Patently-O

JANUARY 9, 2024

Here is the statute: A person shall be entitled to a patent unless —(a) the invention was known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent. 35 U.S.C. § 102(a)(pre-AIA). ” In re Katz , 687 F.2d

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Patently-O

MARCH 25, 2024

The case centers on the proper legal standard for determining when an invention is “obvious” and therefore unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § Teleflex (2007) , the Supreme Court stated that a “combination of familiar elements according to known methods is likely to be obvious when it does no more than yield predictable results.”

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

” [1] His point was simple and well taken—every invention is a combination of something old. ” That is, inventions that yield predictable results are far less likely to be considered patentable. These are not patentable inventions because one of ordinary skill would have had common sense and foresee these results.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” Can you imagine the accolades someone would receive if they contributed to an invention that improves bacon? In 2007, as part of Hormel’s quest to improve its process for creating precooked bacon pieces, Hormel met with David Howard and others from Unitherm to discuss processes and Unitherm’s cooking equipment.

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IP Intelligence

AUGUST 31, 2021

Ironburg Inventions Ltd. , Ironburg Inventions, Ltd. , 06-CV-1909, 2007 WL 922306, at *5 (E.D.N.Y. In its Aug. 17 decision in Valve Corporation v. the Federal Circuit appears to have cleared the way for district courts to take judicial notice of Wayback Machine captures as evidence of prior-art printed publications. Valve Corp.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 11, 2022

Teleflex (2007). In this case, the court explained that the inequitable conduct (unclean hands) only applies when the unconscionable act has “immediate and necessary relation to the equity that he seeks in respect of the matter in litigation.” ” Great Atlantic & Pac. Supermarket Equipment Corp., 147 (1950).

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Intepat

MAY 28, 2024

Apple’s multiple trademark oppositions and IP Litigation worldwide has become a part of its broader strategy to maintain exclusive rights to the “Apple” icon and term. In 2007, Apple Inc. did not invent the fruit and that a growers’ association should rightfully be allowed to use an apple in its logo.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 16, 2021

Merpel does not like this form of taxi Friend of the Kat and Legal Head of Delivery for Gett in Moscow, Konstantin Voropaev has been following some developments out of Kazakhstan relating to an uptick in litigation in the taxi-app space. The subject matter of the patented invention must be new at the time of filing a patent application.

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IP Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2022

application during litigation in the U.S.? application during litigation in the U.S.? litigation. [i] application; and (d) “relevant and not related to unique aspects of foreign patent law.”[xi]. While no court in the U.S. has yet faced this question, such a situation is likely forthcoming. i] EPC Art. 84, available at[link]. [ii]

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The parties settled the litigation before the IPRs were complete, but agreed that the IPRs could continue. 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. Genentech, Inc. , VLSI Technology LLC.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2022

2007); see also Firstenergy Solutions Corp. A case that I recently litigated illustrates how this can work. Dircksen , an employer and former employee made competing claims over the ownership of an invention. ” Chicago Title Ins. Magnuson , 487 F.3d 3d 985, 990 (6 th Cir. Flerick , 521 Fed. 521, 525-26 (6 th Cir.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

118, 124 (2007). The covenant included both in court litigation and also validity challenges before the USPTO. 224 (1892) (“It is as important to the public that competition should not be repressed by worthless patents, as that the patentee of a really valuable invention should be protected in his monopoly”).

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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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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In the first of a two-parter opinion piece, two US patent and anti-trust litigators in the form of Mark Selwyn , Tim Syrett and Alix Pisani of WilmerHale (who have acted in some of these cases) discuss their view of what is going on and where the answer might, and should lie. 5 In 2007, Qualcomm told the U.S.

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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. Under § 256, correcting inventorship requires comparing the alleged co-inventor’s contributions against the invention as claimed. Here, the acts associated with co-inventorship occurred back in 2007.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

Further, that same commentator has noted that: In 2007, the U.S. “ find out knowledge of witty inventions.”: Discoveries vs Inventions. Inventions : When you invent something that does not exist. ” Aseri, Commercializing Religion Via Trademarking God, 23 J. World Intellect. 75, 79 (2020).

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When Design Within Reach started, it said in its 2007 10K: “our competitors believe they have exclusive rights” in some of their proudcts, including some of their best selling items, which were reproductions. There’s not evidence of a litigation history of the few midcentury modern design patents, even though Herman Miller etc.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

Seeing no immediate litigation alternative, I called for “common sense Congressional legislation to make States directly liable for damages for copyright infringement,” because I felt it unfair that, after Allen , copyright owners “would find themselves defenseless from state-sponsored copyright piracy.” 2d 480 (Fed.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Tejaswini writes on this order by the Division Bench and its subsequent acknowledgment by the court, highlighting how this order can correct the practice of granting unfair ex parte ad-interim interim injunctions in Trademark litigation disputes. Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

But we reject applying a judicially invented damages limit to convert one of them into the other. 2007), in which he reviews the legislative history and concludes that Congress intended (or at least assumed) that a wrongful act rule of accrual would apply. National Geographic Society , 409 F. 2d 235, 244-47 (S.D.N.Y.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

WO/2007/053868. . AI inventions are fundamentally software-related inventions. as a practical rule, software-related patents should disclose an algorithm by which the software-related invention is achieved. for software-related inventions, see: Why including an “Algorithm” is Important for Software Patents (Part 2).

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