IPilogue

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This is a reminder that submissions to try out for the annual National Patent Application Drafting Competition (PDC) team are due on Friday, October 22 at 3pm ! The winner of each regional round will compete in the National Finals held at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. .

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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. Of course, If I were a judge or examiner, I might also be interested in using AI to help facilitate my decision-making.

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Patent Prosecution Patent Application Art Reporting 122

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

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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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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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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IP.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Non-Provisional Applications: Decide whether to file a provisional patent application to secure an early filing date or go directly for a non-provisional application. Provisional applications can be useful for technologies that are still in development, providing additional time to refine the invention.

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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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IP Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

Its applications in the fields of natural language processing and text analysis have been well documented and have aroused great interest. Recently, the technology has even been used in the realm of intellectual property, with some having used it to draft patent applications.

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Intellectual Property Patent Patent Application Technology 111

Patently-O

JULY 16, 2023

Before getting an investor, these guys filed a low quality initial patent application that had unduly narrow claims that were exploited by knock-off versions and really just disclosed a single embodiment. In that case, the original patent document disclosed several different machining implements, each having multiple arbors.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 12, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register announcing that the agency would be revising its rules of practice to require that information disclosure statements related to patent term adjustments (PTAs) be submitted on Form PTO/SB/133.

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Patent Prosecution Patent Patent Application Publishing 59

Patently-O

OCTOBER 16, 2023

by Dennis Crouch Impact of Sonos on Patent Prosecution : The recent Sonos v. Google decision threatens to grind to a halt, or at least significantly restrict, a once-common patent prosecution strategy – keeping continuation applications pending for years to obtain new claims that cover marketplace developments.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 18, 2023

A team from the Centre for Intellectual Property, Innovation and Technology at Hidayatullah National Law University recently released a monograph titled ‘A Study of Patent Opposition System’, available here (PDF). The main monograph forms the first 32 pages of the 180-page document. of the total published applications. ’.

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Patent Application Reporting Public Domain Patent 141

IP Tech Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

Though compulsory licensing payments are uncertain at best right now, owners of Russian patents from the affected countries are advised to document commercial activity that would normally be entitled to compensation. This may allow prosecution of pending Russian patent applications or enforcement of granted patents by this agent.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 6, 2024

Steinfl + Bruno's Patent Agents participate in domestic and foreign patent prosecution and work directly with patent examiners and clients, including inventors, in-house patent practitioners, and foreign associates.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 23, 2022

She presently assists on over 400 patent prosecution matters, including managing deadlines, serving as a liaison with U.S. Andry also provides paralegal support for the firm’s patent prosecution within China, such as preparing and filing prosecution documents. [1] 1] See , [link].

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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 Prosecution Invention IP Journalism 111

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In view of this notice, life sciences companies should consider involving patent counsel in the review of relevant FDA submissions for possible inconsistencies with PTO filings and determination of the appropriate course of action where material inconsistencies are found to exist. What This Means for Life Sciences Patent Applicants.

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Patent Prosecution Due Diligence Inventor Reporting 76

IP Watchdog

JUNE 6, 2023

Patent and Trademark (USPTO) published a pair of documents in the Federal Register regarding due dates on new document formatting requirements for patent applications filed with the Office. Today, the U.S.

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Patent Application Publishing Trademark Patent 59

LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

Though compulsory licensing payments are uncertain at best right now, owners of Russian patents from the affected countries are advised to document commercial activity that would normally be entitled to compensation. This may allow prosecution of pending Russian patent applications or enforcement of granted patents by this agent.

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Licensing Patent Application Patent Prosecution Invention 52

Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

The role of attribution is also receiving increasing focus as attorneys begin to rely more heavily on AI outputs for their legal documents. And, the implications of this lawsuit may extend to how law firms draft motions and whether they can freely use existing legal documents as templates without infringing on copyright.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

In this post, developed along the lines of a literature review cum blogpost, Yashna Walia has looked through the various government policy documents on AI to see what they have to say about IP! The document highlights that “AI systems are susceptible to attack such as manipulation of data being used to train the AI…etc.” Arul Scaria).

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Read the deadline extension documents: [link]. Additionally, if you are a patent owner or inventor, please include the number of U.S. and foreign patent applications you have filed; the number of U.S. Patent prosecution strategy and portfolio management; b. patent enforcement and litigation; c.

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Patently-O

APRIL 3, 2024

The USPTO appears to be using these fee adjustments as a tool to shape patent prosecution strategies, encouraging more compact patent applications and smaller patent families. This fits with the ongoing trend that a patent should be of a particular size.

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Patent Prosecution Design Patent Designs Design 53

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 decisions we (arbitrarily!)

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Litigation Law Patent Invention 82

Patent Trademark Blog

JULY 14, 2021

Furthermore, patent prosecution occurring after the initial filing will vary by each governmental patent office. Some IP offices may present a more challenging patent examination process than others. Do US national stage applications require a subsequent request for examination?

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The IPKat

JUNE 13, 2024

AI-PreSearch uses a language model (EP-RoBERTa) that has been trained on patent documents. The vector representation is then mapped to the 250,000 dimension patent subject area classification (CPC) space. AI-PreSearch is simply a search tool for identifying documents semantically similar to the claims.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 25, 2022

This period of exclusivity lasts for 20 years from the date the patent application was filed. The patent examiners are government employees who are responsible for ensuring that all patent applications meet the requirements for patent rights to be granted.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 3, 2024

Concerns Expressed by the Delhi High Court As quick background, an appeal was filed by Man Trucks and Bus SA against the Controller’s order dated March 18, 202, rejecting its patent application for “Particle separator and method for separating particles of an exhaust stream of an internal combustion engine.”

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Patentably Defined

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The USPTO’s Patent Prosecution Highway Information Page. The USPTO’s Electronic Document Exchange Program Page. The USPTO Office of Data Management Page – Corrections of patents, applications, requesting duplicate letters patents. The USPTO’s E-Office Action Program Information Page.

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

of the Patent Act has brought about a significant shift in the Canadian approach to file wrapper estoppel by enabling the introduction of a patent’s prosecution history during claim construction. TA Foods Ltd. 2021 FCA 7 Section 53.1 In contrast, TA only used a Micronizer for heating oil seed via infrared radiation.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Understanding these three underlying principles will enable Applicants in China to better understand the best situations for filing both types of applications. Chinese Utility Model and Patent Prosecution. Unlike invention patent applications, there is no substantial examination of utility models.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The definition of a utility patent is a patent that covers “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.” [i] i] Utility patents are the most prevalent type of patent. What should you do after obtaining a utility patent?

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The parent patent application (APN 11/301,291) received an office action back in 2011 and the case went abandoned six months later. Amazon also notes that, in December 2012, the Ikan principal signed an assignment agreement, prepared by the prosecuting attorney, that lists the ’291 application as “Inactive/Abandoned/Expired.”

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Patently-O

MAY 24, 2023

By its terms it applies only to “the filing and prosecution of a patent application…” IPRs are not “patent prosecution.” But, the Board did rely also on the IPR rules, which are the applicable ones, so what’s the problem? Why does this matter? Citing Rule 56 is wrong.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

There are two kinds of patent opposition process at two different stages of patent prosecution in India, they are: Pre grant opposition Post grant opposition. Types of Patent Opposition in India. Filing documents. The opponent in the written statement should specify: The nature of its interest in the patent.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

New web browser extension makes USPTO examiner and art unit statistics available to any patent professional, integrated directly into their patent prosecution workflow. The unprecedented integration of LexisNexis patent prosecution statistics and the USPTO’s two. Examiner Stats on USPTO Websites.

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