2023 Invention Patent Law Patent Prosecution 
Patently-O
OCTOBER 16, 2023
by Dennis Crouch Impact of Sonos on Patent Prosecution : The recent Sonos v. Google decision threatens to grind to a halt, or at least significantly restrict, a once-common patent prosecution strategy – keeping continuation applications pending for years to obtain new claims that cover marketplace developments.
IPilogue
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
We invite you to participate in the tryouts for the 2022-2023 National Patent Application Drafting Competition ! Originally created in 2014 as a midwest competition, the Competition is today a national inter-law school competition designed to introduce law students to issues arising in United States patent law.
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The IP Law Blog
MARCH 30, 2023
This fee reduction is part of an effort to reduce financial burdens and resulting barriers that discourage or prevent these entities from participating in the patent system. Most of these fee reductions have an effective date of March 22, 2023, with the remaining ones effective as of April 1, 2023.
Patently-O
JANUARY 23, 2024
Vanda Pharmaceuticals recently filed a petition for writ of certiorari , asking the Supreme Court to review a May 2023 decision by the Federal Circuit that invalidated claims from four Vanda patents covering methods of treating Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder (“Non-24”) using the drug tasimelteon (Hetlioz).
The IPKat
JUNE 13, 2024
The cover article of the May 2024 edition of the CIPA Journal proposed a new test for inventive step using AI. The CIPA journal article proposes to use an AI derived measurement of semantic similarity between the claims and the prior art as a new test for inventive step. features, images, text) are represented as vectors and compared.
SpicyIP
JULY 22, 2023
It notes that despite the government initiatives to strengthen India’s IP regime, applying the ‘narrowly focused’ and ‘stringent’ patent laws toward AI applications remains challenging. The GPAI Summit 2023 is scheduled to be held in December in New Delhi.
Patently-O
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
by Dennis Crouch One of the more shocking patent decisions of 2023 was Judge Alsup’s holding in Sonos, Inc. C 20-06754 WHA, 2023 WL 6542320 (N.D. The scathing opinion left two Sonos multi-zone smart-speaker patents unenforceable due to prosecution laches and a rejection of the $32 million jury verdict.
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