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Fish & Richardson Attorneys Megan Chacon and Crystal Culhane Named 2021 Women of Influence in Law by the San Diego Business Journal

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were recognized as 2021 Women of Influence in Law by the San Diego Business Journal. Megan Chacon focuses her practice on complex patent litigation across a wide range of technologies. Culhane’s work entails counseling on patent prosecution, due diligence, and patentability and freedom-to-operate matters.

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Patently-O Bits and Bytes by Juvan Bonni

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Jie Fei (Christina) Pan: Supreme Court of Canada Denies Amgen Leave to Appeal Decision Invalidating its Filgrastim Patent (Source: JD Supra). Susan Decker and Matthew Bultman: Apple Sinks ‘Submarine Patent,’ Escapes $308.5 Commentary and Journal Articles: Robin Feldman: Our Patent System is Broken. Duane Morris.

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Patently-O Bits and Bytes by Juvan Bonni

Patently-O

Stephen Nellis: Jury Awards Optis $300 Million in Second Patent Trial Against Apple (Source: Reuters). Susan Decker: One Man’s Quest to Get an AI Machine a Patent Gathers Momentum (Source: Bloomberg). Commentary and Journal Articles: Atty. Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP – Patent Prosecution Associate.

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"Using AI tools to help assess inventive step": A response to the CIPA journal article

The IPKat

The cover article of the May 2024 edition of the CIPA Journal proposed a new test for inventive step using AI. The CIPA journal article proposes to use an AI derived measurement of semantic similarity between the claims and the prior art as a new test for inventive step. None of these tests correspond to "similarity" in vector space.

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Four Fish & Richardson Principals Named 2021 “Women Worth Watching in STEM” by Profiles in Diversity Journal

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and Nicole Williams have been named recipients of the 2021 “Women Worth Watching in STEM” award by Profiles in Diversity Journal. Nitika Gupta Fiorella is a principal in Fish’s Delaware office, where she focuses on complex patent litigation. Fish & Richardson principals Nitika Gupta Fiorella , Heather L. Flanagan, Ph.D. King, Ph.D.

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DABUS Gets Its First Patent in South Africa Under Formalities Examination

IP Watchdog

The patent is for “a food container based on fractal geometry,” and was accepted by South Africa’s Companies and Intellectual Property Commission on June 24. The notice of issuance was published in the July 2021 Patent Journal. .

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In First Half of 2021, 63% of U.S. Patents, 48.9% at EPO and 40.1% in China Were Software-Related

IP Watchdog

Further, it has been 10 years since famed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wrote the influential and often-quoted op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal titled “Why Software Is Eating the World.” Kalo Inoculant Co.). Today, the digital transformation where software is “eating the world” is undeniable.