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Examining Oppositions: Time for a Deeper Look

SpicyIP

That is to say, ‘applicants’ are interested stakeholders here, and focusing on issues faced by applicants alone, just one of the many stakeholders, does not equate to understanding the patent oppositions mechanism as a whole. of the total published applications. ’. of patent applications)?

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

LexBlog IP

Some people may have anticipated that, in raising the standard of inventive step and introducing stricter requirements for enablement and support of claims, the RtB reforms would result in fewer applications being accepted. I was not one of those people, and I expect that neither were most other patent attorneys. in 2019/20.

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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

Patent Application No. The inventors listed on Broad’s patent are Feng Zhang, Ph.D., and the inventors listed on the CVC application are Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., The inventors listed on Broad’s patent are Feng Zhang, Ph.D., and the inventors listed on the CVC application are Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D.,

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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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Burden of Proof Buffers Patent Owner Misconduct in Patent Revival Case

Patently-O

The parent patent application (APN 11/301,291) received an office action back in 2011 and the case went abandoned six months later. Throughout this time, the same patent attorney (Mr. Weiss) represented Ikan and Amazon presented evidence that both Mr. Weiss and Ikan’s CEO had knowledge of the abandonment back in 2012.

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Artificial Intelligence and IP: A Literature Review

SpicyIP

It further notes that India ranks 8 th in AI patents, and 4 th in terms of AI scholarly papers. 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.

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 15 Attorneys to Principal in Class Distinguished by Diversity of Background and Experience

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

With deep expertise in litigation and patent prosecution and counseling, the attorneys represent clients across a range of industries and in various legal venues. from Cornell University in 2012, double majoring in chemistry and science and technology studies. As a patent attorney registered to practice before the U.S.