Selvam & Selvam Blog

JUNE 7, 2024

In a recent ruling dated April 4, 2024, the Madras High Court addressed a significant issue regarding the procedural timelines in patent filings. He filed a patent application on August 5, 2021. Consequently, the patent application was deemed abandoned under Section 21(1) of the Patents Act, 1970.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

UH filed a patent application in Delhi, which AD opposed with a pre-grant opposition also filed in Delhi. Both the examination of the patent application and the objection were assigned to the Office of the Patent Controller in Chennai, where the objection was dismissed, and the patent was granted to UH.

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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.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

August 22, 2023, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, proposed the Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2023. This set of amendments if accepted has the potential of altering the entire patent ecosystem of the nation. Hence, a well thought of change is the need of the hour.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 1, 2021

Section 11 (b) read with Rule 24B of Patents Rules, 2003 concerning patent application exam stipulates a 48-month period from the date of priority or filing of patent application within which a request for examination of the application needs to be made.

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Intepat

JUNE 18, 2024

In the National Phase of the PCT Application there is no option for the applicant to automatically avail the examination of the Application. The Patent Application will only be examined only when the applicant or any other interested person makes a request for such an examination. But the catch is here.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

JULY 22, 2024

In a recent decision, the Delhi High Court addressed a petition challenging the abandonment of a patent application for a “Blind-Stitch Sewing Machine and Method of Blind Stitching.” ” The patent application was filed on August 3, 2019, followed by a request for examination on February 21, 2022.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 21, 2024

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under which the Patent Office functions, has published for consultation a set of proposed amendments to the Patent Rules, 2003. Two of the provisions slated to be amended have a direct impact on the quality of patents granted by the Patent Office.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In the Dr. Reddy’s case, a revocation application was filed under Section 64 against a patent granted in favour of Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH. Patent Revocation Petitions Under Section 64. Court’s Reasoning.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Following the patent search, one should draft the patent application effectively. The application should include various parts such as claims, background, description, drawing, abstract and summary. Filing the patent application. A receipt is then generated with the patent application number.

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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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SpicyIP

MAY 14, 2024

The term ‘Working Example’ as such is neither used nor defined anywhere in the Patent Act, 1970, Patent Rules, 2003 or, the Manual of Patent Office Practice & Procedure, 2019. In some applications, these are also mentioned as ‘use examples’. In this post I would like to flag some issues with this approach.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 29, 2022

CFMT’s two asserted patents claimed improved apparatus/method for cleaning semiconductor wafers using a specific closed-environment setup. After filing for patent protection, the inventors were hired by Texas Instruments (TI) to implement a version of the system. CFMT, Inc. YieldUp Int’l Corp. , 3d 1339 (Fed.

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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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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

First thing first, let’s unfold the case: The case involves a writ petition challenging the abandonment of a patent application and praying for its restoration. Here, the background is that the Petitioner hired Mr. Naveen Chaklan of M/s Delhi Intellectual Property LLP to deal with his patent application.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Three pharmaceutical companies, including Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Micromet AG, and Cambridge Antibody Technology (now acquired by AstraZeneca), in September 2003 announced signing a non-exclusive cross-license agreement. However, in this case, it is imperative to note that determining the scope of a patent is not easy. Bottom Line.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 8, 2024

A patent which is granted in the territory of India can only be discharged within the borders of India, meaning the Patent rights are territorial in nature. Which means that there is no “Worldwide Patent”. Nonetheless, if a patent application is filed in India, that leads to the protection of the patent internationally.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 30, 2021

.” Full Scope Written Description : The Patent Act requires that the specification include “a written description of the invention.” The specification needs to convey that the inventor had “possession” of the claimed invention as of the patent application’s filing date. 35 U.S.C. §

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 27, 2024

The share of “DTS-i Technology” had a notable surge from 2003 to 2008, suggesting that the product protected by the Applicant’s patent had gained considerable popularity in the market. The idea of presuming the validity of a patent. REFERENCES Under section 108 of the Patents Act, 1970.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has recently published a set of draft amendments (“Draft Rules”) to the Indian Patent Rules, 2003. The amendments are currently open for comments from the public.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The parties agree that the products described in the letter embody the design that was later patented. February 2000 : Junker filed his patent application that led to the D’839 patent. In 2003, Junker filed a reissue application seeking to claim that benefit. 102(b) (pre-AIA). Image below).

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Patently-O

MAY 23, 2024

Patent Application No. Under the pre-AIA first-to-invent patent system, if two parties claimed the same invention in separate patent applications or patents, the USPTO could declare an interference proceeding to determine which party was the first to invent and thus entitled to the patent.

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Intepat

MARCH 16, 2021

This will be beneficial for the applicants filing PCT applications claiming priority from Indian Patent applications and the Examiners at the IPO and WIPO who are handling such applications. 49 in the First Schedule of the Patent Rules, 2003.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Interestingly, in these cases, the trademark owner itself/himself misused the trademark as the generic name of the product in advertising and Patent Applications. In 2003, the photocopier firm Xerox came up with an advertisement that read, “When you use ‘Xerox’ the way you use ‘aspirin,’ we get a headache.”

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

If the patent claims are translated in a wrong manner, then there are chances that the claims might get narrowed or even get broadened. In any of the cases, it can be costly for the applicant in the case, any third party sues the applicant concerning the patent application. Also in 35 U.S.C.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

Winston Strawn Plagiarism Complaint Winston Strawn Plagiarism Attachments I recall being asked to draft my first patent infringement complaint back in early 2003 – a few months after graduating from law school. Similar issues also came up in the patent information disclosure statement cases a decade ago.

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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.” However, the notice of abandonment was withdrawn by the PTO.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Almost two years after the 2021 amendments to the Patent Rules 2003, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has proposed a fresh set of amendments which, if accepted, can change the Indian Patent landscape substantially. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. Varsha is a 5th year law student pursuing B.

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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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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Interestingly, the first patent for Sirturo was filed on 18/07/2003 ( PCT/EP2003/050322 ), meaning it is (more than) 20 years since their first filing. And earlier this year, the Indian patent office rejected their attempt to file a secondary patent on the drug.

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Patently-O

MAY 2, 2022

The original patent application was filed Feb 9, 2021 –one year and two days later and outside the one year grace period. This case is one where savvy patent attorneys would have helped: (1) filing the patent application earlier; or (2) drafting the contract so that it is not a “sale.”

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Patently-O

MAY 3, 2023

See David Hricik, Wrong about Everything: The Application by the District Courts of Rule 9(b) to Inequitable Conduct, 86 Marquette Law Review 895 (2003) ( here ).) hold[s] that the pleader ‘need only allege facts from which the Court could reasonably infer that the patent applicant made a deliberate decision to deceive the [US]PTO.’.

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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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Patently-O

APRIL 10, 2022

The normal rule of claim construction is that claim terms should be given “the meaning that the term[s] would have to a person of ordinary skill in the art in question at the time of the invention, i.e., as of the effective filing date of the patent application.” ” Phillips v. 3d 1303 (Fed. 2005)(en banc).

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More Than Your Mark

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Patents have issued with at least one claim containing the word “cannabis” or “cannabinoid.” The USPTO applies the same legal standard when reviewing utility patent applications related to cannabis, as it does to all other inventions. In short, a substance’s Schedule I classification is irrelevant to its patentability.

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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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U.S. Department of Commerce

MAY 27, 2021

Designed to enable users to surf the Internet and navigate Web pages through a computer’s numeric keypad instead of a mouse, HPR debuted in 1997; by 2003, it was widely used around the world. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Achievement Award from the Society of Women Engineers, and holds more than 20 patents.

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