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Track One Patent Applications: Accelerating Your Path to Patent Protection

Larson & Larson

Track One Patent Applications: Accelerating Your Path to Patent Protection After nearly 15 years of shepherding inventors through the patent process, I’ve seen firsthand how crucial timing can be in protecting intellectual property. Here’s what you need to know about this accelerated pathway to patent protection.

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PTAB Declares that Broad Institute, MIT, and Harvard Inventors Were First to Invent a CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing System to Alter Gene Expression in Eukaryotic Cells

LexBlog IP

On February 28, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“ PTAB ”) issued a decision on priority in an interference proceeding between the Broad Institute, Inc. Second, the PTAB was also not persuaded by CVC’s assertion that CVC inventors, Drs. ’” Id. citation omitted). ” Id. at 25 (citation omitted).

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Whither goest the patent troll?

The IPKat

The worst of these patent trolls pick up low-quality patents and take advantage of asymmetries in the economics of litigation to make quick cash. The root source of this situation, according to Lederer, is the patent prosecution process. Start with the sheer volume of patent applications. Focusing on the U.S.,

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Micro Entity Status: Qualifying to Reduce Patent Fees

LexBlog IP

Micro entity status is a newer status, introduced under the America Invents Act Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”) in 2011 as an effort to reduce the cost of patenting for small businesses and individual inventors. Reduce your patent fees. Patent prosecution can be a substantial investment to some.

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HOW INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW CAN SOLVE LITIGATION SURROUNDING THE HATCH-WAXMAN ACT BROUGHT BY THE COURT’S DECISION IN BRAEBURN V. FOOD & DRUG ADMINISTRATION

JIPL Online

i] This confusion has a direct impact on the willingness to invent, drug pricing, the recovery of research and development (R&D), and other basic purposes of the Act. [ii]. With a few modifications, the FDA could employ similar claim construction as used by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. [xx] Braeburn , 389 F.Supp.3d

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Artificial Intelligence and IP: A Literature Review

SpicyIP

Reform in Law However, while the patent application numbers are on the rise, the Industry has expressed concerns over the patent prosecution and examination regime in India. Surprisingly, here the report does not mention any protection (or lack thereof) within the IP laws of the country.

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Fish Principals Author Article “Powering up” for Intellectual Property Magazine

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Patent prosecution, portfolio, and strategic patenting considerations. Patents have contributed significantly to the advances in science and technology that make lithium-ion batteries more affordable and efficient today. Additionally, one should ask questions such as: where are the customers located?