The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

US patent attorneys wishing to understand certain peculiarities of European patent drafting need look no further than the recent Board of Appeal decision in T 2171/21. However, the EPO has a particularly narrow definition of what it means for subject matter to have been “disclosed in the application as filed”.

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Patent Invention Patent Drafting Patent Application 111

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

A patent is a legal document that provides exclusive rights to inventors over others in making, using, and selling their inventions for usually 20 years from the date of filling the patent application. Who can file a patent application? There is a difference between the utility and design acts.

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Patent Inventor Invention Intellectual Property 105

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

. ” [ii] Accordingly, immunity from invalidity attacks for double patenting could be found for divisional applications if they were “forced” or filed in response to a unity of invention objection raised by the Examiner during the prosecution of the parent application. v Camco Inc, 2000 SCC 67, at paras.

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Patent Invention Patent Drafting Inventor 52

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

PatKat has decided to take a look to see if any of currently available tools can assist with patent drafting for life sciences. LLMs for patent drafting We are now awash with companies claiming to provide LLM software capable of drafting patent applications. So how did the Qatent tool perform?

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Patent Drafting Invention Patent Editing 59