Patently-O

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In our new paper, The Truth About Design Patents , we debunk three widely held—but incorrect—views about U.S. design patents. Taken together, these myths paint a grim picture of design patents: Half of all design patent applications are rejected. Most asserted design patents are invalidated in litigation.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2023

magna cum laude , Order of the Coif, from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Air Law and Commerce and a member of the SMU Law Review Association. In 2010, Rae graduated from the University of Texas with a B.S. in electrical engineering in 2010.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 15, 2023

Patent laws fail to protect traditional knowledge as it does not recognise generation innovation. Further, while patent and copyright have strict brackets on what it pertains to, many forms of traditional knowledge may not strictly conform to it.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

The Court sets aside the rejection, staying the suit until the rectification application’s disposal within eight months. Ynsect vs The Controller Of Patents on 28 February, 2024 (Delhi High Court) Image from here The appeal challenged the denial of an Indian patent application for insect treatment.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

It notes that despite the government initiatives to strengthen India’s IP regime, applying the ‘narrowly focused’ and ‘stringent’ patent laws toward AI applications remains challenging. It further notes that India ranks 8 th in AI patents, and 4 th in terms of AI scholarly papers.

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IIPRD

JUNE 24, 2024

‘The Paris Convention’, adopted in March 1883 and revised in the years 1900, 1911, 1925, 1934, 1958, 1967, and 1979, comprehensively addresses “patents, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and geographical indications”. [1] 13] Patent Cooperation Treaty, June 19, 1970, 28 U.S.T. 121; 36 I.L.M.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 14, 2022

Matthews, §4 Annotated Patent Digest § 25:76 (“Surrender arises from a patentee’s canceling or amending a claim to avoid a prior art rejection and relying on the amended matter as avoiding the prior art.”). Schor, The Reissue Recapture Doctrine: Its Place Among the Patent Laws , 22 Cardozo Arts & Ent.

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Patently-O

MAY 17, 2024

Even before the decision, biotech -focused patent attorneys have been searching for ways to capture their clients innovations with broad enough coverage. Xencor’s patent application (U.S. Application No. although in both a murine (mouse-derived) version and its humanized form, eculizumab. Eli Lilly & Co. ,

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 5, 2022

Traditional cures for prevalent medical ailments are routinely discovered by these companies, who then commercialize and patent various forms of such remedies for their own advantage. In this way, the protections afforded by patent law benefit both the inventor and the general public.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2023

Novartis appealed this decision and ended up obtaining a PI on appeal in October 2010. At that time, the Opposition Division (OD) of the EPO, as well as the UK and Dutch Courts had already revoked the patent. The grant of that patent had initially been rejected by the examination division of the EPO for lack of novelty.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 5, 2022

Traditional cures for prevalent medical ailments are routinely discovered by these companies, who then commercialize and patent various forms of such remedies for their own advantage. In this way, the protections afforded by patent law benefit both the inventor and the general public.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 27, 2024

Check Sadhvi Sood’s post discussing Nestle’s patent application for Fennel Flower (Kala Jeera) vis-a-vis TK. 2010’s International Efforts on Pandemics: Did you know Swaraj’s 2010 post on “ Progress(?) Enough Policy stuff now! have nicely discussed. Let’s wrap the story (an ongoing one?)

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Barry Sookman

MAY 4, 2020

This is a question that is being studied including by the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) which launched an investigation into issues associated with patenting artificial intelligence inventions. patent law, 35 USC §§ 1 et seq. an inventor must be a natural person. In addition, the U.S.

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