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SNIPR Tech. Ltd. v. Rockefeller Univ., No. 22-1260 (Fed. Cir. July 14, 2023)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

This case addresses certain implications of the Laehy-Smith America Invests Act (AIA), namely whether patents with a filing date after March 16, 2013 (pure AIA patents) may be part of an interference proceeding under pre-AIA, 35 U.S.C. § patent system from a first-to-invent system to a first-to-file system.

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Op Ed: Reflections on the American Invents Act on its Tenth Year Anniversary 

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The America Invents Act (AIA), which passed on September 16, 2011, brought about some of the most significant changes to our patent system in over 50 years. By 2013, the USPTO had completed substantially most of the initial AIA rulemaking, including for the post-patent grant review proceedings. . Lee may be affiliated.

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UCB, Inc. v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc. No. 2021-1924, (Fed. Cir. Apr. 12, 2023)

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Actavis”) submitted an ANDA application for approval of a generic version of Neupro’s original formulation in 2013. In 2019, UCB again sued Actavis, this time asserting Actavis’ 2013 ANDA application infringed the ‘589 patent. Neupro’s original formulation has a rotigotine to PVP ratio of 9:2. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc. 3d at 871).

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The Chicken Sandwich Wars: A Sampling of Intellectual Property Law in the Fast Food Industry

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A 2015 court case and trade secret law help shed some light on this question. In 1987, a man by the name of Norberto Colón Lorenzana claimed to have invented the chicken sandwich while employed for a Church’s Chicken franchise in Puerto Rico. Upon graduation, he intends to practice transactional law.

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Trinity Info Media, LLC, fka Trinity Intel Media, LLC, v. Covalent, Inc., No. 2022-1308 (Fed. Cir. July 14, 2023) (“Opinion”)

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The challenged patents both teach a similar claimed invention that is “directed to a poll-based networking system that connects users based on similarities as determined through poll answering and provides real-time results to the users.” ’321 576, 589 (2013)). Provisional Application No. 61/309,038, filed on March 1, 2010. Alice Corp.

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In re Couvaras, No. 2022-1489 (Fed. Cir. June 14, 2023)

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Reasoning In affirming the Board’s conclusion that a motivation to combine existed to render the invention obvious, the Federal Circuit focused on the fact that both GABA-a agonists and ARBs were known to be useful in the treatment of hypertension. Rea , 762 F.3d 3d 1346 (Fed.

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

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Between 2009 and 2013, the rate at which applications subject to the former (i.e. 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. of cases in 2013/14 to 5.1%