SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. We have also included a list of other notable IP developments of 2023. The judgement was passed in October 2022, but was uploaded in September 2023 on the High Court’s website. A special thanks to Mr. G.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Patent Application No. 18/140,658, entitled “Interacting with a Language Model using External Knowledge and Feedback,” in April 2023. The application published on October 31, 2024, and became available for public inspection. It filed U.S. By: Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In the recent UK case of Philip Morris v BAT [2023] EWHC 2616 (Pat) , His Honour Justice Hacon (Hacon HHJ) considered the standard for invalidity due to added matter. Invalidity in view of added matter is a common patent pitfall in Europe ( IPKat ).

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 22, 2024

In 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) reversed examiners’ decisions in about 30% of appeals, and only in about 7% of appeals related to patent applications for business methods, which include financial technology (fintech) inventions.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 27, 2023

On 20 December 2023 the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the long-running saga of the DABUS patent applications in the United Kingdom.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 23, 2023

As predictions of an economic recession in the United States loom, 2023 has started with extensive layoffs throughout the tech industry. Though not to an equal degree, the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and life science industries have not been excluded from employment cuts.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

So for the moment, the position under the UK patent system is that AI is very much a tool rather than an autonomous agent in its own right. As such, in terms of predictions for the coming year, the commencement of consultations on changes to the UK patent system in light of AI feels like a safe bet.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This week, the UK supreme court finally rejected the appeal by Dr Thaler to have DABUS named as an inventor on a patent application. 25 sequence listing added to the pages of a divisional has now been issued ( OJ EPO 2023, A98 ). 26: Is it time for patent offices to enter the bioinformatic age? Looking beyond ST.26:

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 14, 2023

"This application claims priority to [properly identified earlier-filed application, the disclosure of which is expressly incorporated herein in its entirety" is a phrase commonly found in patents and patent applications as an attempt to bolster disclosure without burdening the specification unnecessarily.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2023

On 2 June 2023, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) received its first patent challenge of its existence. The UPC is a new patents court which came into force on 1 June 2023, made up of judges who are nationals of EU Member states that are participating in the UPC. What is the UPC?

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Patent Center is slated to fully replace the legacy EFS-Web system and Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR) tool on November 8, 2023. The USPTO continues to host virtual training events to help users transition to the new tool. By: WilmerHale

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Patently-O

JANUARY 3, 2024

After talking again with Jane, EL decided to patent the device. He initially filed a provisional patent application in June 2020. That was followed by a non-provisional patent application in January 2021 claiming priority back to the provisional. Question 3. What do you think?

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JD Supra Law

JULY 28, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office to reject patent applications directed to biotechnology-related inventions, held (In re Brana) that utility of such inventions did not require demonstration of therapeutic effectiveness, those determinations being the purview of the FDA.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office announced that the Patent Center system will fully replace the EFS-Web system and the Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR) tool for the electronic filing and management of patent applications beginning on November 8, 2023.

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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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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 5, 2023

March 10, 2023) In a PTAB decision that was recently designated precedential, the Board made two important decisions concerning provisional patent applications. Critically, the Board held that the America Invents Act (AIA) brought forth a change in how provisional patent applications are considered in the prior art analysis.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 14, 2023

We are pleased to announce that the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies (IUCIPRS), CUSAT, and Third World Network are jointly organizing the 4th edition of their workshop on ‘Patent Opposition in the Pharmaceutical Field’ between April 24-28, 2023. The last date to apply for the workshop is March 25, 2023.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 3, 2024

So for the moment, the position under the UK patent system is that AI is very much a tool rather than an autonomous agent in its own right. The court unanimously found that AI cannot. The court unanimously found that AI cannot.

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down many patents on the grounds that they are invalid as directed to an abstract idea, relying on the Supreme Court’s Alice decision. 12/20/2023) 2023 U.S. Certain other categories are “patent-ineligible subject matter:” laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JULY 31, 2023

In 2014, UCB sued Actavis for infringement of the Muller patents. UCB prevailed in the lawsuit, and was awarded an injunction against Actavis until March 2021, when one of the Muller patents expires. In 2018, UCB filed a new patent application (the “’589 patent”, priority date 2009) covering a reformulation of Neupro.

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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. years in 2023.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) published a notice regarding supplemental guidance for PTO personnel examining design patent claims containing computer-generated images. 80277 (Nov. By: McDermott Will & Emery

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 21, 2023

On March 6, 2023, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced the addition of a new category for its Patents for Humanity Awards Program: Green Energy. patent or patent application directed to green energy technologies, such as wind, solar, green hydrogen, hydropower, geothermal, and biofuel technologies.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 8, 2023

The recent High Court decision in Ensygnia v Shell ( [2023] EWHC 1495 (Pat) ) is highly relevant to the ongoing controversy of claim interpretation and description amendments ( IPKat ). The UK approach to claim interpretation under Article 69 EPC contrasts with the EPO's approach.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

To support the National Cancer Moonshot initiative, the USPTO launched the Cancer Moonshot Expedited Examination Pilot Program on February 1, 2023. The new program replaces the Cancer Immunotherapy Pilot Program, which expedited examination for eligible patent applications pertaining to methods of treating cancer using immunotherapy.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 22, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a unanimous decision in the case of Amgen Inc. After a nine-year saga, beginning when Amgen sued Sanofi for allegedly infringing two of its patents in 2014, the Supreme Court held that Amgen’s asserted patents failed to satisfy the enablement requirement under 35 U.S.C. §

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JULY 25, 2023

Within hours after the meeting, Berardi built his own prototype and three months later filed a patent application, which was granted as one of the six patents. The other five patents involve subject matter related to the first patent. Tristar counterclaimed to correct the inventorship of the six patents.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 17, 2023

Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that it will no longer issue patents in a printed “ribbon copy” form as of April 18, 2023. Instead, patents will now only be issued electronically in a digital form. By: Bodman

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

As 2023 commences, it’s time for companies to review and take stock of their intellectual property assets. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws. An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain.

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The IPKat

APRIL 2, 2024

December, January, February - wake the IPKat up in March Back in December - when it was colder and darker - London's patent practitioners attended AIPPI UK’s annual patent round-up event hosted by Hogan Lovells. Over to Ada : "Before the starters, the chefs served hors d'oeuvres consisting of some outcomes from 2023.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Patent Center Replaces EFS-Web and Private PAIR - On November 15, following a one-week delay, the legacy EFS-Web and Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (Private PAIR) systems were officially retired and fully replaced by the Patent Center system. By: WilmerHale

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Following the same mission, the Indian Patent Office has taken a drive to dispose off the patent applications in a quicker way, provided all the procedures are properly attended by the applicant. In the way, an application was filed on 13/07/2022 for obtaining the patent protection for an Indian Applicant.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 25, 2023

In a per curium order issued under seal May 3, 2023 but recently made public, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board awarded sanctions against Patent Owner, Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics, cancelling all challenged claims of its five asserted patents for its “egregious abuse of the PTAB process.” See , 37 C.F.R.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 3, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office delayed the effective date of its controversial incentivized transition to DOCX format for patent application filing. By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JUNE 20, 2023

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The IPKat

AUGUST 13, 2024

This is perhaps not surprising, given that patent applications are not published until 18 months after they are filed, and that OpenAI's major innovation of ChatGPT was first released about 2 years ago. This year, eleven OpenAI patents and patent applications have been published.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 13, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office announced that it will start issuing patents electronically under a new digital USPTO seal and bearing the digital signature of the USPTO Director beginning on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

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