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Fish & Richardson Expands Life Sciences Group with Addition of Principal Dr. Helen Baca

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Baca focuses her practice on IP portfolio management, strategic client counseling, and patent prosecution in diverse scientific and engineering fields. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2009, and her Ph.D. She received her J.D. from the University of Chicago in the Department of Chemistry in 2005.

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Raising the Bar Has Not Reduced the Patent Acceptance Rate in Australia

LexBlog IP

Here, I define ‘rate of acceptance’ as the proportion of examined applications that go on to be accepted for grant. Between 2009 and 2013, the rate at which applications subject to the former (i.e. I was not one of those people, and I expect that neither were most other patent attorneys. in 2019/20.

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Delhi High Court grants interim injunction to Novartis against Natco’s use of Revolade patent 

SpicyIP

Therefore, by granting the interim injunction in the present matter on the above rationale, the court has raised the bar for the defendants planning to resort to the plea of invalidity to oppose application of interim injunction, in future litigations. . The Drug and the patent. The EO patent bears the number IN 233161 (IN 161).

Patent 105
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EFTA-India Free Trade Agreement and Patents Rules Amendment: Compromising Public Accountability and Transparency in the Indian Patent System

SpicyIP

Significantly, the agreement requires India to make substantive changes to its provision obligating a patent applicant to furnish information about their foreign applications corresponding to their application in India. Justice Ayyangar advocated for the inclusion of Section 8 to promote honest and open disclosure.

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Keeping up with Belgian patent litigation: Year case law review 2021

The IPKat

selected address issues such as SPC protection for combination products, double patenting, prosecution history estoppel and the influence of declarations made by the patentee in parallel proceedings, the possibility for national courts to request technical opinions from the EPO under Art. The decisions we (arbitrarily!)

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Foreign Prosecution History: To Admit, Or Not To Admit, That Remains a Puzzle To Canadian Courts

Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

of the Patent Act has brought about a significant shift in the Canadian approach to file wrapper estoppel by enabling the introduction of a patent’s prosecution history during claim construction. and whether it should cover communications between patentees and foreign patent offices. TA Foods Ltd. 2021 FCA 7 Section 53.1

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Journey Through “Septembers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

One pertinent post on this subject was from this month in 2010 called the Patent Eligibility and the Logic of Law and Science. Basheer endorsed the point about testing patent agents on foundational legal subjects since a good part of patent prosecution will involve “legal” aspects, without requiring them to have a law degree to take the exam.