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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A federal jury in Delaware has found that General Electric's old lighting business and a company it has since unloaded to private equity owe a combined $2 million to a Utah company that owns a patent covering a type of LED light issued to a dental diode laser inventor in 2002.

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Olartemoure Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

METHOD OF MAKING A HEART-SHAPED DIAMOND US6434805B2 Inventor: Ami Haimoff Assignee: L I D Ltd Date of Patent: Aug. 20, 2002 Diamond rings are the perfect gift to give to celebrate love. HEART-SHAPED CHOCOLATE USD449147S1 Inventor: Verlooy Herwig Assignee: Individual Date of Patent: Oct. A tech-savvy love potion waiting for you!

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Intepat

APRIL 20, 2022

However, even after fulfilling these requirements, an additional requirement is to be fulfilled by the inventor/applicant and that is of ‘enablement’. A related concept to the enablement requirement is that of the ‘best mode’ requirement.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 9, 2023

to have David Howard added as an inventor to Hormel’s U.S. More than a decade later in 2018, the Bacon Patent was issued naming four inventors that assigned rights to Hormel. In spring 2018, HIP sued Hormel in the District of Delaware alleging that Howard was a sole or joint inventor of the Bacon Patent. Efforts by HIP, Inc.

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IIPRD

MAY 9, 2024

This has led to the introduction of intellectual property rights which are a set of exclusionary rights as it excludes the world from enjoying a set of rights arising out an invention or creation, except the inventor or creator. These laws establish the backbone of safeguarding all the rights accrued to various kinds of intellectual property.

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Olartemoure Blog

JULY 15, 2023

THE INVENTION OF THE ICE CREAM CONE US2061260A Inventor: Francis W. CONE EVOLUTION Ice cream cone drip guard US20040096553A1 Inventor: James E. 20, 2002 Invented in 2002 by James E. Motorized Ice Cream Cone US5971829A Inventor: Richard B. Turnbull Date: Nov. 17, 1936 Francis W. Lynch Date: Nov. Hartman Date: Mar.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 20, 2022

At the end of 2020, the USPTO published a report finding an exponential increase in the number of patent application filings from 2002 to 2018. In the last quarter of 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reported that patent filings for Artificial Intelligence (AI) related inventions more than doubled from 2002 to 2018.

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In 2002, the Federal Trade Commission, after an extensive inquiry, found out that over 75% of applications by generic pharmaceutical manufacturers were in some way or other involved in litigation initiated by the original patent holders. Patents are the most important way in which inventors can protect their inventions.

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Patently-O

MAY 2, 2022

2022) focuses on the classic patent law question of whether the inventor’s pre-filing sales activity serve to bar the patent from issuing. The Facts : On February 7, 2000 , the inventor’s company (MCE) offered to sell and install a butane-blending system to Equilon. 2002) (offer to make a “remote database object.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Continued Debates over AI as an Inventor. Around the world, patent registrars grappled with patent applications that credit artificial intelligence software as the inventor. The Supreme Court of Canada last considered the definition of “inventor” in 2002, but has yet to consider whether it would include non-human entities.

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IIPRD

APRIL 28, 2023

While the goal of IPR law is to preserve inventors’ rights over their creations, the goal of competition law is to maintain effective market competition by prohibiting anti-competitive acts and the misuse of dominant positions. IPR law’s goal has been changed from defending individual inventors to promoting new ideas. [2]

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The IPKat

JANUARY 9, 2022

The written description requirement stipulates that a patent specification should sufficiently describe the claimed invention such that a skilled person would be convinced that the inventor had possession of the claimed subject matter at the filing date. cancer) cells ( Singh et al. ). As their expert argued, "[scFvs ] all do the same thing.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2023

Regarding the ’101 patent, Sandoz argued that the district court erred in holding that the ’515 provisional application inherently disclosed the crystalline Form B of apremilast and thus that it did not provide the necessary written description support to entitle the patent to a March 2002 priority date. Holding(s) No.

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Intepat

APRIL 20, 2022

However, even after fulfilling these requirements, an additional requirement is to be fulfilled by the inventor/applicant, and that is ‘enablement.’ At the same time, the best mode criterion is a subjective and factual inquiry pertinent to the state of the inventor’s mind. ’ Enablement requirements.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 15, 2022

The court noted potential situations of no-estoppel: (1) assignment made prior to the inventor even seeing the patent document; (2) a change in the law that renders the patent invalid; and (3) after the assignment, the new owner changes the scope of the patent claims that goes “beyond what the assignor intended to claim as patentable.”

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 26, 2021

In 2002, in light of two progressive Supreme Court pronouncements ( Mohini Jain v. As the single judge eloquently noted in the DU photocopy case, the purpose of copyright is to increase the: “harvest of knowledge, motivate the creative activity of authors and inventors in order to benefit the public.” State of Karnataka and Ors.

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Intepat

MAY 4, 2023

When an inventor is granted exclusive rights over their inventions for a specific period of time, it provides a return on their investment in terms of time, resources and capital. The idea that a specific invention will allow the inventor to reap benefits has a direct effect on incentivising inventors to create and invent more.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Intellectual property rights provide a negative right in other words a monopoly right to the creator or Inventor over their creation or Invention. However the patent act is silent regarding what would constitute the “restrain to trade” but Section 4 of the competition act, 2002 defines “limits or restricts”.

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Patently-O

APRIL 21, 2023

At the district court, the named inventor, Dr. Schafer, testified that the stereomerically pure apremilast reduces the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (“TNFα”), the factor that is linked to psoriasis, 20 times more effectively than the previous patent.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Patents Act of 1970 focuses on patents, granting exclusive rights to inventors for new inventions or processes. This legislative intent was highlighted in the Joint Parliamentary Committee’s views during the introduction of the Patents (Amendment) Act, 2002. It is given for 60 years. It is given for 20 years.

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Conference presentations, presentation slides, and posters can all be prior art, whether they come from an inventor or someone else, and can prevent you from patenting your inventions. 2020 FC 621 , a poster was presented at a conference in Baltimore in 2002, 18 years previous. In Biogen Canada Inc. Taro Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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Patently-O

MAY 17, 2024

2002) for the proposition that “the preamble of a Jepson claim is limiting, by necessity, because it defines the scope of the claim.” Jepson Claims : In its decision, the ARP relied heavily Federal Circuit precedent interpreting 35 U.S.C. § Regarding Jepson claims, the panel cited Rowe v. Dror , 112 F.3d 3d 473 (Fed. 3d 1022 (Fed.

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SpicyIP

JULY 25, 2023

The Competition Act promotes competition in the market by restricting anti-competitive agreements and abuse of market position whereas, the Patents Act promotes innovation by incentivising the inventor with an exclusivity for a specific term, which is subjected to certain qualifiers.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Intellectual property rights (hereinafter referred to as ‘IPR’) are the legal rights granted to the inventor or creator to safeguard his or her invention or production for a certain period of time. These legal rights grant the inventor, creator, or assignee the only right to fully exploit his invention/creation for a given period.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Initially, laws relating to patents in India did not cover inventions related to biotechnology until an amendment in 2002 acknowledged biotechnological, biochemical and microbiological processes as having the potential to be patented.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Other than Article 31, Article 7 speaks on how a balance is to be sought, between the individual benefits of the inventor and the needs of the users of that technological knowledge, the same idea being iterated under Section 83 of the Indian Patents Act. Pertinent Aspects of CL Provisions.

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Intepat

APRIL 19, 2023

As a result, it is apparent that patent law offers a broader scope of protection in contrast to copyright law, which is primarily relied upon by inventors in this field. In 2002, the Indian Patent Office issued guidelines on the patentability of CRIs.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In its fact findings, the court noted that PMC and its inventors prosecuted their patent applications “serially.” After the jury trial in March, 2021, the jury found unanimously that Apple infringed at least one of the claims 13, 14, 15, or 16 of the ’091 Patent. However, the notice of abandonment was withdrawn by the PTO.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

On appeal, the Federal Circuit explained that “[t]he test for the sufficiency of the written description is whether the disclosure of the application … reasonably conveys to those skilled in the art that the inventor had possession of the claimed subject matter as of the filing date.” ” Id. ” Id. ” Id.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Intellectual Property system is designed in such a way that the creation of a balanced ground is ensured where interests of the inventors and the public are reconciled so that the innovative and creative energies can be developed and operated in an encouraging environment.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 12, 2023

2002)] What the saying really means is that a patent applicant can give a word, term, or phrase its own definition, and that definition should be applied to that application or later patent. Vitronics Corp. CCS Fitness, Inc. Brunswick Corp., 3d 1359, 1366 (Fed.

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Patently-O

JULY 6, 2022

Even if there is no prior art, the USPTO still bars a patentee from obtaining a separate patent claiming an obvious variation of already-issued claims held by the patentee/inventor. 9,927,796 was filed back in 2002 — claiming priority to a 2001 provisional application. Gass’s U.S. 2016 Decision ]. 35 U.S.C. §

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Rules supersede the Biological Diversity Rules, 2004, and have been created supplementing the 2023 amendment to the Biological Diversity Act, 2002. The notice has cited the recent amendments to the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 and Biological Diversity Rules, 2004 as the reason to revise the 2014 guidelines.

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