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. June 2023) The morality (and patentability) of inventions derived by immoral means (T 2510/18) (Oct 2024) Image credit: Midjourney

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Intellectual Property Brief

MARCH 23, 2023

The public display of simply a prototype of a patentable technology for marketing purposes, over a year prior to its patenting, is enough to rule that the technology is in public use, ready for patenting, and is thus invalid. Minerva Surgical Inc. filed a patent for a medical device called the Aurora. The Aurora is.

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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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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Addressing the public use bar of pre-America-Invents-Act (AIA) 35 U.S.C. § 15, 2023) (Prost, Reyna, Stoll, JJ.). Minerva Surgical, Inc. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Hologic, Inc., 21-2246 (Fed. By: McDermott Will & Emery

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 10, 2024

It’s the first important step towards protecting owner’s rights and its lawful public use. Well, it helps in commercialisation of the invention by allowing its public use. 2023, August 11). While facilitating technology transfer, it is significant to look at how IP rights play a role. PUTRA SCIENCE PARK.

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The TTABlog

AUGUST 6, 2024

2023-1308 (Fed. The appellate court noted that a gabion is a metal cage that may be filled with rocks and used in constructing dams, embankments, and other structures. Its finding that the public used the proposed mark generically was supported by substantial evidence. Shepherd Company, LLC , Appeal No. August 1, 2024).

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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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TorrentFreak

JULY 13, 2023

Unanimous Approval from Both Houses On March 22, 2023, the new bill was unanimously approved by the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament. The fact that Italian football clubs still owed the state nearly half a billion euros in unpaid taxes from 2020 felt like a footnote referencing a small cash flow issue.

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IPilogue

MARCH 27, 2023

As the world entered January 2023, many excitedly anticipated that Disney’s copyright protection of Mickey Mouse in the United States (US) would expire at the end of 2023, allowing Mickey Mouse to enter the public domain as of January 1, 2024.

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Trading Secrets

OCTOBER 28, 2024

To that end, Plaintiffs allege that Gandall was fired in February 2023, and allege that Gandall allegedly misappropriated Trilobios trade secrets immediately following and several months before his termination. Or that Gandall began doing business purportedly related to Trilobios business with another Trilobio investor in May 2023.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 21, 2023

Feb 1, 2023, is the new deadline for providing comments to the USPTO on this RFC. How should the USPTO facilitate an applicant’s submission of prior art that is not accessible in the Patents End-to-End Search system ( e.g., “on sale” or prior public use)? Commenters are welcome to respond to any or all of the questions.

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The IPKat

JUNE 2, 2024

The opponents argued that the CT.gov summary anticipated the claimed subject-matter and that the clinical trials itself constituted prior public use of the invention. The clinical trial summary did not disclose the chemical structure of the drugs but did disclose their mechanisms of action.

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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). The court in Hurry Family Revocable Tr.

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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). The court in Hurry Family Revocable Tr.

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Invention Confidentiality Privacy Public Use 59

The TTABlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

88781464 and 88781470 (July 28, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Mark Lebow). Genericness: The Board found that the word “sneaker(s)” is generic for retail services featuring sneakers because it is a term that the relevant public uses or understands to refer to a key aspect or subcategory of the genus, which Nike did dispute.

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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). The court in Hurry Family Revocable Tr.

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IP Intelligence

JULY 19, 2024

July 7, 2023). [2] AI also cannot hold a USPTO account or independently access a practitioner’s account. While AI tools offer significant efficiencies for USPTO practice, human judgment and technical expertise remain indispensable. Authors: Sean Holder and Nikki Sanford [1] See Opinion and Order on Sanctions at 2, Mata v. Avianca Inc.,

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Despite the EPO's continued insistence that the issue is settled ( IPKat ), we can expect the issue to rumble on into 2023. It is a shame the EPO's otherwise heart-warming story perpetuates a common misconception among independent inventors that testing your invention in public is fine from a patenting perspective.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

No earlier than July 31, 2023 per settlement. No earlier than November 20, 2023 per settlement. . No earlier than June 30, 2023 per settlement. No earlier than September 30, 2023 per settlement. No earlier than July 1, 2023 per settlement. No earlier than January 31, 2023 per settlement. January 2021.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

These are (i) failing to effectively realise the subject innovation; (ii) the need to alleviate unaddressed health or safety needs; (iii) failure to meet the requirements of public use of the invention; and (iv) failure of contractual obligations, especially under s.

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Patently-O

JULY 31, 2024

How long the descendible right lasts beyond the initial 10-year period depends on continued “authorized public use of the voice or visual likeness of the individual.” Post-mortem rights The NO FAKES digital replica right survives the individual for a minimum of life+10 and a maximum of life+70. What about the First Amendment?

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Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

WPL demonstrated that the SAS Language should be filtered because it is open and free for public use. World Programming Ltd., — F.4th 4th — (Fed. WPL showed that many Input Formats and Output Designs in the current SAS System are identical or nearly identical to those in SAS 76 and should be filtered.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How should the USPTO facilitate an applicant’s submission of prior art that is not accessible in the Patents End-to-End Search system ( g., “on sale” or prior public use)? Written comments must be received by the USPTO on or before January 3, 2023 to ensure consideration.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 31, 2025

2003-2023: image only, 200K office actions, image+text, 500K office actions. In class 25, apparel, for all 2023 live marks, only 50 of the 1400 noncolor design search code categories are not claimed (e.g., Could companies actually retain rights to marks they havent been using in years based on consumers continuing use of these names?

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

On December 6, 2023, Bob Woodward and other defendants moved to dismiss claims brought against them by former President Donald J. Trump Woodward’s publication, The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump, an audio-book also released in print. What did those papers say?

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