SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Finance Minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 presented the Union Budget 2025-26 in the parliament. Here goes my attempt at a round-up on these fronts for the Budget 2025-26! If readers have some insights and thoughts on what else to look for in the Budget 2025-26, do let us know!

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The IPKat

JANUARY 26, 2025

The Guidelines were released by the Pontifical Commission have been in force within Vatican City State since 1 January 2025. Our Kat reflects on whether this decision raises questions about the current sufficiency/enablement standard for therapeutic use inventions and the prior art that may be cited against them.

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The IPKat

MARCH 24, 2025

Super kids Seven-year-old named Callie from Manchester won the Kids Invent Stuff and Taskmaster Education Competition supported by the UK's Intellectual Property Office. The winning invention was a bath tub that shoots tasks out one end and poops rubber ducks out of the other, which as the winning idea got made IRL. See you there!

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SpicyIP

APRIL 7, 2025

WIPO Academy, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the Korea Invention Promotion Association (KIPA), and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) are inviting applications for the annual Advanced International Certificate Course (AICC) on Intellectual Property Asset Management for Business Success.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 9, 2025

If you are concerned your companys innovations are not being identified and evaluated for possible patent protection, resolve to implement or improve an invention capture process early in 2025. By efficiently identifying valuable inventions and taking steps to pursue patents, your company can gain a competitive edge.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In 2025, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is scheduled to once again bring man and machine to the lunar surface, this time under the name of the Greek goddess Artemis. However, the means to the ends have changed.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

CRI Guidelines 2025 is out for Public Consultations! The Draft Guidelines for Examination of Computer-Related Inventions (CRI), 2025, has been published for public consultation. Interested stakeholders can provide their comments on the guidelines by April 15, 2025. Read the post for more details.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

[Sponsored] CRISP (BITS Law School) Invites Applications for Innovation Law and Policy Fellowship (1 April 2025) Centre for Research in Innovation Law for Shared Prosperity, BITS Law School is inviting applications for their Innovation Law and Policy Fellowship. The last day to send your applications is April 1, 2025.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Inventive step of manufacturing The main issue on appeal was whether the use of SPy intermediate was obvious. The closest prior art identified for inventive step by the Board of Appeal was the composition of matter (CoM) case for AMG 416 ( WO 2011/014707 ). There is also the question of how easy the patent would be to design around.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2025

GuestKats and InternKats will start in February 2025. The deadline for submissions to the IPKat Book of the Year awards is 31 January 2025. Winners will be announced in February 2025. EPIP Annual Conference 2025. The deadline for submissions is 26 January 2025. Call for submissions to issue 3/2025 of JLMI.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 2, 2025

Other Posts Amazon Owns Your E-Books and Wants More As of 26th February, 2025, Kindle users will no longer be able to use the feature Download or Transfer via USB, for Kindle Purchased books, as Amazon is discontinuing the feature. on 25 February, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Image from here. Case Summaries Lifestyle Equities Cv & Anr.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

Section 100 empowers the central government to use, or authorise to use, an invention (application or grant) for the purposes of the government, on a non-commercial basis. This includes but is not limited to using the invention in case of national emergency or other situations of extreme urgency.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Comments Invited on AI Governance and Guidelines Development Report (February 27) The office of CGPDTM has invited comments on the Draft Guidelines for Processing Patent Applications of Ayush Systems and Related Inventions for providing clarity on the filing and processing of patent applications of Ayush Systems and related inventions.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced the finalized patent fee increases which will be taking effect on January 19, 2025. The USPTO, while exercising their fee-setting authority under the America Invents Act of 2011 (AIA), stated these fee adjustments are. These fee changes include an average increase of 7.5

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Comments Invited on AI Governance and Guidelines Development Report (February 27) The office of CGPDTM has invited comments on the Draft Guidelines for Processing Patent Applications of Ayush Systems and Related Inventions for providing clarity on the filing and processing of patent applications of Ayush Systems and related inventions.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This often makes IPR inaccessible to the very ones who create as well as consume such inventions and expressions, such as the creators, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and the general public. These formidable cheroots are the technical language that shrouds IP rights (not always the pompous quips just to make the IPR seem important enough!).

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

On April 3, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a 266-page Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on “Setting and Adjusting Patent Fees during Fiscal Year 2025” (89 FR 23226), with proposed selective and in some cases extraordinary increases in fees for the fiscal years 2025-2029.

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IP.com

APRIL 9, 2025

On January 19, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) enacted significant fee increases for both patents and trademarks. This helps you pinpoint which innovations hold patent potential and commercial promisereducing the risk of investing in inventions that are redundant or low-value.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Inventive step On inventive step, the Local Division found that the prior art disclosed most features of the claimed system, with the only difference being that it did not expressly specify using NFC/RFID as the second protocol.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 4, 2025

A Single Bench of the MadHC, headed by Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, delivered an intriguing judgment on February 27, 2025, in Navya Network Inc. Ultimately, the Controller rejected the patent application on two main grounds: that it was not an invention under Section 3(k) and that it lacked an inventive step under Section 2(1)(ja).

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The IPKat

MARCH 13, 2025

The EPO generally permits functional definitions provided that a skilled person would have no difficulty in providing some means of performing this function without exercising inventive skill (EPO Guidelines for Examination, F.IV-2.1 In its decision, the Court of Appeal disagreed with the Local Division's finding.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

5 Proven Steps to Protect Your Intellectual Property in 2025 In a world where ideas are currency, protecting intellectual property (IP) has ne ver been more critical. IP typically falls into the following categories: Patents : Cover inventions, processes, and designs that are new, useful, and non-obvious.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

A key feature of the patented invention is monomer purity. by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit has affirmed a US International Trade Commission (ITC) determination that Wuhan Healthgen violated Section 337 through importation of clinical-grade recombinant human serum albumin (rHSA) products that infringe Ventria Bioscience’s U.S.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In affirming the USPTO's rejection of claims for treating COVID-19 with aerosolized ribavirin, the court's February 18, 2025 ruling (No. In affirming the USPTO's rejection of claims for treating COVID-19 with aerosolized ribavirin, the court's February 18, 2025 ruling (No.

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Patently-O

MARCH 11, 2025

10, 2025), the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a PTAB post-grant review (PGR) decision that had upheld the validity of Merck's patent against sales of a commercially available product. by Dennis Crouch In CQV Co., Merck Patent GmbH , No. 2023-1027 (Fed.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The appellant argued the order was non-speaking, and ignored amended claims, written submissions, and evidence distinguishing its invention from prior art. The appellant argued the order was non-speaking, and ignored amended claims, written submissions, and evidence distinguishing its invention from prior art.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 28, 2025

On March 26, 2025, Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Coke Morgan Stewart issued a memorandum (the Workload Memorandum) to all Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or the Board). By: Latham & Watkins LLP

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The IPKat

JANUARY 12, 2025

The Enlarged Board has accepted the case as G 2/24 and invited stakeholders and the President of the EPO to provide comments by 17 April 2025. Beurer GmbH opposed the patent on grounds of novelty, inventive step, and added matter. Background European patent 2941163, owned by Foreo AB, covers an oscillating handheld skin cleanser.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 28, 2025

Interview with Justice Prabha Sridevan on Expert Evidence and Judicial Practices in IP Litigation Date of Interview: January 21, 2025 Mode of Interaction: Questionnaire (Prepared and Shared in Advance), Conducted Over the Phone, Later Transcribed and Approved Profile of Justice (Retd.) Prabha Sridevan Justice (Retd.)

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Patently-O

JULY 9, 2024

The authors do have several proposals: Election approach – where patent owners could have only one patent in force covering a given invention but could replace it with another patent on an obvious variant. The article takes a critical look at the practice of obviousness-type double patenting in the U.S. patent system.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Prepare candidates to qualify for the Indian Patent Agent Examination (Paper I and Paper II) to be held in the year 2025. Majumdar & Co.who are experts in the field of Patents. Train candidates for the patent agent interview (For candidates who pass Paper I and Paper II).

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Notably, compared to those of ‘The Outline’ (2008) (see page 3 of the WIPO lexdoc ), the five-year goals set by ‘The Outline’ (2021–2035) are much more concrete and specific, as shown in the list below: The criterion of ‘The number of high-value invention patents* per 10,000 population’ had its debut this year at the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Copyright Office dismissed the claim, arguing that the existence of a human being behind the invention is a precondition for copyright. Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database , 2025. Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal , 2025. However, the U.S.

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SpicyIP

JULY 8, 2024

CGPDTM Announces Dates for 2025 Trademark and Patent Agent Exams Dates for Trademark and Patent Agent Exams 2025 have been announced by the CGPDTM. The Trademark Agent Exam is likely to be held on January 04, 2025 and the Patent Agent Exam is likely to be held on January 5, 2025. Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC v.

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The IPKat

APRIL 10, 2025

Legal background: Technical character The established EPO case law on computer-implemented inventions states that only those features contributing to the technical character of the claimed invention can be considered for inventive step. The invention related to a system of analysing and characterising cells.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2024

15 [Submissions by March 31, 2025] NALSARs Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) is inviting submissions for its 15th Volume. The last date for submission of entries is March 31, 2025. Call for Submissions: NALSARs Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) Vol.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 16, 2025

No: Article 69(1), second sentence, EPC and Article 1 of the Protocol on the Interpretation of Article 69 EPC are not applied on the interpretation of patent claims when assessing the patentability of an invention under Articles 52 to 57 EPC by the EPO. 52 to 57 EPC).

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