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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Patently-O

MAY 21, 2024

In utility patents, the test for analogous arts has two prongs, with the reference qualifying as prior art if either prong is met: Whether the prior art is from the same field of endeavor as the claimed invention, regardless of the problem addressed by the reference.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For this type of analysis, the courts look to the Written Description requirement as one way to ensure that a patent’s exclusive rights are commensurate with what was actually invented. Here, for prior art purposes, the patentee needs to claim priority back to its original provisional application filed back in 2007.

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Patently-O

MARCH 7, 2023

In addition to the formal paperwork, the original application must sufficiently disclose the invention as claimed in the later patent. Rather, the priority filing date is rendered void and then we consider whether the invention was still novel and nonobvious as-of the later filing date.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

” The inventors here used conventional plant breeding to create a new form of petunia (Calibrachoa). In that Motionless Keyboard , the alleged prior use involved displaying the invention (a keyboard). In distinguishing these cases, the Federal Circuit looked to the purpose of the invention. Microsoft Corp., 3d 1376 (Fed.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 9, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The text of pre-AIA Section 102(a) suggests that an inventor’s own prior publication qualifies as invalidating prior art, even if within the 1-year grace period. The press release specifically quotes and references Dr. Bill Forbes, who is listed as an inventor on the IBS-D patents. 35 U.S.C. § 102(a)(pre-AIA).

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 28, 2023

However, in a recent case, the Federal Circuit found that a “machine learning” claim element lacked sufficient enablement because both the claim itself and the written description of the patent to which it belonged failed to describe “ how ” the claimed invention implemented this element. In re Starrett , 2023 U.S.P.Q.2d

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Intepat

APRIL 20, 2022

To be granted a patent, an invention by the applicant must be novel, non-obvious, and such that it 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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Patently-O

MARCH 18, 2024

The patent at issue, originally naming a single inventor (Steve Campbell), claims a lightweight intermodal container system for transporting refrigerated gaseous fluids. The district court agreed, finding their contributions were significant to the conception of the claimed invention. Tube-Mac Indus., Campbell , No. 2022-2170 (Fed.

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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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LexBlog IP

MARCH 16, 2023

ONI said that Mr Jing made the key patentable inventions (which was largely accepted) and was therefore the rightful owner of the relevant IP. 39 of the Patents Act 1977, inventions made by an employee which “ might reasonably be expected to result from the carrying out of his duties ” will vest in their employer.

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Patently-O

MAY 11, 2023

Under this two prong test, a reference is relevant if it is from the same field of endeavor as the invention at issue, or if it is reasonably pertinent to the problem the invention is trying to solve. 2004) In its 2007 KSR v. In re Bigio , 381 F.3d 3d 1320, 1325 (Fed.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

We will start with patents and copyrights because they have constitutional grounding in Article 1, Section 8 : [The Congress shall have power t]o promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. Wright , 94 U.S.

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IIPRD

APRIL 28, 2023

While the goal of IPR law is to preserve inventors’ rights over their creations, the goal of competition law is to maintain effective market competition by prohibiting anti-competitive acts and the misuse of dominant positions. IPR law’s goal has been changed from defending individual inventors to promoting new ideas. [2]

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SpicyIP

APRIL 7, 2024

Section 8 and the Transparency of Indian Patent System According to Section 8 of the Indian Patents Act , patent applicants must regularly disclose to the patent office any same or substantially similar foreign applications corresponding to their patent applications for Indian inventions, and any updates relevant to their prosecution.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Inventors, Disaster Scientists and Entrepreneurs: Commerce Home to Diverse-Range of Hispanic Pioneers. Munoz immigrated from Tijuana, Mexico in 2007. ELLEN OCHOA, INVENTOR AND PATENT HOLDER. LUIS VON AHN, INVENTOR AND PATENT HOLDER. To see more Hispanic inventors and patent holders, please visit the U.S.

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