IP Watchdog

JUNE 25, 2024

The invalidation rate of patents in America Invents Act (AIA) proceedings, such as inter partes reviews (IPRs), has been high since the inception of the PTAB.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The America Invents Act became law in September 2011, but the first-to-invent provisions only took effect for patent applications filed after March 16, 2013. We apply pre-AIA status so long as every claim within the chain-of-priority has an effective filing date prior to the March 2013 date. by Dennis Crouch. AIA § 3(n).

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 7, 2022

The introduction of the PTAB as part of the America Invents Act over ten years ago has forever changed patent litigation. [co-author: Jamie Dohopolski] Love it or hate it, ignore the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) at your peril.

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The IPKat

MARCH 7, 2023

by Giorgia Golzio and Daniele Golzio You might have come across The Simpsons’ episode “ Girls Just Want to Have Sums ”, in which Homer challenges the ability of women to invent. As Marge recalls, Bette Nesmith Graham (1929-1984) invented the first correction fluid in her kitchen in 1951: the so-called Liquid Paper.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JULY 31, 2023

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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IP Watchdog

MAY 15, 2022

Prado portrays Google as a strong supporter of the patent system, citing their history in initiatives to spur new inventions and technologies. For example, Google was a key player in 2013 in starting the Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge (to not sue on open-source software). patent system.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 4, 2025

951/CHENP/2013, which the MadHC upheld, however, by only analysing one objection and deeming the rest unnecessary to be evaluated once one objection has been found to hold water. In view of the above, it becomes unnecessary to examine whether the claimed invention stands excluded from patent protection under Section 3(k) of the Patents Act.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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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JD Supra Law

MARCH 26, 2025

The United States patent system underwent a significant change with the enactment of the First-Inventor-to-File (FITF) provision of the America Invents Act, which became effective on March 16, 2013. The FITF provision transitioned the United States from a First-to-Invent system to a First-Inventor-to-File system.

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Intepat

APRIL 19, 2023

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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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The “patent of addition” in India is a crucial mechanism for protecting improvements or modifications to existing inventions. Unlike standard patents, which cover entirely new inventions, patents of addition enable inventors to safeguard their enhancements while the original patent remains protected.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 8, 2022

The introduction of the PTAB as part of the America Invents Act over ten years ago has forever changed patent litigation. Love it or hate it, ignore the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) at your peril.

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Patentably Defined

JANUARY 31, 2013

Sometimes, the USPTO has a bias against such inventions. it is well-settled, blackletter law that the simplicity of a claimed invention is not adverse to its patentability. 275, 279 (1944)(simplicity of itself does not negate invention). 275, 279 (1944)(simplicity of itself does not negate invention). © 2013, Michael E.

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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). ” Id.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2022

On several occasions since 2013, including most recently with Commissioner Andrew Hirshfeld, the USPTO has adopted a modality for filling a vacancy in the office of the Director, not with an Acting Director as the VRA requires, but with a non-PAS official “designated” to “perform the functions and duties” of the Director.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2023

Background In early 2013, Mr. Jing was hired into a Laboratory at the University of Oxford as a research intern, and contributed to the development of a microscope (the Nanoimager). In Oct 2013, Mr. Jing commenced his DPhil studies (PhD equivalent), signing a contract which included the University’s IP Provisions.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 15, 2024

INTRODUCTION To identify the role of public funded research in the pharmaceutical industry one has to first determine the problems faced by the public in accessing these inventions and the level of patenting activities in the public funded research institutions in the pharmaceutical sector.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. § By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

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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Patently-O

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As the America Invents Act (AIA) turns 10, patent students across the country may be asking: if the law is already a decade old, why am I spending so much time learning pre-AIA law? We estimate that ~90% of patent litigations initiated in 2020 included a patent with an effective filing date before the AIA transition date of March 16, 2013.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

First proposed in 2013 , the UPC is an agreement among 24 countries to create a single expert patent court to assess patent filings from all contracting European states. Hypothetically, if the UPC grants a patent, its inventor has exclusive rights to their invention in 24 EU states.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Thus, a legal safeguard should be provided to inventors for their inventions to keep their interest in science alive. What are the biotechnological inventions? This leads them to think about protecting their inventions from unauthorized use. Patents provide protection to innovations as well as commercialization of inventions.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The invention is a software method that allows customers to purchase assets from multiple vendors. 576, 591 (2013) (isolation of “important and useful gene [is] not an act of invention”). In re Smith , 22-1301 (Fed. Sept 9, 2022) (nonprecedential). . retrieval) of data, which has consistently been held.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Some believe that patents may lead to new inventions and research. 2013) ruled that naturally occurring DNA sequences could not be patented because they are products of nature. One of the most debated issues is human gene patents, which give a person or corporation ownership over who can modify their genetic materials code exclusively.

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Patently-O

MARCH 7, 2023

In addition to the formal paperwork, the original application must sufficiently disclose the invention as claimed in the later patent. Rather, the priority filing date is rendered void and then we consider whether the invention was still novel and nonobvious as-of the later filing date.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In light of the recent UTIDELONE patent grant order by the Indian Patent Office, Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan analyses the tactic to present a pharmaceutical invention as a composition to overcome Section 3(d) scrutiny and how this could be bad in law. Bharathwaj is a 3rd year LLB Student at RGSOIPL, IIT Kharagpur, and loves books and IP.

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IPilogue

APRIL 25, 2022

Zhang and her group at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard also published in Science in 2013, showing the promise of CRISPR/Cas9 in humans. Following the scientists’ publications, the United States transitioned from a first to invent patent system to a first inventor to file system, which became effective in March 2013.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Sgromo owned two patents that he transferred to Scott’s company Eureka Inventions. 251 (2013) (patent attorney malpractice does not arise under the patent laws). Peter Sgromo v. Leonard Scott ( Fed. ” Bestway (USA), Inc. As such, the Federal Circuit does not have appellate jurisdiction. See, Gunn v. Minton , 568 U.S.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 7, 2021

That said, the author acknowledges that these costs declined from 2013-2017, only to once again rise. More specifically, in the words of the author, The decline in the 2013 to 2017 period is largely attributable to post-patent grant review mechanisms. What accounts for this? This is where the article gets interesting.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 16, 2021

SNIPR Technologies Limited v. The Rockefeller University, Pat.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 28, 2025

Post-retirement, she was appointed as the Chairperson of the Intellectual Property Appellate Tribunal (IPAB) from 2011 to 2013. Sridevan : Expert evidence is particularly important in cases involving patents, as the issues often revolve around the inventive step rather than novelty.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 27, 2023

“[Google] know very well what sites are illegal, because we send them notices, a million a week, yet coming on to search, very often those sites appear at the top of search results,” he said in 2013. Google initially refused to downrank pirate sites, arguing that this would only lead to a game of Whack-a-Mole.

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SpicyIP

MAY 4, 2024

The DB examined the 2013 judgment of the Supreme Court in Novartis v. UOI (2013) 6 SCC 1 and reviewed scientific literature to hold: Enhanced bioavailability is a common property associated with the salt form. Union of India 2013, Supreme Court 139.

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 26, 2023

In this case, the PTAB issued a decision on the so-called “interference process” –a procedure that determines, between two or more patents in dispute, which has priority according to the “first-to-invent” system–. SNIPR’s five patents claimed priority from a PCT application filed on May 3, 2013, and were therefore AIA Patents.

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Likelihood of Confusion

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If we didn’t have Leo Stoller we still couldn’t possibly invent him. Originally posted 2013-01-10 16:01:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter. The post The Stoller that lives under the bridge appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As the America Invents Act (AIA) turns 10, patent students across the country may be asking: if the law is already a decade old, why am I spending so much time learning pre-AIA law? We estimate that ~90% of patent litigations initiated in 2020 included a patent with an effective filing date before the AIA transition date of March 16, 2013.

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