IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today published a final rule announcing across-the-board fee increases of 7.5% but scrapping the most controversial proposals from its April 2024 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). The changes will take effect as of January 19, 2025.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

I liked reading the always-excellent Rob Greenspoon's post about five (almost) instant fixes to the patent system. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director would do well to read that post. The next U.S.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in recent weeks regarding the Office’s decision to retire Private PAIR and EFS-Web, the two main software systems used by patent applicants, on November 8. Numerous letters have been submitted to the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 23, 2023

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) sent out an email alert on March 16, 2023 about its transition to eGrants for patents. This change to electronic patent grants as opposed to paper patents is in accord with the USPTO’s continued changes to an all-electronic and no paper system.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced a Deferred Subject Matter Eligibility Response Pilot Program (the “DSMER Program”). Currently, the USPTO applies a “compact prosecution approach” in examining patent applications. Introduction On January 6, 2022, the U.S. We provide a brief overview of this program.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2022

However, whether ownership actually transferred is also based on the law of the nation governing title to the invention. Lack of support issues are common in European patent prosecution but can be avoided through effective application drafting. Submission of declarations is common in US patent prosecution practice.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so we have a fair sprinkling of cases dealing with copyright, patents, trademarks, competition law etc. The case clarifies that the bar on arbitrability of trademark disputes is not an absolute one. Golden Tobacco Ltd [Delhi High Court].

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. Introducing the College of Patent Agents & Trademark Agents. On June 28, 2021 , the College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents Act came into force. Trademark Law.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 11, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal published a Director’s blog post today addressing the Office’s current backlog of patent and trademark applications, which the latest USPTO data shows to be 785,387 unexamined applications/ 25.6 months total pendency for patents and 14.5

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Program co-chairs Scott Alter (Michael Best) and David Bernstein (Debevoise) have once again assembled an impressive roster of speakers including prominent attorneys, government officials, judges, and in-house counsel. Several talks that delve into AI issues, including mine and one from Megan Bannigan (Debevoise).

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2025

Squarely presented in this case is the question of whether prosecution laches is a legitimate doctrine that can render any patent unenforceable if it takes longer than six years to obtain the patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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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. Today, the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

This includes the protection and enforcement of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, privacy, and related subject matter. AIPLA is comprised primarily of practitioners in private and corporate practice, in government service, and in the academic community. Law Practice management. Corporate litigation.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced the findings of two reports conducted by third-party academic economists and submitted to Congress late last year, as required by the Unleashing American Innovators Act of 2022 (UAIA).

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The Controller of Patents where it rebuked the Plaintiff for not filing written submissions in time and thereby delaying the patent application process. She highlights how the decision reiterates the importance of adhering to procedural tenets during patent prosecutions. Other News from the Country.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2021

With South Africa’s patent office having recently granted the first patent to an AI inventor, and an Australian court ruling in favor of AI inventorship, it’s time to review how we got here—and where we’re going. Further, the USPTO has issued thousands of inventions that utilize AI.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 16, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that it has updated its Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance to more directly address emerging technologies, specifically artificial intelligence (AI).

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Wednesday, October 3, issued a final order terminating approximately 3,100 patent applications for intent to deceive the Office via fraudulent “S-signatures.”

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Patent Pro Bono Program (PPBP) were African American or Black and 41% were female, according to the latest USPTO Director’s Blog. Thirty percent of respondents to a survey of applicants using the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 16, 2024

As we have reported recently, IPWatchdog broke news last week about a Reddit thread dedicated to purported patent examiners in which one examiner asked their peers for advice on how to approach examination of patents that have purposes they may fundamentally disagree with politically--specifically, a patent geared toward Israeli military technology.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) office actions on the merits, a patent applicant has the option to appeal the patent examiner’s decision rejecting one or more claims to a higher forum, i.e., the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). After two or more U.S.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 5, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) proposed fee schedule for 2025 to express their concern about certain substantial fee increases.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The “‘reasonable inquiry’ may comprise reviewing documents that are submitted to or received from other Government agencies, including the FDA.” If, upon review, “any reviewed document is material to the patentability of a pending matter before the Office. What This Means for Life Sciences Patent Applicants.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 20, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO, the Office or the Agency) has recently issued multiple guidance and proposed rules that potentially change the landscape of patent practice.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 10, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on terminal disclaimer practice was July 9 and several key organizations weighed in just as the door was closing. The deadline for comments on the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that certain intellectual property (IP)-related transactions are now authorized in Russia, following publication by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of General License No.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 16, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a Federal Register Notice today implementing the suggestions it received on expanding the patent bar following its October 18, 2022, request for public input on the topic.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The policy report finds that the rate of erroneous patent grants in the United States is less than half the rate of erroneous patent abandonment, undercutting narratives that the nation’s economy faces major issues related to poor quality patents being issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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Patent Trademark Blog

AUGUST 11, 2021

Amendments are, therefore, common and to be expected in the normal course of patent prosecution. What is at stake is the scope of the claims that will ultimately end up in the utility patent you’re hoping to obtain. Think of the patent process as a negotiation with the US government.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) published a report detailing patent application filing trends at the USPTO related to COVID-19 diagnostics technologies. On October 23, the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 9, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will officially publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) tomorrow that would change terminal disclaimer practice related to “non-statutory double patenting.”

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that they will be postponing the transition to Patent Center—the tool meant to replace legacy systems, EFS-Web and Private PAIR—until November 15. On the heels of a report published Sunday by IPWatchdog, the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 7, 2022

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Deputy Director Drew Hirshfeld will step down from a nearly 30-year career with the Office on June 21, the USPTO announced today. Hirshfeld became Commissioner for Patents with the USPTO in 2015.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

According to Strategic Goal 1 of the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) FY2020 Performance and Accountability Report (PAR), the USPTO is committed to high-quality patent examination in a timely manner.

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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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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published guidelines for examiners today on the topic of enablement in light of the Supreme Court’s May 2023 decision in Amgen v.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), discussing the issue of inconsistent statements made by patent applicants pursuant to their disclosure requirements at the USPTO and other federal agencies, especially the U.S.

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