Patently-O

MARCH 28, 2025

patent law over the past several decades, the America Invents Act of 2011 was clearly the most dramatic rewriting of the law since 1952. In my view, the case sets up a fundamental tension between a straight reading of the statutory text and longstanding precedent. My bet is on the precedent.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 20, 2023

Applicants, for their part, are not required to disclose prior art that is not material to patentability or that is cumulative of other prior art they’ve already provided. It may surprise you, then, to learn that the genre of science fiction is deeply indebted to patent law and patent theory. See [link].

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

” The appellate panel justifies its broad interpretation by the Supreme Court’s 2011 pronouncement that the public disclosure bar has a “generally broad scope.” 401 (2011) (interpreting a prior version of the Act). Schindler Elevator Corp. Kirk , 563 U.S.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court is set to consider several significant patent law petitions addressing a range of issues from the application of obviousness standards, challenges to PTAB procedures, interpretation of joinder time limits IPR, to the proper scope patent eligibility doctrine. 1, at 48 (2011). 112–98, pt.

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SpicyIP

JULY 18, 2024

The judgment raises serious concerns regarding the quality of functioning of the patent office. Facts In the given case, the University of Ulm (Germany) filed a patent application (Application No.645/CHENP/2011 The above patent application was filed in 2011. That means, 13 years is already over.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 5, 2022

Patent Law, because the U.S. Patent Act was amended in 2011 to expressly require that inventors be “individuals.” In its newest decision on the topic, the Federal Circuit declares instead, for the purposes of patent law, an inventor must be human. The word individual is important for U.S. 35 U.S.C. §

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 20, 2022

From a patent law standpoint, the most interesting part of the appellate decision focuses on anticipation and the basic patent-law game show question “Is it Prior Art?” ” The purported prior art to the Ridge patent is a product manufactured and sold by Mosaic at a trade show. Is it Prior Art?

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

So these studies can’t tell us much about what’s going on in the Federal Circuit era, unless one assumes—unreasonably—that the Federal Circuit didn’t meaningfully change design patent law. We also looked at design patent outcomes in the International Trade Commission and the UPSTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 31, 2022

George Washington University Law School Professor Dmitry Karshtedt has passed. We often had different ways of thinking about patent law, and I always hoped that some day we might have time to write something together. He joined GW Law in 2015 after a fellowship at Stanford and received tenure in 2020.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Although the Patent Act does not expressly declare “inventors-must-be-humans” or “no-robots,” since 2011 it has stated that inventors are “individuals.” 100(f)/(g) (2011). Thaler has been attempting to seek patent protection for two inventions created by DABUS, his AI computer.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 10, 2023

Read : David Boundy, What Every Patent and Trademark Lawyer Should Understand About the MPEP, TMEP, and Other Guidance: How to Use (and Defend Against) the MPEP to be a Better Advocate , 2023 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 1 (2023) ( Boundy.2021.HowToUseGuidance Prior Patently-O Patent L.J. Pre-AIAPatents ).

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

patent laws enacted on September 11, 2011; one relating to the U.S. changing from first-to-invent to first-to-file, the other relating to the creation of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and three new procedural mechanisms to invalidate issued patents. There were two revolutionary amendments to U.S.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In 2011, Hormel filed a patent application for the two-step process, omitting HIP’s involvement. The ‘498 Patent was issued from this application in 2018. Hormel conducted testing at Unitherm and later at Hormel. Also, Howard was not named as an inventor.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The availability of the grace period in the US also provides the advantage that the patentability of an invention is not immediately destroyed by an unintentional disclosure or prior use by an inventor unfamiliar with the patent law ( IPKat ).

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 13, 2024

Lastly, I contrast the outcome of the judgement with MHC’s decision in Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC , wherein the Court had granted the patent without looking into the question of enablement, independent of the 3(k) inquiry. The Patent Office, among other grounds, rejected the applications on the grounds of unpatentability u/s.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 19, 2022

Par had listed two patents in the Orange Book as covering its product and so, as required, Eagle’s ANDA included a Paragraph IV certification that the two patents were either (1) invalid or (2) would not be infringed. ” In re Brimonidine Patent Litig., 35 U.S.C. § 355(j)(2)(A)(vii)(IV). 3d 1366, 1378 (Fed.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The America Invents Act had a lengthy path through Congress before it was signed into law in September 2011, and it has spurred numerous court fights and regulatory changes in the decade since.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This guest post was authored by Joel Smith, a 3L at the University of Missouri School of Law, with support from the team at the Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic. Why is there a post about a veterans law case on a patent law blog? 428 (2011). See Henderson ex rel. Henderson v. Shinseki , 562 U.S.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 1, 2024

For instance, in 2011, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported that Gilead’s agreement to license several HIV/AIDS drugs to the Medicines Patent Pool could improve patient access to medicines, but notably excluded Brazil, China, and Russia, which have large populations living with HIV.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 28, 2023

Citizens, a credit union based in Peoria, Illinois, obtained a federal trademark registration in May 2011 2011 for the mark CEFCU. In January 2011, SDCCU filed a trademark application for the tagline IT’S NOT BIG BANKING, IT’S BETTER and obtained a federal registration for the mark in April 2014. .”

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SpicyIP

MAY 8, 2022

Eashan has been practicing as an intellectual property advocate and consultant in New Delhi since 2011, and teaches a seminar on intellectual property law at National Law University, Delhi. Eashan writes about Indian intellectual property law on his Medium page. Indian trade mark law acknowledges both positions.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 22, 2021

In fact, over the centuries, patent law has developed a formal approach for evaluating a product’s “innovation.” The FDA can find comfort knowing that the law, particularly intellectual property (IP) law, has already defined “innovation.” 314.50 (2011). products.” [xix] xx] Braeburn , 389 F.Supp.3d 102 (2012).

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 18, 2023

On June 1, 2021, the Fourth Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law became effective. An important part of the amendment is the introduction by Article 76 of the patent linkage system in China – a system for litigation of drug patents prior to market entry of generics, similar to that provided by the Hatch Waxman Act in the US.

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More Than Your Mark

MARCH 12, 2021

2011-000047, Tech Center 1700 (B.P.A.I. 9, 2011) (reversing obviousness rejection to claims reciting method of “applying orange juice or another juice containing citric acid to unblanched potatoes prior to pan frying and freezing”). The post Patenting Recipes – Recipe for Disaster or Sweet Reward appeared first on Patent Law Blog.

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Patently-O

JULY 13, 2023

And, although we have long permitted patent filings as an alternative, the law sees that as merely a constructive stand-in for the real thing. At the same time, we have all heard the patent law maxim that an invention is defined be the scope of the claims.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

And, even though the subject matter of the lawsuit is a patent license, that sort of case is ordinarily not seen as “arising under” the U.S. patent laws. The hook for the Federal Circuit was a declaratory judgment counterclaim filed by MasterCard seeking a ruling that an AlexSam patent was invalid.

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More Than Your Mark

MARCH 4, 2019

Because the case turned on dates, a timeline follows: February 22, 2011: Supernus submits a Request for Continued Examination (RCE). August 21, 2012: The European Patent Office (EPO) notifies Supernus of an opposition in the corresponding European case, including the citation of undisclosed references.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Indivior’s patent issued in 2017 from the fifth continuation in a series of applications (including four abandoned applications) dating back to a first continuation filed in 2013, and to an earlier application filed in 2009, which published in 2011. wt % to about 58.6 wt %” of the matrix (dependent claim 8).

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Patently-O

APRIL 8, 2024

The decision also provides an interesting case study in the way that the court seems to blend considerations of obviousness and patent eligibility under the umbrella of the “invention” requirement, in a way that may seem foreign to contemporary patent law. Background The patent at issue, U.S. 57, 111 (2011).

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 2, 2022

Historically, the overwhelming majority of decisions have related to inter partes proceedings, such as patent oppositions. Following a peak in 2015, inter partes decisions have been falling, while ex parte decisions have been generally on the rise since 2011. That is, however, no longer true.

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Larson & Larson

MARCH 25, 2021

This is because business method patents have more chances to be challenged. The America Invents Act of 2011 allows people to challenge your patent within the first 9 months after the patent is granted. The need for the right verbiage is particularly acute with business method patents because of how they can be challenged.

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Patently-O

MARCH 18, 2024

Campbell filed a provisional application in 2011 and a non-provisional in 2012 that eventually issued in 2016. The Patent Act includes a 6-year statute of limitations, but as written it only applies to cut-off recovery for patent infringement — and does not apply to lawsuits to correct inventorship. 663 (2014).

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Patently-O

JULY 2, 2024

In the past, both the USPTO and patent attorneys have largely ignored the larger scope of administrative law, but in recent years USPTO operations have been under tighter control from the White House, and courts have increasingly asked whether the agency is following the rules.

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Patently-O

MARCH 1, 2023

The CCPA’s articulation of the basic truth of patent law in Roberts – that the claims define the limits of the invention, and the specification details how the invention is to be practiced – is arguably no longer good law following American Axle. 4] It could be so defined, according to the CCPA. [5] 3d 1057, 1063 (Fed.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 23, 2022

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. Each applicant is obligated to update the patent office anytime their entity status changes.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In 2011, Hormel filed a patent application for the two-step process, omitting HIP’s involvement. The ‘498 Patent was issued from this application in 2018. Hormel conducted testing at Unitherm and later at Hormel. Also, Howard was not named as an inventor. ” On November 6, 2023, the U.S.

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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. Surprisingly, here the report does not mention any protection (or lack thereof) within the IP laws of the country.

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