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What to Know About the USPTO’s Duty of Candor Guidance Regarding FDA Submissions

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

The Notice extends these duties broadly to “each individual associated with the filing and prosecution of a patent application” and “each individual associated with the patent owner in a reexamination proceeding.” If, upon review, “any reviewed document is material to the patentability of a pending matter before the Office.

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A judicial lens on controversial IP realities in India

Selvam & Selvam Blog

The Assistant Controller of Patents, the Indian Patent Office (IPO), while refusing to grant a patent, provided a grand total of one sentence as reasoning, with the entire order being cut and pasted in an incoherent manner from incomplete documents, along with an incomplete diagram that was irrelevant to the application.

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