IP Watchdog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in a precedential decision today vacated a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) finding that certain claims of Google, LLC’s U.S. Patent Application No. 14/628,093 were obvious. The CAFC opinion, authored by Chief Judge Moore, said the U.S.

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Larson & Larson

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Track One Patent Applications: Accelerating Your Path to Patent Protection After nearly 15 years of shepherding inventors through the patent process, I’ve seen firsthand how crucial timing can be in protecting intellectual property. Track One might be the competitive edge you need.

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Patent Trademark Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Will arguments be necessary in your utility patent application? Nine out of ten utility patent applications will get rejected at least once. So, yes, arguments will be required in the vast majority of utility patent applications. Many will get rejected multiple times. Examiners are human. at least for now.

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Patently-O

JULY 22, 2022

.” UDP Labs quickly filed a provisional patent application for Young and Hewitt’s new inventions. More patent applications filed rather quickly, all claiming priority back to that original application filed during the consulting agreement period. Young , 532 F. 3d 793, 798 (D.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

These Guidelines instruct European patent examiners (and the public) on how the patent prosecution process works—much like the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Manual of Patent Examining Procedure.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A major reason for this is that an examiner’s interpretation of a claim drawn to an innovation that may be worthy of patent protection may cause them to determine that the subject matter as claimed is not patentably distinct from the prior art.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. In one key takeaway, the panel suggested drafting an application with specific details about the innovation in order to support patent eligibility and enablement for the innovative concept.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Last week, the Federal Circuit Court reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision in In re Surgisil, L.L.P., overturning the Board’s ruling that a design for a rolled-paper art tool for blending anticipated Surgisil’s (Applicant) claimed lip implant. In re Surgisil, L.L.P., 2020-1940, 2021 WL 4515275 (Fed.

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IP.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Invention Novelty Assessment: conduct a quantitative assessment of the novelty of an innovation against a corpus of global prior art to evaluate the feasibility of pursuing a patent. Provisional applications can be useful for technologies that are still in development, providing additional time to refine the invention.

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Patent Trademark Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What is a patent application attorney (patent prosecutor) versus a patent litigator? Patent practitioners generally fall under one of two practice areas: 1) patent litigation, or 2) patent prosecution. Are patent litigators required to be registered to practice before the USPTO?

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Legal Background: Duty of disclosure and inequitable conduct Patent applicants and attorneys prosecuting patent applications at the USPTO have a duty to disclose information that is material to the patentability of the intention ( 37 C.F.R. As such, the patent application indicated, a formulation of pH of 2.8-3.3

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Patently-O

MARCH 15, 2023

Associates around the country today are drafting motions, patent applications, and other documents using some version of ChatGPT. ChatGPT is good for that as well and can provide a reasoned structure, including identifying of prior art and obviousness standards.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Patent Prosecution Highway or PPH is a set of initiatives promulgated by participating patent offices around the world to accelerate patent prosecution in countries of the participating patent offices. In contrast, an average time to prosecute non-PPH patent applications is approximately 22.7

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. In one key takeaway, the panel suggested drafting an application with specific details about the innovation in order to support patent eligibility and enablement for the innovative concept.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 23, 2022

The Patent Reexamination and Invalidation Department (PRID) of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) invalidated the CN Invention Patent No. The novelty art is an article published within the grace period (i.e., 201310567987.0 (the Andry Dong is a paralegal in Perkins Coie’s Shanghai office.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2022

Inventorship in the US is a critical component of patent ownership. When applying for a patent at the USPTO, the applicant must name all inventors of the invention claimed in the patent application. Under the Paris Convention and the PCT, whoever files an application is called the applicant.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a case with seemingly overlooked delayed filings by the Applicant, a patent application was abruptly transferred from one officer to another, ignoring a subsisting notice of opposition. Suriya is a Patent Analyst from Salem Tamil Nadu. The views expressed at those of the author’s alone.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This is the second article of the multi-part series discussing benefits of prosecuting patents under Patent Prosecution Highway or PPH. To recap, PPH is a set of initiatives promulgated by participating patent offices around the world to accelerate patent prosecution in countries of the participating patent offices.

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Patently-O

MARCH 13, 2022

Angus Liu : Roche Settles Lawsuit Claiming AstraZeneca’s Ultomiris Infringes Delivery Patent (Source: Fierce Pharma). Solomon Israel: Court Tosses Canopy Cannabis Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against GW Pharma (Source: MJ Biz Daily). Josh Norem: Apple Patent Application Envisions a Mac Inside a Keyboard (Source: Extreme Tech).

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Having freelanced as a patent research analyst, he developed an interest in patent prosecution and in exploring the Patents Act through various interpretative approaches. He is currently engaged in WIPO-Harvard Law School Course in Patent Law and Global Public Health. course at NLSIU Bangalore. Article 3.2

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Patent Trademark Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

How to get an early PCT prior art search. A prior art search is conducted for every PCT application. Depending upon your PCT filing date, that prior art search report may be issued sooner than an Office Action in a counterpart application. Now suppose your first filing was the PCT application filed with the USPTO.

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Patent Trademark Blog

AUGUST 11, 2021

A typical utility nonprovisional patent application will receive at least one Office Action rejecting the claims. Amendments are, therefore, common and to be expected in the normal course of patent prosecution. If your claim amendments are too narrow, the competition will find easier ways to design around your patent.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 2, 2023

In this podcast, Procopio Partner Ernest Huang of Silicon Valley and AOMB Partner Ernest Baeten of the Netherlands discuss an innovative way in the Dutch patent system to get a peek at what the prior art is going to look like when you submit a provisional or normal patent application.

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GDB Firm Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

4, 2021) A rejection based on obviousness can be a difficult rejection for patent applicants to overcome. In patent prosecution, an examiner who can find a reference or combination of references that supposedly incorporates the claimed invention can result in a stubborn obviousness rejection. Strathclyde v.

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SpicyIP

JULY 13, 2023

– Nearly 90% of all Board of Appeal of the EPO decisions either completely or partly revoke the patent in question. Most of the decisions being based on prior art that could and should have been found in first instance! In Societe Des Produits Nestle Sa vs The Controller Of Patents and Design and Anr. ,

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Patent Trademark Blog

APRIL 14, 2022

A nonprovisional utility patent application has a roughly 90% probability of at least one rejection. A design patent application has an approximately 86% chance of approval. Basically, expect a utility patent application to be rejected at least once. How to respond to utility patent rejections.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Much of patent prosecution and opposition at the EPO is an advanced game of spot the difference. Subtle differences between the application as filed and the claimed subject matter can be fatal to a granted European patent.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Delhi High Court on Non-filing of Written Submission to Delay Patent Application Process. The Controller of Patents where it rebuked the Plaintiff for not filing written submissions in time and thereby delaying the patent application process. Course on Access to Medicines, TRIPS and Patents [Kochi, December 10-14].

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 29, 2024

What are the top losing patent arguments? About 9 out of 10 utility patent applications will receive at least one rejection. Getting a utility patent, therefore, will require skill in overcoming these inevitable rejections from the examiner. Then argue about how those claimed features are not in the prior art.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

selected address issues such as SPC protection for combination products, double patenting, prosecution history estoppel and the influence of declarations made by the patentee in parallel proceedings, the possibility for national courts to request technical opinions from the EPO under Art. The Court followed that argument.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

JUNE 10, 2021

An applicant secures a patent after successfully prosecuting the patent application at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). When the USPTO believes an application embodies an invention worthy of a patent, the USPTO grants a Notice of Allowance. Patentability Search.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Therefore, by granting the interim injunction in the present matter on the above rationale, the court has raised the bar for the defendants planning to resort to the plea of invalidity to oppose application of interim injunction, in future litigations. . The Drug and the patent. Background . Relying on Novartis v.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. In one key takeaway, the panel suggested drafting an application with specific details about the innovation in order to support patent eligibility and enablement for the innovative concept.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Draft version The requirement to amend the description of a European patent application in line with the scope of the claims is a peculiarity of European patent prosecution. In such a case, the fact that an embodiment is not covered by the claims must be prominently stated (T 1808/06)" (F-VI-4.3, emphasis added).

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The IPKat

JUNE 13, 2024

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. EPO AI assisted search: Language models and vector search Last year the EPO announced the introduction of a new tool to assist Examiners in patent search.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

D827,946 for a “Pet Grooming Glove,” a design that was allegedly already in circulation in the United States before the patent application. The complaint contended that the Defendant deliberately failed to disclose this information to the USPTO during the patent’s prosecution.

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SpicyIP

JULY 31, 2023

The present case is perhaps the first where the court deconstructs the question of patentability and infringement of product-by-process patent claims in India. Explaining the approach of Brazilian courts and patent office (BRPTO), Roberto Rodrigues Pinho et. While the IPO guidelines do explain these claims in para 7.9,

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