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The 13th Public Commission Meeting – an AI Study About Online Scams and, Yes, Another Policy Statement

LexBlog IP

Sometimes the FTC will do reports on its own initiative (such as the recently announced pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) study ), but other times, Congress will, through legislation, require the Commission to prepare a report on a specific topic, and that is often done as part of the agency appropriation process.

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[Guest post] Book review: ‘Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law: 20 Years of the IPKat’

The IPKat

Only two of the 43 areas deal with American copyright law (probably a correct percentage given the EU focus of IPKat), but this small number should have disqualified me from writing a book review where there are 41 out of 43 articles on topics I know nothing about, including the entire fields of trade mark and patent law. 881, 892 (2019).

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Biosimilars 2021 Year in Review

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

The letter discusses the BPCIA and the Hatch-Waxman Act frameworks (for small molecule drugs) and sets forth several topics for USPTO’s consideration and further discussion: engagement between FDA and USPTO to increase efficiencies, possible misuse of the patent system (e.g., 51 at 20, 24, 28.). On the same day that Alvotech hf. 9, 2022). [2]