article thumbnail

SpicyIP Tidbit: CGPDTM Calls for Comments and Suggestions on Different IP Manuals and Guidelines

SpicyIP

There is no date of introduction or revision on the Design Manual but considering that it was introduced by the then Controller General P H Kurien, who served on this position till 2012, it is safe to assume that the Manual was introduced before 2012. Lastly, the GI Manual, was last updated in 2011.

IP 110
article thumbnail

Analysing Dipak Ranjan Mukherjee vs. Ministry of Commerce & Industry in Context of Transparency, Privacy and the RTI Act

SpicyIP

Having freelanced as a patent research analyst, he developed an interest in patent prosecution and in exploring the Patents Act through various interpretative approaches. He is currently engaged in WIPO-Harvard Law School Course in Patent Law and Global Public Health. course at NLSIU Bangalore.

Privacy 111
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Hyatt Returns to SCOTUS with Request to Clarify Standard for Summary Judgment, APA Scope of Review Provisions

IP Watchdog

Supreme Court asking the Justices to weigh in on his challenge of a policy he alleges the USPTO implemented in the 1990s to categorically deny him issuance of any additional patents. Hyatt has been embroiled in litigation with the USPTO for decades and won a previous Supreme Court appeal in 2012. .

Inventor 115
article thumbnail

Online Course for Patent Agent Exam Preparation [February 5]

SpicyIP

Apart from this, I will separately send out a drafting template for specification, and a complete patent prosecution file to the registrants on their email address. I have also recently published a book on Patent Law and Practice that is useful for exam takers. The book is available on Amazon and Flipkart.

article thumbnail

Fish & Richardson Elevates 17 Attorneys to Principal 

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Dr. Caleb Bates focuses his practice on intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patent prosecution, strategic counseling, and worldwide patent portfolio management in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields. Patent & Trademark Office. Will Freeman focuses his practice on patent litigation in U.S.

article thumbnail

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

The inventors listed on Broad’s patent are Feng Zhang, Ph.D., 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. Le Cong, Ph.D., Fei Ran, Ph.D., Patrick Hsu, Ph.D., Randall Platt, Ph.D., at 14, 23-24.

article thumbnail

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

LexBlog IP

In particular, expedited examination under the Global Patent Prosecution Highway (GPPH) program rose from just 2.7% Finally, the most recent data confirms (once again) that the duration of patent prosecution (i.e. of cases in 2013/14 to 5.1% in 2019/20.