JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 7, 2022

208 (2014), courts, attorneys and inventors have struggled with the metes and bounds of what subject matter can and what cannot be patented. Since the Supreme Court handed down its decisions in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 66, (2012) and Alice v. CLS Bank, 573 U.S. By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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Olartemoure Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

ROTATING CHRISTMAS TREE STAND US1988343A Inventor: Claris F. REUSABLE GIFT-WRAPPING FABRIC US9174783B1 Inventors: Stephanie Grabell and Jodi Kahane Assignee: Wrapeez LLC Date of Patent: Nov. MISTLETOE SUPPORTING HEADBAND US4488316A Inventors: Ronald J. Tacy Assignee: Individual Date of Patent: Jan. Assignee: Conopco Inc.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2023

Operation Gervais Local anti-piracy groups SACEM and ALPA filed a complaint against Zone-Telechargement in 2014. One local report notes that between 2014 and 2016, the pair from Toulouse earned 600,000 euros each for their work on the site. They are seen as the inventors and initiators of a fraud system.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 26, 2021

Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice Corp. As an update to my posts from 2017, 2019, 2020, and March 2021, it has now been 86 months since the U.S. CLS Bank decision.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

An inventor is again pushing for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2014 Alice decision, arguing a separate high court decision in Amgen v. Sanofi backs up his case.

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The IPKat

MARCH 7, 2023

On today's International Women's Day (IWD) The IPKat has received and is pleased to host a contribution by Katfriends Giorgia Golzio and Daniele Golzio reflecting on the contribution of women to technological advancement, with profiles of some notable female inventors throughout history being reviewed too. The same applied to IP.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Court’s denial of opportunities to clarify this issue has caused American inventors to unreasonably weigh the risk of disclosing their inventions against the uncertainty of acquiring a patent. CLS Bank Int’l , decided in 2014. Unclear rules discourage inventors from disclosing their inventions.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 27, 2023

A retired bureaucrat and inventor has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2014 Alice decision, calling it a futile "failed experiment" that allows lower court judges to choose "fantasy over evidence" when considering patent claims.

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IP Law 360

JULY 19, 2023

An inventor advocacy group and a conservative interest group have thrown their support behind a bid asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2014 Alice decision, saying it has had "dire consequences."

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Patently-O

APRIL 10, 2024

By Dennis Crouch In a recent unpublished decision, the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of CPA Global Support Services, LLC (“CPA”) (now part of Clarivate) against a claim of negligent misrepresentation brought by inventor James C. application in March 2014 that issued in 2018. Robinson, M.D.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 9, 2021

898, 901 (2014), the whole claim, “read in light of the specification delineating the patent, and the prosecution history, fail[s] to inform, with reasonable certainty those skilled in the art about the scope of the claim” and 35 U.S.C. § Dr. Chang is also the listed inventor of the patent here and is CEO of the petitioner Rain Computing.

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Patently-O

MAY 24, 2022

208 (2014), extending Mayo ‘s holdings to abstract ideas and computer implemented inventions. In some ways, this is like the claimed process in Diehr , but instead of using the Arrhenius equation the inventors here just use an unstated algorithm. The court followed-up two years later with Alice Corp.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In 2014, Amgen sued Sanofi for infringing on its patents concerning drugs for lowering cholesterol. In their amicus brief, the National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP) stated that the court’s reasoning “leaves patent practitioners guessing about how to advise client-inventors regarding the extent of disclosure required”.

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Patently-O

JUNE 23, 2024

She wrote, “A patent is an inventor’s property, and royalties are the income she receives from licensing it. To escape from the labyrinth, the great inventor Daedalus created wings for himself and his son Icarus using feathers and wax. 208 (2014); and Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. MercExchange, L.L.C. ,

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If a patent isn't granted after the first application, inventors can just keep filing continuations and motions for reconsideration. He argues-- If that wrapper is filled with the examiner's repeated rejections to certain claims and the inventor repeatedly appeals those rejections, it suggests low quality. Focusing on the U.S.,

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Patently-O

AUGUST 26, 2022

2:21-cv-00126-JRG-RSP) (not available on line for free from what I can see) addressed an accused infringer’s argument that the assignment of the patent-in-suit from the sole inventor (Afana) to the plaintiff, Mobile Equity, was ineffective, and so the patentee lacked standing. Walmart (Case No. Taylor Made Plastics, Inc., 3d 916 (M.D.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The statistics demonstrated that from 2014-2018, men filed 62.5% The team put on weekly podcasts to spotlight women inventors and held sessions with outside experts to help women with IP processes. of patent applications, 31.4% of applications involved both genders or were gender neutral, and women filed 6.2%.

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Patently-O

JULY 8, 2022

” Tropp recently petitioned the Supreme Court seeking a writ of certiorari on the following question: Inventor David Tropp owns and practices two patents that disclose a solution to the problem of screening all passenger luggage for flights originating in the United States, following the September 11 attacks. 208 (2014).

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IIPRD

JUNE 13, 2024

Analyzing the convergence of AI and IPR laws, it elucidates the challenges and ambiguities in recognizing AI as inventors or creators. Ai doesn’t understand what it’s doing in the way that a person does but functionally what it is doing is the same thing that an author or an inventor may be doing.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2023

The filing date of the patent was March 28, 2014, but it claimed through a chain of priority back to a 2004 provisional patent. Rather, the Federal Circuit wants to see that the disclosure reflects what the inventor believed to be his invention. The courts want to see what the inventor knew and when he knew it.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In particular, we know that the first-inventor-to-file provision found in 102(a)(2) spells out, as the name suggests, that a prior-filed patent application (once it becomes public) will serve as prior art against a later filed patent application. And, as you recall, Pasteur’s 2014 patent is not prior art. See Baxter.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Women inventors are making significant strides, leaving an indelible mark on the world of innovation and intellectual property. In India, the “share” of female inventors who filed patent applications between 2019-2021 was 10.2%. of all inventors , with men making up the remaining 83.8%.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” (For a comment, see here ) The DABUS team (the Artificial Inventor Project ) starting testing copyright law back in 2018, seeking to register with the US Copyright Office (USCO) A Recent Entrance to Paradise , an image created by DABUS. Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Patent Office is not supposed to issue separate patents for the same invention to competing inventors. Several statutory provisions empower the Office to reject pre-AIA patent application claims of the later inventor. But sometimes it’s not clear who is the later inventor. Those provisions are therefore unhelpful.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 7, 2024

However, in 2014, the Delhi High Court in Sukesh Behl V. Some experts suggest that the 2014 ruling aligns Section 8 more closely with the ‘Inequitable conduct’ defence in US patent law, due to its similarities in jurisprudence. Form 3 failed to disclose the information about the cessation.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 31, 2023

2014/0183326 (the ’326 application) dubbed “Halloween Pumpkin/Jack-O-Lantern Display Stand,” which faded into the abyss following a sinister scrimmage with the USPTO. Had the inventor infused the subject matter from one or more of these claims into the independent claims, the patent might have emerged from the murky mire.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 6, 2022

208 (2014), courts, attorneys and inventors have struggled with the metes and bounds of what subject matter can and what cannot be patented. The Alice/Mayo test has left courts, attorneys and inventors with an ambiguous and amorphous process of determining whether an invention is the proper subject matter for a patent.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 1, 2023

Additionally, it seeks to develop a public platform where inventors and producers can communicate with users and purchasers. iii] Bayer Corporation vs. Union of India 2014 (60) PTC 277 (Bom). [iv] “Commercialization of IPRs”- Profit from IPRs by commercialising them. IPR commercialization will increase value. Ltd & Ors.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Unfortunately, the inventors of the ‘902 and ‘707 applications had to deal with the Grinch known as prior art. Neither application was distinguishable over the cited prior art, leaving each inventor with a modern day lump of coal – an abandoned patent application.

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Patently-O

MARCH 18, 2024

The patent at issue, originally naming a single inventor (Steve Campbell), claims a lightweight intermodal container system for transporting refrigerated gaseous fluids. Under § 256, correcting inventorship requires comparing the alleged co-inventor’s contributions against the invention as claimed. 663 (2014).

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

MARCH 30, 2021

Conception is the formation, in the mind of the inventor, of a definite and permanent idea of a complete and operative invention. 3d 998, 1000 (2014). 3d 998, 1000 (2014). Solvay S.A. Honeywell International , 742 F.3d Reduction to practice requires that the claimed invention work for its intended purpose. Solvay S.A.

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Patently-O

MARCH 13, 2024

To be considered analogous art, a reference must either be (1) from the same field of endeavor as the claimed invention or (2) reasonably pertinent to the particular problem addressed by the inventor, regardless of the field in which that reference was working. In re Bigio , 381 F.3d 3d 1320 (Fed. In re Clay , 966 F.2d 2d 656 (Fed.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2023

” Amgen sued Sanofi in 2014, alleging that Sanofi had infringed its cholesterol-lowering drug patents. The requirement facilitates public access to technical information needed to understand and use the invention and encourages innovation by rewarding inventors for their contributions to the field. § 112.

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More Than Your Mark

AUGUST 20, 2021

An example of this is a 2014 initiative by Hasbro, Inc. , Those with concerns over trademark infringement may consider contacting the source of the 3-D print to obtain clearance to make products using the source. the toy company that owns the My Little Pony intellectual property.

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Patently-O

APRIL 30, 2024

See my 2014 post. Services like All Prior Art are using AI to churn out and ‘publish’ many millions of generated texts, hoping some will preempt future patent applications. These disclosures are often obscure, ambiguous and technically deficient and do nothing to promote the progress of the useful arts.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 3, 2023

However, in a tale of legislative fortune, India’s Bayh Dole Bill was withdrawn in 2014. The committee was to submit the report by June 2014. At the same time, South Africa also rolled a similar “Bayh Dole” ball. However, it is unclear if this was done. Nevertheless, the bill eventually lapsed.

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IIPRD

MARCH 4, 2024

Patents : – It is a right which is granted to protect the interest of an invention, to protect the interest of the inventors for their new inventions. 24863/2014. [3] It is different from copyrights as patents is granted for industrial and commercial purpose and copyrights is given for artistic and literary work. 2] Novartis v.

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