The IPKat

JANUARY 16, 2025

The Opponent, Avl List GmbH, challenged the patent's validity based on several grounds, including prior public use as evidenced by a user manual describing the invention. A more nuanced standard to the assessment of evidence for prior use? Both parties appealed the OD decision.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2023

25 sequence listing added to the pages of a divisional has now been issued ( OJ EPO 2023, A98 ). 26 sequence listing requirement for divisionals but compromises on excess page fees US versus EPO on functional inventions The biggest patent event across the pond this year was the US Supreme Court decision in Amgen v Sanofi.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 5, 2024

2023-1336 (Fed. The basic holding is that the 102(a)(2)/(b)(2) safe harbor triggered by an inventor’s pre-filing “public disclosure” of the invention requires that the invention be made “reasonably available to the public.” ” Neither public uses nor private sales satisfy this requirement.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Here, the Federal Circuit has affirmed that the claims are invalid based upon a pre-filing trade-show display of the ornamental plant — holding that the display counted as a “public use.” ” The inventors here used conventional plant breeding to create a new form of petunia (Calibrachoa). Microsoft Corp.,

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

2021-2246 ] (February 15, 2023), the Federal Circuit affirmed summary judgment that the asserted claims of U.S. 9,186,208 on surgical devices for a procedure called endometrial ablation were anticipated under the public use bar of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § Hologic, Inc., § 102(b).

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Trading Secrets

APRIL 18, 2023

Disclosure of Patentable Ideas To figure out if disclosing invention details to ChatGPT is a public disclosure under patent law, we need to see if it can be categorized as a description in a printed publication, public use, or public sale. enablement). enablement). Thankfully, the U.S.

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Invention Confidentiality Privacy Public Use 59

LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2023

Disclosure of Patentable Ideas To figure out if disclosing invention details to ChatGPT is a public disclosure under patent law, we need to see if it can be categorized as a description in a printed publication, public use, or public sale. enablement). enablement). Thankfully, the U.S.

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