TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2025

The sentencing doesn’t come as a surprise, as Kanda pleaded guilty to three charges; violating the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and Fraud Act 2006.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This case is an appellate review of the district court’s findings regarding patent obviousness and priority date. Amgen also owns three patents — the ’638, ’101, and ’541 patents — covering Otezla. Issues Is the ’638 patent invalid as obvious given objective indicia of non-obviousness? Both Amgen and Sandoz appealed.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Lots of the new learning in patent law over the past decade has focused on patent eligibility. 321 (1971) (antitrust – patent pools – waiver of defenses); MedImmune, Inc. 313 (1971) (non-mutual issue preclusion in patent cases); Zenith Radio Corp. 100 (1969) (antitrust – patent pools); Holmes Group, Inc.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

However, this 2002 decision did not define whether AI technology can be an inventor. The two creators listed DABUS as the inventor on two applications for patents for the inventions of a light beacon and a food container. On appeal, Judge Brinkema agreed that Thaler and Abbott could not list DABUS as the inventor on a patent.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Recently, AI technology once again exceeded the legal community’s expectations by filing a patent for its invention of interlocking food containers. Under patent law, it is the general expectation that inventors are humans, not robots. Europe, Australia, and South Africa, only Australia and South Africa granted this patent.

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The IPKat

MARCH 12, 2025

A Kat awaiting weekly IP updates Designs Katfriend Henning Hartwig reviewed the interpretation of Articles 6 and 14 of Regulation 6/2002 (CDR). Marcel Pemsel analysed two recent decisions from the General Court and the German Patent Court concerning applications for invalidity of an (almost) identical EU trade mark, Sophienwald.

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Olartemoure Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Get to know a bit more about these patents that have added a touch of creativity and technology to the season of love. 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.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 27, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a draft Request for Comments (RFC) today seeking public feedback “on the current state of the experimental use exception jurisprudence and whether legislative action should be considered to enact a statutory experimental use exception.” According to the RFC, since the U.S.

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The evergreening of patents is a common element of pharmaceutical patents. The evergreening of patents is a common element of pharmaceutical patents. The most crucial method that global medicine enterprises use is drug evergreening of patents.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 30, 2021

The COVID vaccines do not genetically modify your DNA, but Juno’s patented CAR T-Cell therapy certainly does. The patent claims a nucleic acid polymer (DNA/RNA) that encodes for a particular “chimeric T cell receptor.” But, the patent does not actually disclose the DNA sequence of such a binding element.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 20, 2022

PatentNext Summary: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Application filings continue their explosive growth trend at the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO). 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. This trend has continued.

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IP Law 360

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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Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Artificial intelligence is changing industry and society, and metrics at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reflect its impact. In a recent publication, the USPTO indicated that from 2002 to 2018 the share of all patent applications relating to artificial intelligence grew from 9% to approximately 16%. See Alice Corp.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

10 of Design Regulation 6/2002, the scope of the protection conferred by a Community design shall extend to ‘any design which does not produce on the informed user a different overall impression’. Regulation 6/2002 does not define, however, what an ‘informed user’ is. This approach was later set in stone in para.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2022

8(1) Regulation 6/2002, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (OLG Düsseldorf) sent a referral to the CJEU on just this issue ( C-684/21 ). 8(1) Regulation 6/2002. One of the two questions at issue in the case was the role that patent documentation plays in establishing the technical functionality of the features of a design.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It is a common misconception, particularly among multinational businesses, that the European design protection system is nearly identical to the design patent system in the United States. In fact, this is not the case: The EU design system has significant advantages as well as certain disadvantages compared to the US system.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 11, 2022

We recently came across two decisions by the Indian Patent Office (IPO) in which patent claim applications concerning two nicotine delivery devices were rejected on the ground of the same being affected by section 3(b) of the Indian Patents Act, 1970. Section 3(i) bars the patenting of treatment processes.

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Intepat

APRIL 20, 2022

To be granted a patent, an invention by the applicant must be novel, non-obvious, and must be such that can be manufactured or used in industry. Besides these basic, requirements an invention must also not fall under the criteria of non-patentable subject matter as discussed in Sections 3, 4, and 5 of the Patents Act, 1970 (“ Act ”).

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 23, 2024

Looking at Traditional Knowledge and Patents: The MHC recently upheld the Controller’s rejection of a patent application for being based on Panchagavya, a form of Traditional Knowledge. Section 3(p) prohibits granting patents based on the claimed invention/process containing TK directly or in effect.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 30, 2023

Types of IPR Basically, there are four types of IPR Patent Trademarks Copyrights Trademark and Metaverse Trademark is the visual symbol that differentiate between trademarked goods and services from each other. Patent and Metaverse Over the past ten years, there have been an increasing number of metaverse-related patent filings.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 1, 2021

The Report focuses on reviewing the working of the Patents Act since its 2005 amendment that brought the Indian legislation in compliance with the TRIPS Agreement. A significant portion of the Report is dedicated to suggesting changes to the Patents Act, albeit without much justification on why these changes are needed.

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Olartemoure Blog

JULY 15, 2023

Turnbull, from the Turnbull Cone & Machine Company, obtained a patent for this technology in 1936. 20, 2002 Invented in 2002 by James E. 20, 2002 Invented in 2002 by James E. The cone had tabs looking inward that prevented the rotation of the ice cream, making it easy and fun to eat. Lynch Date: Nov.

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IPilogue

JUNE 2, 2022

Reversing what seemed like a victory for supporters of AI-owned intellectual property, the full bench of the Federal Court of Australia has confirmed the majority view of the world: only human inventors can own patent rights to their creations. Previously, IPilogue reported that Australia has granted patent ownership to an AI inventor.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2022

When can/not a Patent Application be Divided? In either of these cases the applicant would naturally be desirous of covering his invention which is disclosed in the specification already filed but which is excluded from the earlier complete specification, by filing a further application and obtain a patent therefor.

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SpicyIP

JULY 25, 2023

Image from sketchplanations [Long Post ahead] Who wins in a conflict between the Competition Act and the Patents Act? Clearly, both the Competition Act and the Patents Act are special Acts, governing specific but intertwining subject matters. That’s been the central bone of contention in two big disputes for almost a decade now.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 10, 2023

In light of the upcoming WIPO Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge, Prashant Reddy brings us a post highlighting India’s sub-par experience with its own Biological Diversity Act, 2002. These activities included publishing papers, filing of patent applications or where research results were shared.

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Patently-O

JUNE 21, 2024

agreeing that the asserted claims are directed to patent ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § The patents at issue were directed to methods of facilitating remote gambling activity using devises equipped with GPS. Claim 2 of the US10255755 (2002 priority date), was the most discussed claim in the case. Beteiro, LLC v.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Patents set themselves apart from other IP rights as inventions are often composed of multiple physical components or steps in a method, which does not necessarily have to exist or be performed at the same time and place. The traditional notion that patents are territorial rights is, however, under considerable stress.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 10, 2023

of the Patents Cooperation Treaty Regulations (a provision that provides for condonation of delay by a period of one month with respect to the submission of national phase patent application) in the petitioner’s favour. The petitioner approached the High Court against the decision of the Controller of Patents. But he did not.

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IIPRD

MARCH 21, 2024

IPRs are a set of statutory rights protected under the Indian Copyrights Act of 1957, the Patents Act of 1970, the Trademarks Act of 1999, trade secrets, or sui generis protection. Articles 40 and 30 of the TRIPS Agreement address limited exceptions to patent rights and anti-competitive activities in contractual licensing, respectively.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 3, 2025

, hosts Michael Snyder and Joseph Gushue are joined by Jason Lott, Managing Attorney for Trademark Customer Outreach at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), to explore the evolving landscape of trademark scams in the digital age. While clever con artist movies like Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Oceans Eleven (2001) may make us.

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IIPRD

MAY 9, 2024

However, the population and their necessities as well as demands have increased manifold which has culminated into a need to regularize invention by bilateral or multilateral collaborations in order to drive innovation and help the masses in increasing their access to latest technological developments along with preventing monopolization of patents.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

21, 2023) , the case addresses the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“PTAB’s”) authority to issue a Final Written Decision in a post grant review (“PGR”) after the prescribed statutory deadline. 9,693,961 (“the ‘961 patent”). In March 2018, Collegium petitioned the PTAB for PGR of claims 1-17 of the ‘961 patent.

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The IPKat

JULY 14, 2021

Reddy and Pai argue that even if a waiver results in a suspension of certain rules, vaccines cannot be manufactured without technology transfer and by merely waiving patents. We have written here about the disclosure problem in the patent system – that creates a gap between sufficiency of disclosure and enablement and manufacturing.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

A quick glance at last week analysis of wrongful obtainment in the Indian patent landscape, discussing Delhi High Courts jurisdiction in ANI vs OpenAI, and the implications of a MoU between screen writers and music composers. Keep up with the ever changing world of IP with SpicyIPs Weekly Review! Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan discusses this issue.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2022

DESIGNS The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (OLG Düsseldorf) sent a referral to the CJEU (Case C-684/21) on the role of alternative designs in the examination of Article 8(1) of Regulation 6/2002. Background, analysis and comments are provided by GuestKat Anastasiia Kyrylenko.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on IPO’s patent application rejection of HIV drug Dolutegravir, another judgement in the long-running Section 3(k) saga, this time on the patentability of business methods and the DHC IPD’s Annual Report 2023-24. Anything we are missing out on?

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