IP Watchdog

AUGUST 26, 2021

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

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The European Patent Office (EPO) has recently released the outcomes of its new study named “ Women’s participation in inventive activity ”, which aims at better understanding the presence of women inventors across different countries, time periods, technology fields and applicant types. 2017; Koning et al.,

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Tale decisione conferma in toto la posizione espressa nel 2020 dalla Sezione ricevente dell’EPO e ribadisce che solo un essere umano può essere designato come inventore nel quadro del sistema retto dalla Convenzione di Monaco (“EPC”). I fatti all’origine della vicenda: il caso DABUS. L’art.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Federal Circuit has ruled that only human beings – and not an artificial intelligence (AI) can be considered an “inventor” under US patent law. (We We wrote about this issue way back in 2017, by the way…). By: AEON Law

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 22, 2023

[ On December 20, the UK Supreme Court affirmed its previous decision to deny registration to inventions by Dr. Stephen Thaler’s AI DABUS, holding that an AI software cannot be listed as an inventor. As discussed here , South Africa and Australia are the only jurisdictions where DABUS has been registered as an inventor.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 8, 2022

In terms of foreign direct investment (FDI), total investments in 2017 exceeded US$24billion. In case, the complete Arabic translation is not ready at the time of filing the application, the inventor can file the application with Arabic translation of the Abstract and Title. percent), followed by Kuwait USD 1.1billion (4.6 Examination.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 6, 2021

2017) (nonprecedential opinion). Here, the court found that the claimed steps were (1) developed by the inventors; (2) not admitted prior art; and (3) yield advantages over the described prior art. T-Mobile USA, Inc., App’x 1014 (Fed. ” But, simplification can quickly suggest abstraction.

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SpicyIP

JULY 13, 2023

For the 25 years prior to 2017-18, foreign patent filings in India were significantly higher than Indian patents. While that level of scrutiny is not yet happening on our domestic front, here are perhaps some basic starting points to initiate such discussions. As explained in Prof.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Developing a Disclosure for Software Patents : Discuss with the inventor the technological underpinnings of the novel functional aspects of the software and how those technological considerations support that function. Ask the inventor to explicitly describe why the invention is more than the expected sum of its parts. Apple Inc. ,

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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. 954 (2017).

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SpicyIP

JUNE 22, 2022

The IPAB, in Bayer v Natco, held that ‘reasonably affordable price’ has to be fixed from the point of view of the public and not the inventor. For example, the report notes a recent German case in 2017 (Merck v. Failing which, a compulsory license can be issued.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The following comes from the Notice: Since 2017, the Federal Circuit has issued numerous decisions applying the Supreme Court’s legal framework in a variety of contexts, and many petitions for writ of certiorari have been filed. Additionally, if you are a patent owner or inventor, please include the number of U.S.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 1, 2023

In July 2017, BMS filed a complaint against AstraZeneca, also alleging that use of AstraZeneca’s IMFINZI (durvalumab) infringes claims of the ‘899 patent. BMS seeks a judgment of infringement of the ’899 patent, damages, and an award of attorneys’ fee and costs due to alleged willful infringement. 1:17-01028 (D.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Since blockchain plays a pivotal role in the crypto market, several inventors have attempted to legally protect the various components of blockchain technology using patents. Most prominently, through its 2020 report, IBM stated that several patents granted to them in 2017 also comprised of blockchain patents.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 19, 2021

.” The AIA’s co-sponsor, Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), stated that the intent of the AIA was to fight against “ patent trolls [that] hurt small businesses and independent inventors.” ” More than one century later, in 2017, the Supreme Court confirmed in Oil States Energy Service, LLC, v.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

The PL came into force on April 1, 2017 and shares with the former Patents Law 11/1986, the provisions that make it compulsory, for reasons of national security, to file the first application for a patent made in Spain at the Spanish Patents and Trademarks Office (SPTO). Compulsory application for protection in Spain.

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The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

125 USPQ2d 1468, 1478 (TTAB 2017). The Board noted that the fact that this patent was issued in Europe has no effect on the Section 2(e)(5) analysis. See Kohler Co. Honda Giken Kogyo K.K. ,

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Pre-Appeal After Corephotonics sued Apple for infringement of the Camera Patents in the Northern District of California in 2017, Apple shot back and filed a number of inter partes review (IPR) petitions challenging the validity of all of the claims asserted by Corephotonics (Apple IPRs).

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 28, 2024

We applaud the USPTO’s efforts to narrow the gender gap and to support inventors and rights holders from minority communities. 13] [link] (“July 2017 estimates for TMNG placed the final cost at $260.7 See [link]. [11] 12] For example, we recommend undertaking a cost–benefit analysis of the IPR Attaché Program. [13]

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Patently-O

MAY 20, 2024

All four patents claim priority to the same 1997 application, and therefore normally would have expired on the same date in 2017, 20 years from that priority date. 1 (1895) (It is the province of the legislative branch of the government to say when a patent to an inventor shall expire.) Some key old cases: Bate Refrigerating Co.

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Patently-O

MAY 15, 2024

1523 (2017). In the wake of Motion Picture Patents , it became even more crucial for inventors and their patent attorneys to invest time and effort into the claim drafting process. These pair of cases played an important role a century later in the Supreme Court’s Impression Products decision. Impression Products, Inc.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

years lower than what it was in 2017 (13 years). Comments The rise in the number of applications filed by Indian residents in comparison to non-resident applicants should definitely be applauded as after consistently lagging behind for years, Indian inventors are finally able to explore the patent system to a similar extent as non-residents.

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Garrigues Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Outside those scenarios, the innovation, results of the research or technological developments cannot be published before the filing date of the patent application, not even by the actual inventor.

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Patently-O

APRIL 18, 2024

Thaler Opening Brief Thaler Amicus Brief Thaler Copyright Office Brief Thaler Reply Brief Thaler Appendix to Appeal Arguments on Appeal : In the parallel patent case, the appellate court found that the Patent Act expressly requires a human inventor based upon the definition of an inventor as an “individual.”

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Corsearch

MARCH 8, 2023

In 2017, I was nominated and selected for the inaugural class of WTR’s ’s WTR300: The World’s Leading Corporate Trademark Professionals. Finally, I’m proud to be an inventor – registering “Techniques for monitoring mobile telecommunications for shared accounts” [Patent Number 7,280,816 issued October 2007 ].”

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The IPKat

JULY 30, 2021

For instance, in 2017 the LG Düsseldorf refused to stay an injunction against replacement heart valves, stating that it could not take into account third-party interests in its decision [ here , at 211 et seq]. Sitting judges seemed to also espouse this view. To list a few: the increased interconnectivity of the "Internet of Things" [e.g.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The case highlights that examiners must move beyond the aspect of assessing the claims solely, but rather analyze the substance of innovation as is also reflected in the 2017 CRI guidelines. The second stage to this argument pertains to how to assess such an invention.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. Most number of patents for blockchains were filed in the year 2017. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. Most number of patents for blockchains were filed in the year 2017. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. Most number of patents for blockchains were filed in the year 2017. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

1, 2017 to Apr. 30, 2024) (R&R) Recommendation: Dastar should block Qingdao’s Lanham Act false advertising counterclaims based on Lashify’s claim to be the originator of lash technology, but false patent marking counterclaims should survive. 11, 2023 (claiming that various products were “patented”).

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The IPKat

AUGUST 15, 2023

Dua Lipa and Warner Music are being sued by talk box inventor and singer, Bosko Kante, for breach of contract and copyright infringement in hit song 'Levitating'. Background The present case is being brought by Bosko Kante who is the inventor of and performer on the ElectroSpit, a digital tubeless talk box.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Intellectual property rights (hereinafter referred to as ‘IPR’) are the legal rights granted to the inventor or creator to safeguard his or her invention or production for a certain period of time. These legal rights grant the inventor, creator, or assignee the only right to fully exploit his invention/creation for a given period.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Samsung argued that there were potential witnesses from non-party Samsung Research America (“SRA”), three of the five named inventors, prosecution counsel for the patents, and third-party AliphCom in the NDCA. March 9, 2022). [23] 23] See id. [24] at 4 (citing Volkswagen , 28 F.4th 4th at 1213). [26] at 6 (citing In re Cray, Inc. ,

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

12620 & 12621 of 2017 , the writs were filed by the applicant of the two patent applications titled ‘Methods of Manufacturing a Paint Roller and Components Parts Thereof’ which had entered the National Phase in India in November 2011. In Chandra Sekar Vs. The Controller of Patents and Designs & Anr.

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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. Indivior , Slip Op. at 9 (citation omitted). ” Id.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

8 ) enables the enactment of copyright and patent law by granting Congress the authority to “ promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. ”. Sarony and citing 17 U.S.C. § 102(a) ; U.S.

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