IP and Legal Filings
MAY 10, 2024
INTRODUCTION Technology transfer is a way for innovation. While facilitating technology transfer, it is significant to look at how IP rights play a role. It’s the first important step towards protecting owner’s rights and its lawful public use. Licensing agreements are the most common ways to initiate technology transfer.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Two such pressures that are frequently at odds with each other are the need to adequately protect the intellectual property that will be the basis for future revenue and investment, and the need to bring such revenue and investment into the business to allow for continued technology development and commercialization.
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Patently-O
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
” The invention was not yet “ready for patenting” and therefore its public use was not disqualifying. .” ” The invention was not yet “ready for patenting” and therefore its public use was not disqualifying. It was also pitched to a potential acquirer. Microsoft Corp. ,
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).
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).
Intellectual Property Brief
MARCH 23, 2023
The public display of simply a prototype of a patentable technology for marketing purposes, over a year prior to its patenting, is enough to rule that the technology is in public use, ready for patenting, and is thus invalid. Minerva Surgical Inc. filed a patent for a medical device called the Aurora.
Patently-O
AUGUST 22, 2022
And, once a patent expires (or is refused or forfeited by public use), the balance allows “free access to copy whatever the federal patent and copyright laws leave in the public domain.” ” Compco Corp. Day–Brite Lighting, Inc. , Hotchkiss v. Greenwood , 11 How. 248 (1851). 35 U.S.C. § Bonito Boats.
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