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Confidentiality restrictions around clinical trials and prior public use (T 0670/20)

The IPKat

The recent Board of Appeal decision in T 0670/20 considered whether patients in a clinical trial were under conditions of confidentiality. The patent was for a tablet formulation that had been given to patients in a clinical trial conducted before the patent had been filed. Confidentiality in clinical trials.

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Prior Art: The Patent Pitfall

Larson & Larson

A high number of patent applications are given a non-final rejection from the USPTO according to Yale. Often, the reason that the patent office will cite for rejecting an application is the presence of prior art. You may have heard the term ‘prior art’ before in the context of patents. Exceptions.

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Key Points from the USPTO’s New Guidance on AI Use

IP Intelligence

Implications for Patent/Trademark Prosecutors and Holders The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, in Intellectual Property (IP) practices involving documents filed at the USPTO.

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

Trading Secrets

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). enablement). Thankfully, the U.S.

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

LexBlog IP

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). enablement). Thankfully, the U.S.

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Yes, A Secret Process Can (Still) Create an On-Sale Bar

IP Tech Blog

the Supreme Court held that an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party who is obligated to keep the invention confidential can create an on-sale bar under AIA §102(a). Under the pre-AIA law, a patentee’s sale of an unpatented product made with a secret process can create an on-sale bar to the patentability of the process.

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

LexBlog IP

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). enablement). Thankfully, the U.S.