43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Christine Farley, Authenticity and Design: Why sell a chair for 10x a visually identical chair? Sometimes the replication is exact; design claimants say they’re made with cheaper materials and practices, but midcentury modern design aimed for cheapness and access: the idea that more people can have it now would be a good not a bad.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While these new guidelines are not legally binding, they offer important insight into how the Office plans to apply an even more flexible approach to obviousness — something Director Vidal sees as mandated by the Supreme Court’s 2007 decision in KSR Int’l Co. 398 (2007). Teleflex Inc. , 2500 words). Read the Guidance Here.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 24, 2023

1] LKQ, an auto parts repair vendor for GM, successfully petitioned for inter partes review of GM’s design patent for a front fender design, [2] arguing it was anticipated by a prior art reference (Lain) and obvious over Lian alone or in combination with a brochure for the 2010 Hyundai Tucson. Operations LLC. [1]

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Vanda sued, but lost on obviousness grounds — with the court holding that the claimed combination was obvious because it was directed to a set of known elements and a person of ordinary skill would have a “reasonable expectation of success” in reaching the resulting invention. NAPP Amicus Brief. Greenwood , 52 U.S. (11

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 27, 2024

In year 2007 the plaintiffs (Bajaj Auto Ltd.) Utilizing the invention or technology outlined in the patents owned by the plaintiffs; and 2.The However, in 2007, the Respondent made the decision to submit a revocation petition to the IPAB for the first time. and the state of Maharashtra filed a lawsuit in the Madras High Court.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 4, 2022

Fish Principals Craig Deutsch , Jennifer Huang , and Grace Kim , discuss challenging design patents at the PTAB in their Law360 Expert Analysis article. Challenging design patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is difficult — nearly two-thirds of petitions directed to design patents have been denied institution.

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Patently-O

MARCH 8, 2022

In particular, Broadcom was unable to show any licensed domestic use of the invention as claimed. ITC powers over infringing imports] apply only if an industry in the United States, relating to the articles protected by the patent, copyright, trademark, mask work, or design concerned, exists or is in the process of being established.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Preliminary Exams for the Recruitment of Patent and Designs Examiners Cancelled! Just a day after conducting the Preliminary exams for the recruitment of the Patent and Design Examiners, the Quality Control Council of India (QCI) on September 4, announced that the same has been cancelled due to “some irregularities/ technical glitches.”

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

AUGUST 4, 2021

Introduced in 2019, founder Peggy Johns claims to have invented egglife egg white wraps, using a now patented method ( U.S. The Defendant, Crepini, LLC (“Crepini”), was apparently founded in 2007 with “the dream of bringing crepes into every North American household.” 10,194,669 ).

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Patently-O

MARCH 28, 2024

The court’s ruling emphasizes that the mere existence of prior art elements is not sufficient to render a claimed invention obvious; rather, there must be a clear reason or rationale for a person of ordinary skill in the art to combine those elements in the claimed manner. Assembly Guidance Systems, Inc. In KSR Int’l Co.

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Patently-O

MARCH 18, 2024

The district court agreed, finding their contributions were significant to the conception of the claimed invention. Specifically, the judge determined that the port boss slippage problem precluded the original prototype from being viable, and Mackay and Hewson’s design input, like the starburst grooves, helped solve that critical issue.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

20-1394 (CVSG requested October 4, 2021); Undermining Jury Decisions : Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. 118 (2007) where the Supreme Court found standing for a licensee to challenge a patent — and rejecting the Federal Circuit’s reasonable-apprehension-of-suit requirement. Neapco Holdings LLC, et al. , Patreon, Inc.,

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

10, 2022), serves as a warning to prospective filers that making pre-filing offers for sale, or engaging in discussions for future sales, can be detrimental to one’s ability to obtain both design and utility patents. Design Patent No. before the effective filing date of the claimed invention”); 35 U.S.C. §

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Intepat

MAY 28, 2024

This success is largely attributed to Apple’s effective trademarking of various designs and sounds related to its products and services. Notably, Apple trademarked its store design in the United States in 2011. Design Aesthetics: Apple is known for its minimalist and sleek product design. In 2007, Apple Inc.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Formula One can be perceived as an epicentre of inventions and innovations, making intellectual property indispensable in the sport. IP can be found in the chassis of cars, uniforms, merchandise, various engineering and designing equipment, television broadcasting, and most importantly, carefully hidden trade secrets.

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Patentably Defined

JUNE 7, 2012

This person of ordinary skill is a hypothetical construct – an ordinarily skilled artisan who is presumed to possess ordinary creativity and to be aware of all prior art in his field of endeavor, as well as prior art that is relevant to the problem addressed by the claimed invention. 2007) (citing In re Clay , 966 F.2d 2d at 1036.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

118, 124 (2007). Preliminary injunctions are typically issued early in a lawsuit and are designed to preserve rights as the case moves forward to final judgment. Although the court did not enter into any serious policy analysis or consideration of Supreme Court precedent promoting patent challenges such as Lear, Inc. Adkins , 395 U.S.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

2007) where the court explained that: “If the condition for performing a contingent step is not satisfied, the performance recited by the step need not be carried out in order for the claimed method to be performed.” The Board relied particularly on the Federal Circuit’s non-precedential decision in Cyber settle, Inc.

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Patently-O

APRIL 16, 2024

M]erely describing the design of an experiment in a ClinicalTrial.Gov disclosure tells a POSA nothing about the obviousness of the study’s eventual result. The Court has recognized that a clinical study itself is a protected experimental use of the invention.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 6, 2023

398 (2007). [I]f Despite this lower bar, IPR petitioners still have the burden of at least explaining why a skilled artisan would have been be motivated to combine various references to form the claimed invention. The invention particularly employs “link adaptation” and “incremental redundancy” to optimize channel coding.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 25, 2023

DivX has developed a number of inventions related to video streaming. Prior to 2007 the Federal Circuit had a rule forbidding the citation of its unpublished opinions. Judge Chen authored the majority opinion joined by Judge Linn, Judge Dyk wrote in dissent. expressly permits those citations.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

Further, that same commentator has noted that: In 2007, the U.S. Yet just like the recipe, the Sequence remains unprotectable as a process the design of which primarily reflects function, not expression. “ find out knowledge of witty inventions.”: Discoveries vs Inventions. World Intellect. 75, 79 (2020).

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