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Patent Suits Drop 33% from 2013; 2021 Damages Awards are More Than $1 Billion less than 2012

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Despite the high economic relevance of innovation and explosive invention growth reflected in the number of patents issued annually by the United States Patent and Trademark Continue reading.

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The Federal Circuit Once Again Shows Its Willingness to Reject Conclusory Allegations of Inventiveness

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At step two, the Court found that IBM’s allegations of inventiveness “do[] not. Importantly, “the allegations of inventiveness are not tied to the claims or the specification” and “do not cite the patent at all.” This decision is but one more example that courts “need not accept a patent owner’s conclusory allegations of inventiveness.”

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Protection of Computer-Related Inventions : An Indian Perspective

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INTRODUCTION As technology continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, Computer-Related Inventions (CRIs) have become a crucial component of modern innovation. The Patents Act, 1970, provides for the protection of CRIs, but there has been significant debate over the years regarding the patentability of such inventions in India.

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The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) of 2024: From Oz to Earth

Patently-O

66 (2012), and Alice Corp. The bigger issue is that it is substantially harder to obtain patents and easier to invalidate issued patents -- particularly in cases where the invention lies in software or diagnostic methods. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. , CLS Bank International , 573 U.S. 208 (2014).

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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

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Broad, as senior party, was accorded benefit of its provisional filed December 12, 2012, and CVC, as junior party, was accorded benefit of its provisional filed January 28, 2013. Raible’s zebrafish experiment, the inventors had not actually reduced to practice the invention by August 9, 2012. at 14, 23-24. ” Id.

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The Inventive Concept: Unclear Judicial Guidance Causes Frustration for Inventors

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What is at the core of invention? All inventions boil down to applying some natural law , but where is the line between natural law and invention? ” The most recent Supreme Court case which granted certiorari with regard to an “inventive concept” is Alice Corp. .” By: Banks Griffin.

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Think Twice About Appealing a § 101 Rejection to the PTAB

JD Supra Law

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) established its Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in September 2012. As mandated by the America Invents Act, the PTAB conducts administrative trials, such as inter partes reviews, and handles appeals from examiner rejections of patent applications.