JD Supra Law

JANUARY 28, 2022

2021 saw changes in Canadian patent legislation, and a variety of court decisions addressing rarely interpreted provisions of the Patent Act, early consideration of recently enacted provisions, and new takes on central tenets of patent law. By: Smart & Biggar

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Patently-O

MAY 15, 2024

” The dissenters saw a fundamental distinction between a patentee’s exclusive rights in the patented invention itself versus contractual rights in unpatented articles used with the invention. Lexmark argued that these restrictions should be enforceable through patent law, similar to the reasoning in A.B.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 10, 2021

This article explains how NFTs have been creating new challenges and opportunities specifically in the patent space. NFTs continue to make waves, even as there is much speculation about their long-term future. By: Sunstein LLP

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Patently-O

MARCH 11, 2022

In a forthcoming article, I argue that the PTO’s don’t-ask-don’t-tell approach is a truly problematic legal fiction. ” This holding is simply inconsistent with the Patent Act’s plain language, Congressional intent, and the Constitution. The result of which will be to discourage innovation, limit. Thaler Brief.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Today in Patent Law Class, we covered the Supreme Court’s important decision in Markman v. 370 (1996) focusing on the question of whether the patentee has a 7th Amendment right to have a jury decide “genuine factual disputes about the meaning of a patent?” by Dennis Crouch. Westview Instruments, Inc.,

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

In our annual review of developments in Canadian patent law, we considered over 60 patent decisions reported last year. This article highlights statutory changes and a selection of interesting points addressed in the reported decisions. By: Smart & Biggar

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The IPKat

MARCH 31, 2025

It protects only the appearance of a product (Article 3(a) CDR) and does not confer rights over characteristics of the appearance of a product which are exclusively imposed by its technical function (Article 8(1) CDR). The present case illustrates that the issue is by no means limited to patent law.

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Intepat

APRIL 7, 2025

However, the patenting of methods for medical treatment of human beings presents a complex issue, intertwining patent law with medical law. Medical law, rooted in the Hippocratic Oath, prioritizes the preservation of human life.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Injunctions are all the rage in contemporary patent law. This week marks the publication of a book by the IPKat’s Dutch friend and former GuestKat Léon Dijkman on the hotly contested notion of the proportionality test in European patent law, accessible for free here. Oh, how times have changed.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And, although the license is set to expire before the patents, the court found that potential future infringement to be too speculative. The petition asks the following question: Whether a licensee has Article III standing to challenge the validity of a patent covered by a license agreement that covers multiple patents.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As a final thought, I want to revisit the premise of this article. Among other benefits , this characteristic would be especially useful for farmers and food systems, as weather patterns worldwide —including in the Prairies —become more extreme over time due to climate change , which ultimately affects crop yield and quality.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 29, 2024

On December 11, 2023, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China announced its decision to amend the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China (the “2023 Regulations”), marking the first update in over 13 years since the last amendment in 2010.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 1, 2021

Reviewing this provision to include patenting discovery of non-living substances tips the fine balance that currently exists in the patent regime and over-extends monopoly rights. Section 3(j) was introduced through the 2002 amendment to the Patents Act to meet India’s TRIPS obligation under Article 27 [Patentable Subject Matter].

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 3, 2024

But how has copyright, trademark and patent law changed the field? The post Copyright, Trademark and Patent in Fireworks appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Fireworks displays are a common theme of Fourth of July celebrations.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 14, 2022

The idea of patented inventions brings to mind machines fully realized - flying contraptions and engines with gears and pistons operating in coherent symphony. When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), there are no contraptions, no gears, no pistons, and in a lot of cases, no machines.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Arnold & Porter, an international law firm, is seeking a Life Sciences Patent Law Clerk or Patent Agent for the Intellectual Property practice group in the Washington DC office.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 14, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) finding that AI cannot be considered a named inventor to a patent application remains the law of the land. The issue of AI inventorship in the United States remains at large following the Supreme Court’s denial of cert in Thaler v. Vidal, meaning that the U.S.

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Patently-O

MARCH 19, 2025

2025), which upheld patent claims even though they covered after-arising technology that was not described or enabled in the specification. As Dennis noted, the Federal Circuit appeared to depart from well-established prior law on the subject.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 16, 2024

by Dennis Crouch This post offers some insight into four patent-focused academic articles that I've been reading lately. A textualist approach to patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § Reflections on the Myriad gene patenting decision, ten years later 3. To continue reading, become a Patently-O member.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 17, 2023

The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) machines has resulted in a number of interesting issues in both copyright and patent law. See, for example, our prior articles involving attempts to qualify machine-made works for patent and copyright registration.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 27, 2022

Section 171 of title 35 United States Code provides “whoever invents any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture may obtain a patent thereof”. Because of the emerging technologies such as projections, virtual and augmented reality, the USPTO is exploring the arena of protection of digital design patents.

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The IPKat

JUNE 13, 2024

The cover article of the May 2024 edition of the CIPA Journal proposed a new test for inventive step using AI. The article was inspired by the EPO's AI assisted search tool, AI-PreSearch. Similarity" is not a test for inventive step The CIPA Journal article proposes that AI-PreSearch could be used in a new inventive step test.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This post originally appeared as an article (“Stakeholders Should Not Miss Congress’s Invitation for Feedback on Patent Eligibility”) on Law.com on October 7, 2021. patent law to accommodate and encourage technologies that will drive the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 11, 2022

Note that top ranked law schools rarely advertise for particular subject matter areas. For the most part, new tenure-track law professors will have already published law review articles and have some sort of teaching experience.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2023

With its recent revisions to its patent enforcement and damages laws, China took a decisive step towards a more rigorous patent system that favors patentees, both domestic and foreign.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 28, 2025

Legal background: Equivalence around Europe The Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) contains no specific provisions on the doctrine of equivalence. Beyond this high-level guidance from Article 2 of the Protocol, the UPC faces the challenge of developing its own approach to assessing infringement by equivalence.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2024

This change represents a considerable shift in the intellectual property law landscape within the country, aiming to promote an environment of genuine innovation and integrity. Genuine Inventive Activities: Requires applications to be based on real and original inventive activities.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2023

The Chinese Patent Law, specifically Article 24, prescribes that an invention-creation for which a patent is applied does not lose its novelty where, within six months before the date of filing, one of the following events occurred: (1) where it was first made public for public interest when the country is in an emergency or an abnormal state; (2) (..)

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

case number 19-40643: are patent laws regarding what constitutes a reasonable royalty applicable to questions of compliance with FRAND-related contractual obligations? Pursuant to appeal of that decision, however, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has now addressed the photonegative question in HTC Corp.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Arnold & Porter, an international law firm, is seeking a Life Sciences Patent Law Clerk or Patent Agent for the Intellectual Property practice group in the Washington DC office. The Patent Law Clerk/ Patent Agent will be directly supervised by an attorney and get individualized patent law training.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 13, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit’s new Finjan decision once again focuses attention on what I call patent law’s “ indefinite article shuffle.” ” Finjan v. SonicWall — F.4th 4th — (Fed.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

If such products were created by a human inventor, they could be eligible for patent protection. A human inventor serves as the central figure in the design of the patent system. The main rationale behind patent law is to reward and encourage the creative actions of creators. 362 [10] Lionel Bently et al.,

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 12, 2023

In a recent article, we argued that patent law's current subjective and inconsistently-applied mental process doctrine is erroneously based on a false equivalence between human and machine cognition.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 30, 2024

patents despite the fact that the traditional basis for ODP doctrine no longer exists under U.S. patent law. The NYIPLA’s brief contends that the Federal Circuit’s decision increases the risk of invalidity for a significant portion of U.S.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 29, 2023

I am excited to announce the publication of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) ’s article on “ IP Aspects of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Technologies.” The article can be found here and was published as part of the AIPLA’s INNOVATE Magazine.

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Patently-O

MAY 19, 2024

’ This quote from Professor James Stern’s new article introduces the conventional view that ideas and information are nonrivalrous, in contrast to the rivalrous nature of tangible goods. But Stern’s new article bucks the conventional wisdom and instead argues that the nonrivalry of IP is a myth.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As Islamic countries have begun to embrace patents in recent decades, theories of patents have presented conceptual and theological debates under classical Islamic law, including for construing patentable subject matter and assessing patent infringement. patent law. patent system.

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