IP Tech Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

The Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) 608.01(p) Failure to do so raises an inequitable conduct issue related to the applicant’s duty of disclosure, as discussed in our related posts here and here. In fact, a patent application does not need to provide a guarantee that a prophetic example actually works!

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Patently-O

APRIL 30, 2024

Services like All Prior Art are using AI to churn out and ‘publish’ many millions of generated texts, hoping some will preempt future patent applications. ” Lidiya Mishchenko , Thank You for Not Publishing (Unexamined Patent Applications) , 47 B.Y.U. .” See my 2014 post. Amgen Inc.

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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 patents here are pre-AIA and so the on-sale bar included a one-year pre-filing grace period. by Dennis Crouch. Venture (Fed. ” Pfaff v. The Feb 7 date is important.

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Intepat

JANUARY 17, 2023

It is a crucial techno-legal document constituted by scientific and technical disclosures which designate the basis of the rights of a patent. Section 7(4) of the Patents Act, 1970 ( the Act) directs that every patent application shall be accompanied by a provisional or a complete specification.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

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. In its fact findings, the court noted that PMC and its inventors prosecuted their patent applications “serially.”

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SpicyIP

MARCH 29, 2024

Third, patentability of a method of agriculture- the issue of Section 3(h). The Factual Matrix Mitsui Chemicals (Appellant) filed a patent application in India through the PCT route in 2009. The application claimed priority from a Japanese application and the PCT claims was directed towards- “1. Let’s dive in.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 17, 2022

There are no precedents through which trademark issues could be discussed, but an online platform named Second life appeared in 2003 was a pioneer of metaverse technology and its fast development brought numerous intellectual property issues. With the growing number of patent applications, the risk is also increasing.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 3, 2023

In July 2007, Aysha Shaukat’s post first discussed how Pakistan was planning to take legal action against India for patenting ‘Super Basmati’. However, it later turned out that there was no patent application for the Super Basmati, but rather, as Aysha said, it was a “proverbial case of the media conflating IP terms”.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 4, 2020

In the meantime, the USPTO just released a decision denying the application for a such a patent holding that under the U.S. patent law, 35 USC §§ 1 et seq. an inventor must be a natural person. Title 35 of the United States Code consistently refers to inventors as natural persons. For example, 35 U.S.C. §

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