The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The EPC as it currently stands does not permit a grace period in which inventors may disclose their invention without prejudicing a future patent filing. If the inventor has disclosed their invention during the grace period, then further disclosures by third parties also don't constitute prior art ( AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(1)(A) ).

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JULY 31, 2023

2015) (citing Titanium Metals Corp. 2015) (citing Atofina, 441 F.3d 2012)). Once a patent challenger has established, through overlapping ranges, its prima facie case of anticipation, the court must evaluate whether the patentee has established the claimed range is critical to the operability of the claimed invention.

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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 The challenged patents are related and both trace their priority date to U.S. 321 patent col.

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Patently-O

JULY 22, 2021

Chemours is a 2015 spin-off from Du Pont. However, our invention] has a very narrow molecular-weight distribution. But, to do so pushes against the fundamental inventive concept of Kaulbach of a narrow molecular distribution. The basic idea here is that an obvious valuable invention would already be in the market place.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 27, 2022

In an additional blog post , the author points to similar issues, albeit with weaker similarity, in Kruse’s 2015 book, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. On the surface, these seem simple enough. They are reasonable, if somewhat minor, accusations of plagiarism that warrant further investigation.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

2015) in finding that manufacture and delivery of a product in a foreign country can infringe a US patent if sufficient sales-activity occurred within the US. by Dennis Crouch. The recent Federal Circuit decision in Caltech v. Broadcom includes an important discussion of extraterritorial damages further extending Carnegie Mellon (Fed.

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Olartemoure Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

15, 1938 An inventive way to showcase your festive centerpiece. This clever invention allows the entire Christmas tree to rotate, providing a 360-degree view of decorations and ornaments. 03, 2015 A revolutionary approach to sustainable gift wrapping. This invention is a smoke detector cleverly hidden within the ornament.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 4, 2024

The America Invents Act ("AIA") bars a person from obtaining a patent when the “claimed invention” had been “on sale” more than one year before the filing date of the patent. In 2015, Celanese International Corporation (“Celanese”) filed a patent claiming an improved method of preparing Ace-K. 35 U.S.C. §

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

At that time, Kruse was facing allegations that he had committed plagiarism, first in his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University and later in his 2015 book One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. This led to allegations that he was a “bad actor”.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

However, following the entry into force of Patents Law 24/2015 (PL), we need to reassess whether this is always the best strategy. Such authorization may not be given for inventions of interest to national defense, unless expressly authorized by the Ministry of Defense”. What is an invention made in Spain? of the LP).

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

A patent must teach one skilled in the relevant art how to make and use the claimed invention, as required by 35 U.S.C. p) explains that unless an invention is disclosed such that one skilled in the art will be able to practice it without undue experimentation, at least one operative example of the invention must be set forth.

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Patently-O

APRIL 30, 2024

That claim requires too much follow-on research work and so does not sufficiently disclose the invention. Still, those will likely be unrecognized for their worth until some later date when a human truly invents but is blocked from patenting. Ben Hattenbach & Joshua Glucoft have an interesting 2015 article on point.

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SpicyIP

JULY 14, 2022

It appears that pleadings – notice of opposition, patentee’s reply/evidence and opponents’ response/evidence, were completed largely within prescribed timelines, around March 2015. Despite this, the patentee continued to file further evidence (of two more experts) up to the end of August 2015.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal designated new precedent Wednesday that post-America Invents Act patents don't have to worry about a Federal Circuit ruling regarding the relationship between priority applications and follow-up applications in prior art analysis.

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Patently-O

JULY 22, 2024

Prior to 2015, over 35% of patents were examined by assistant examiners. Experience and Expertise: Primary examiners generally have more experience in examination procedures as well as looking at inventions within their technical field. Our data reveals a dramatic drop in the percentage of assistant examiners over the past decade.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Although in theory the ruling should provide more clarity on the increasingly important question of the patentability of computer-implemented inventions ( CIIs ), the opposing views taken by the two camps of justices may instead create an environment for greater disputation. ’ [16] Is the claimed invention a manner of manufacture? .’

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 2, 2022

Following a peak in 2015, inter partes decisions have been falling, while ex parte decisions have been generally on the rise since 2011. Almost all of these have related to computer-implemented inventions. Historically, the overwhelming majority of decisions have related to inter partes proceedings, such as patent oppositions.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 13, 2024

OpenAI began life in 2015 as a non-profit company, with the self-proclaimed vision of providing humanity with safe and beneficial AI. Further reading Artificial intelligence is not breaking patent law: EPO publishes DABUS decision (J 8/20) (July 2022) Bad cases make bad law: Has DABUS "the AI inventor" actually invented anything?

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 26, 2022

The Court found (at [105]) that: the law relating to the entitlement of a person to the grant of a patent is premised upon an invention for the purposes of the Patents Act arising from the mind of a natural person or persons. Those who contribute to, or supply, the inventive concept are entitled to the grant.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 21, 2023

When Dynamic Drinkware was decided in 2015, commentators debated whether differences in the language of the American Invents Act (AIA) version of 35 USC § 102 would shield AIA patents from its restrictions.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As expected, the Board of Appeal in T 116/18 has now referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) questions on the use of post-filed evidence to establish plausibility for an invention. The post-published data submitted by the patentee were considered fundamental to deciding the question of inventive step. litura and P. xylostella ).

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

Background In 2015, Ironburg Inventions Ltd. (“Ironburg”) sued Valve Corporation (“Valve”) for infringing U.S. . § 315(e)(2); and (2) the “skilled and diligent searcher” inquiry itself with respect to what a skilled and diligent searcher reasonably would have been expected to discover.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2015, Mr. Jing co-founded Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd (ONI). On whether it was “reasonable” to expect invention to be made by Mr. Jing as part of his duties, the Court rejected as irrelevant ONI’s submissions that Mr. Jing was young, inexperienced, had a small salary, and had low status in the University as a research intern.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Alessandro Cerri discussed the recent CJEU decision on the scope of the referential use exception as amended by the 2015 Trade Mark Directive. The decision confirmed that the 2015 Directive had broadened the exception for referential use. We will have to wait and see whether the EBA finds the petition for review admissible.

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Patently-O

APRIL 3, 2022

In an important 2018 decision, the Federal Circuit sided partially with Berkheimer on a procedural eligibility grounds — finding disputed questions of material fact as to whether aspects of the claimed invention were “well-understood, routine, and conventional to a skilled artisan.” 2015 WL 4999954 (N.D. 3d 1360 (Fed.

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SpicyIP

JULY 23, 2021

The White Paper analysed the ‘working’ of patented pesticides in India for patents expiring between 2015 and 2022. This comes in the backdrop of Section 83 of the Patents Act, 1970 which provides the general principles applicable to the working of patented inventions. Impact of Non-Working.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 15, 2023

In an effort to shed light on the practice of filing multiple petitions under the America Invents Act (AIA) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently released a detailed study.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

2015), also known as the Google Books Case. [2] However, the author believes that technological progress warrants a preference for the permissionless innovation principle over the precautionary pursuit of every breakthrough invention in an increasingly evolving digital landscape. Google, Inc., 3d 202, 229 (2d.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

2015), do not apply for post-America Invents Act (AIA) patents. Rapidpulse, Inc., IPR2021-01466, Paper 34 (Mar. 10, 2023), a key issue in inter partes reviews: how to establish a reference patent as prior art based on the filing date of an earlier-filed application, such as a provisional. Nat’l Graphics, Inc., 3d 1375 (Fed.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

MPF claims are a particular type of claim in patent law that allows an inventor to claim an invention based on the function that it performs, rather than the specific structure or materials used. In its important 2015 decision in Williamson v. Functional claiming is a constant lure for patent drafters. Citrix Online , LLC, 792 F.3d

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SpicyIP

MARCH 2, 2025

The office has come out with a well-reasoned and straightforward decision on the patent lacking obviousness/inventive step and patentability under 3(d). The Court noted that no reasoning or any justification has been given as to how the aforesaid prior arts would cover the subject invention.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

May 18, 2015, now abandoned; The ‘462 Application is a continuation of application No. ” [The patentee] failed to provide persuasive evidence demonstrating that a person of ordinary skill would have understood from reading the ’571 application that it disclosed an invention with a range of 48.2 Patent 9,687,454 via IPR.

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Patently-O

APRIL 10, 2024

Dr. Robinson, a neurosurgeon, invented a type of spinal implant. In 2009, Dr. Robinson and Spectrum (collectively “Plaintiffs”) hired law firm FisherBroyles to file patent applications for his inventions. Background Facts and Procedural History The relevant facts are as follows. FisherBroyles filed a provisional U.S.

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Garrigues Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Under the European Patent Convention (EPC) and national patent regulations in the countries that adhere to the Convention, which include Spain, an invention is patentable if it fulfills, among other requirements, the inventive step requirement ( article 54(1), (2) EPC and article 4(1) of Patents Law 24/2015 ).

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The IPKat

JUNE 6, 2024

Events Peter Meier-Beck on 10xGenomics v Nanostring: How are novelty and inventive step to be assessed and should the patent claim be construed first? June 12th, 18:00 – 19:00) How the patentability of an invention is examined and assessed is primarily determined in Europe by the case law of the EPO Boards of Appeal.

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The IPKat

APRIL 2, 2024

The Board of Appeal held that the claimed invention was novel and involved an inventive step. Marcel Pemsel discussed the decisions on the validity of the trade mark applications, filed in 2015, that include the geographical name 'COMPTON'.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Appellant had alleged that despite filing detailed written submissions addressing the objection against the patentability of the invention under Section 2(1)(j) as raised in the examination report, the Respondent issued a cryptic order rejecting the patent application. percent were blocked for copyright infringement.

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