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IP as Collateral

IIPRD

Businesses are turning towards their intangible assets, specifically their IP to finance their growth and further innovation. Pledging IP as collateral in a loan agreement is one of the many ways of IP-backed financing. Treasury and the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust have also advanced IP backed loans.

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Some Concerns about the Amendment Process to Key Patent Levers: A “Captured” Patent Office?

SpicyIP

This report which is mandated under American law and placed before the US Congress, requires the USTR to conduct a review of the intellectual property (IP) laws and enforcement policies of American trading partners in order to identify those laws or practices which maybe detrimental to American interests.

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Supreme Court on Patent Law: November 2023

Patently-O

23-574): This case examines whether attorney fees can be awarded based on pursuing litigation deemed “baseless” after a magistrate judge’s non-infringement recommendation but before the district judge finalizes that recommendation. 408, 417 (2005). AT&T (No. More detail on each case below: MacNeil v. See Artuz v.

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Biogen Seeks a Preliminary Injunction in Natalizumab BPCIA Case Against Sandoz

LexBlog IP

Biogen alleges infringement of twenty-eight patents under the BPCIA based on Sandoz’s submission of an aBLA for PB006, a proposed biosimilar of TYSABRI (natilizumab). ” Biogen seeks a judgment that Sandoz and Polpharma have infringed or will infringe the asserted patents, and preliminary and permanent injunctive relief. .”

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En Banc on Indefiniteness

Patently-O

The NSS inventions relates to computer graphics rendering and claims a method of performing Boolean operations on facets of geometric objects. Later, NSS sued Autodesk for patent infringement. Both parties had consented to have the case handled fully by the Magistrate Judge who is a former IP litigator). 2005) (en banc).

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[Guest post] Closing the patent loophole across borders

The IPKat

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 implications of this debate are far from hypothetical or theoretical. Research in Motion, Ltd.,

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