IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) released a draft of new measures that would downgrade the ratings of Chinese patent agencies that approve abnormal or fraudulent patents. CNIPA released the draft on October 8, which expands on a trial started in January 2022 in four provinces.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

January 2022 Federal Circuit Newsletter (Japanese) January 2022 Federal Circuit Newsletter (Chinese) Silence May Support Negative Claim Limitation In Novartis Pharmaceuticals v. Accord Healthcare Inc.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

2021-2022 was a big year for the Osgoode’s mooting team entry for the USPTO National Patent Application Drafting Competition. We invite you to participate in the tryouts for the 2022-2023 National Patent Application Drafting Competition ! About the National Patent Application Drafting Competition.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The 2024 Indicator focuses on the developments from 2023 and compares it with the figures from 2022. As the name suggests, the report features facts and figures about different types of IPRs, but this post is limited to the numbers on Patents, specifically focusing on data about the Indian patent regime. million filings (i.e.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 6, 2022

C)-IPD 5/2022 and W.P.(C)-IPD C)-IPD 6/2022, the Petitioner (European Union) filed two writ petitions against two orders passed by the Controller General of Patents for deemed abandonment of its patent applications. In the recent case of The European Union vs. Union of India and Ors.,

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Image with text reading “Keep Calm and Expect Delays” Last week, the Delhi High Court pronounced a decision rebuking a patent applicant for causing unnecessary delays in the patent application process by seeking repeated adjournments and not filing written submissions on time. In the case of FMC Corporation v.

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SpicyIP

JULY 28, 2022

We’re pleased to bring to our readers a 2 part post by Amit Tailor on the recent case Nippon A&L vs The Controller of Patents, which looked into questions of how and to what extent a claim in a patent application can be amended under the Patents Act. vs. THE CONTROLLER OF PATENTS [ C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT)

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We invite you to participate in the tryouts for the annual Patent Application Drafting Competition (PADC)! The winner of each regional round will compete in the National Finals held at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. .

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This is a reminder that submissions to try out for the annual National Patent Application Drafting Competition (PDC) team are due on Friday, October 22 at 3pm ! The winner of each regional round will compete in the National Finals held at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. .

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

On September 22, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) directed patent practitioners to current case law and sections of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) as reminders as the patent practitioners continue to work in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology space. In In re Appl.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 10, 2023

patent applications reached an all-time high in 2022, IBM Corp. fell from its decadeslong position atop the list of companies securing the most granted patents and was replaced by Samsung, according to a report released Tuesday. Although the number of U.S.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Delhi High Court on Non-filing of Written Submission to Delay Patent Application Process. The Controller of Patents where it rebuked the Plaintiff for not filing written submissions in time and thereby delaying the patent application process. on 2 November, 2022 (Delhi High Court) . Image from here.

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Patently-O

MARCH 27, 2025

by Dennis Crouch In a significant decision, the Federal Circuit has established a more rigorous test for determining when a published patent application claiming priority to a provisional application can be considered prior art as of its provisional filing date. 2022-1945 (Fed. In re Riggs , Case No.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2023

companies and inventors still filed more patent applications with the European Patent Office (EPO) than any other country, according to its Patent Index 2022, which was released today. patent applications numbered 48,088, a 2.9% The index showed that U.S. increase from 2021.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 3, 2022

USPTO Proposes Electronic Issuance of Patents - In a notice of proposed rulemaking published last month in the Federal Register (86 Fed. Patent and Trademark Office is proposing to issue patents electronically through its patent document viewing systems (i.e., 71209), the U.S.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 13, 2022

The increasing presence of data-driven solutions in the healthcare and life sciences sector is apparent from the rise in numbers of patents and patent applications. The number of published bioinformatics patents and patent applications in the last decade has nearly doubled. By: MoFo Life Sciences

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced the findings of two reports conducted by third-party academic economists and submitted to Congress late last year, as required by the Unleashing American Innovators Act of 2022 (UAIA).

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 1, 2025

2022-1945 (Fed. 24, 2025) Our Case of the Week explores the power of an examiner to request a rehearing after the Board has entered a decision on an application. In re: Riggs, Appeal No.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 4, 2022

That replacement took effect on September 30. By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

On January 6, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced a Deferred Subject Matter Eligibility Response Pilot Program (the “DSMER Program”). Currently, the USPTO applies a “compact prosecution approach” in examining patent applications. Introduction. We provide a brief overview of this program.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The EPO has released the draft Guidelines for Examination 2022. The new Guidelines will come into force on 1 March 2022. However, it is now clear that the 2022 Guidelines will do little to ameliorate the requirements introduced in 2021. The deadline for submitting a response to the consultation is 15 April 2022.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Key Takeaways - To support the CHIPS Act of 2022, the USPTO initiated a pilot program that provides expedited examination of certain patent applications directed to manufacturing semiconductor devices, potentially reducing the time to patent issuance by between one and two years.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

The Federal Circuit continues to tighten the standards for written description of functional claims, particularly in the biologics realm, which is putting patent applicants in the position of having to pursue narrow claims directed to specific sequences.

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The IPKat

JULY 19, 2022

New approach to description amendments By way of a brief recap, the recent controversy over description amendments began with a significant tightening in the 2021 EPO Guidelines for Examination of the requirement for applicants to amend the description of a patent application in line with the allowed claims ( IPKat ).

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JD Supra Law

MAY 12, 2022

Life sciences patent applications often contain DNA, RNA, and amino acid sequences in the specification, claims, or figures that are required to be provided in the form of a sequence listing.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

On September 22, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. In this chart, Mr. Pairolero analyzed patent application filings in accordance with the country of the patent owner once the patent application granted.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 25, 2023

Killian is involved in an ongoing patent dispute in which the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) rejected claims of his U.S. Patent Application No. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed the ruling in August 2022. 14/450,042 under Section 101. In the petition, Killian claims that the U.S.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Patent Application 15/131,442 (the “’442 Patent”) with claims directed to a method of increasing prostacyclin release in systemic blood vessels of a human to improve vasodilation and reduce hypertension. Background John L. Couvaras filed U.S.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2022

On April 13, 2022, the Federal Court of Australia, on appeal, reversed its 2021 decision that DABUS, an artificial intelligence (AI) machine, qualified as an inventor for a patent application under Australian law. Thaler has filed patent applications in several countries around the world for inventions created by DABUS.

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Patently-O

MARCH 11, 2024

2022-1756 (Fed. The district court had ruled against the patentee (IBM) — finding one patent ineligible and the other not infringed. by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit handed down a mixed decision in Chewy, Inc. International Business Machines Corp. 5, 2024) ChewyvIBM.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 20, 2022

Germany’s Federal Patent Court has set aside a decision by the country’s Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) that refused a patent application naming an artificial intelligence (AI) as the inventor. The application was filed on October 17, 2019, and is titled “Food Container”.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2023

This week, patent data analytics firm IFI CLAIMS published its annual report of the top 50 U.S. patent recipients and the global 250 largest patent portfolios for 2022. The list provides a comprehensive snapshot of the patent landscape with insights into growing trends in the industry.

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Intepat

APRIL 18, 2022

A similar account of inevitable human innovation is also discussed in the World Intellectual Property Report 2022 (“ Report ”) titled as “ The Direction of Innovation ”, very recently published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (“ WIPO ”). In this era, 7% of all patents were from the medical innovation sector.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 9, 2022

On August 5, 2022, in Thaler v. 5, 2022), the Federal Circuit held that an artificial intelligence (“AI”) system cannot be listed as an inventor on a United States patent. 21-2347 (Fed.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 24, 2022

IPKat has also sifted through the 100s of Boards of Appeal decisions published in 2022, to bring you the most eye-catching and relevant to ongoing EPO practice. T 0471/20) (5 Jan 2022) Changes in the draft 2022 EPO Guidelines for Examination on description amendments: Substantial changes or window-dressing? (7

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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. For the chart below, I pulled up records from US patent application publications from the past 10 years and looked at whether the applicant claimed pre-AIA or post-AIA status.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 13, 2023

Last week, the USPTO released its 2022‒2026 Strategic Plan. How are these initiatives likely to affect patent applicants and owners? The Strategic Plan outlines the USPTO’s overarching goals for the coming years. By: MoFo Life Sciences

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