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The difference between the credibility and the unambiguous disclosure of a therapeutic effect (T 0209/22)

The IPKat

The recent Board of Appeal case T 0209/22 is yet another decision demonstrating the relatively permissive approach in Europe to medical use inventions. The patent related to the medical use of a combination of known drugs. The patent did not include any patient data for the drug combination.

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Federal Contracting; Contractor Disclosure to Funding Agencies and Agency March-in Rights

LexBlog IP

The act also establishes the rights for businesses and nonprofits to patent and commercialize inventions developed within the scope of the funding agreement. First, contractors have a duty of disclosure to their funding agency that is separate from the duty of disclosure for patent applications. Standard patent rights clauses. . §

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

Trading Secrets

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).