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Supreme Court Patent Challenges February 2025

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court's 2024-2025 patent docket has a growing number of cases awaiting consideration. I count fifteen pending cases that could reshape multiple facets of patent law. Celanese raises questions the the scope of the on-sale bar under the America Invents Act, particularly for secret processes.

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Madras High Court holds that not all inventions must yield physical products to be patentable

Selvam & Selvam Blog

The application, titled Method of Preheating and Controlling the Temperature of Fuel Injected into a Combustion Engine, was refused by the Deputy Controller of Patents and Designs on the ground that the invention fell under the exclusions listed in Section 3(m) of the Patents Act.

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Monday Miscellany

The IPKat

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 Weekly Review (March 3 – March 9)

SpicyIP

Highlights Moving Towards a Wrongful Obtainment Standard Part I Wrongful obtainment is a less explored area of patent law in the Indian context. Patent Office orders have partially answered what it means to wrongfully obtain a patent but are inconsistent in adjudicating wrongful obtainment claims. 2,00,000 in damages.

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A Rare Invocation for a Rare Disease?: Government Urged to Invoke Section 100, Patents Act for Rare Disease Medicine

SpicyIP

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. Importantly, this is not a provision that requires abuse of patent by the patentee. The next date of hearing is today, i.e. January 20, 2025.

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The Doctrinal Merger No One Asked For: How Enablement Swallowed Utility

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit's recent decision in In re McLeay offers a glimpse into the evolving relationship between utility and enablement in patent law. 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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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 25 – December 1)

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Other Posts Book Launch: Ramanujan’s Patent Law: A Comprehensive Commentary on Patent Law (December 4, 2024) Ramanujan’s Patent Law: A Comprehensive Commentary on Patent Law by Adarsh Ramanujan, FCIArb is being released on December 4, 2024 at the Delhi High Court. In this post by Kartikeya S.,