SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Recently, the Indian Patent Office rejected a patent application by UPL Ltd. for lack of sufficient disclosure mandated under Section 10(4) of the Patents Act. Deepali is a third-year law student at NLSIU Bangalore. Her previous posts can be accessed here.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2024

– For patent applications where the invention uses or is based on biological resources from India, NBA approval is necessary before the grant of the patent. – When Indian companies or entities collaborate with foreign organizations, and the collaboration involves biological resources.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) directed patent practitioners to current case law and sections of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) as reminders as the patent practitioners continue to work in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology space. On September 22, 2022, the U.S. In In re Appl.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Patent enthusiasts will be excited to know that a comprehensive commentary on Patent Law, authored by Adarsh Ramanujan (incidentally, a former blogger with SpicyIP), is set to be released on December 4, 2024! The book is published collaboratively by Oakbridge Publishing Pvt. The panel will feature Justice Prathiba M.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2025

Pramudji Law Group PLLC, a Houston-based IP boutique law firm, is seeking a patent agent/patent attorney/patent engineer with a degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Physics. This position entails drafting and prosecuting patent applications and performing invalidity and infringement analysis.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The looming threat is the pending patent applications by Gilead in India. A Look at the Pre-Grant Oppositions Gilead has multiple patent applications for Lenacapavir in India, including those seeking patents on its choline and sodium salts. and the oppositions raised against these applications.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2022

We’re pleased to bring to you a 2 part guest post by Amit Tailor on the question of when a patent application can be divided, that came up in the recent case of Boehringer Ingelheim vs. The Controller. from Faculty of Law, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU), Vadodara. Nagar (Mohali) and LL.B.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 31, 2025

In its decision, the CAFC considered the question of when a published patent application is deemed prior art in an inter partes review (IPR). 10,687,400 unpatentable. Lynk Labs, Inc. Samsung Elecs. January 14, 2025). By: A&O Shearman

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Opportunities Making Digital Markets Work for People – Fairness, Efficiency and Consumer Welfare in Dialogue The Centre for Business Law at Lund University (ACLU) has launched a call for papers on the the theme of digital markets, ahead of a symposium that will be held in Lund in February 2025. For further information, click here.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

As stated previously, while it is impossible to cover all of the various issues related to claim drafting for biotech, chemical and pharma patent applications, in Part II we will highlight some more of the most common issues that may come up, including changes to the law around indefiniteness; product-by-process and means plus function claims; and (..)

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The IPKat

JULY 11, 2022

The Board of Appeal had previously announced its decision to refuse two European patent applications naming an algorithm ("DABUS") as the sole inventor at the end of last year ( IPKat ). Thus, contrary to the recent Nature article on this topic, AI is not breaking patent law.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Diplomatic Conference to Conclude and Adopt a Design Law Treaty – Plenary Sessions. Kartikeya is a second-year law student in the LL.B. Having freelanced as a patent research analyst, he developed an interest in patent prosecution and in exploring the Patents Act through various interpretative approaches.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

Can foreign applicants file US utility patent applications? Inventors located outside the US can file US patent applications. Foreign inventors, however, must be careful to follow the patent laws of the country in which the invention was made. Can they still file a US utility patent application?

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Pramudji Law Group PLLC, a Houston-based IP boutique law firm, is seeking a patent agent/patent attorney/patent engineer with a degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Physics. This position entails drafting and prosecuting patent applications and performing invalidity and infringement analysis.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

EP-AutoCla automatically classifies patent applications, relieving examiners of the time-consuming job of classifying documents manually. This tool will answer questions about case law and legal texts, providing evidence and citations to support its responses and minimize hallucinations.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 29, 2024

Sabeeh has previously interned with us and is a recent law graduate from AMU, Aligarh. Madras HC Remands Patent Application Back to IPO for Reconsideration By Md. The HC has reasoned that the Patent Office has not examined the “technical advance” as asserted by the Appellant. Sabeeh Ahmad.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2022

This second part continues where that post left off, and brings us analysis on whether or not, for the purposes of maintaining a divisional application, there must be a plurality of inventions in the claims of the parent application. When can/not a Patent Application be Divided? Part II: Claims & Pluralities.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) directed patent practitioners to current case law and sections of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) as reminders as the patent practitioners continue to work in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology space. On September 22, 2022, the U.S. In In re Appl.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. In this chart, Mr. Pairolero analyzed patent application filings in accordance with the country of the patent owner once the patent application granted.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 14, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) finding that AI cannot be considered a named inventor to a patent application remains the law of the land. The issue of AI inventorship in the United States remains at large following the Supreme Court’s denial of cert in Thaler v. Vidal, meaning that the U.S.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A joint letter from the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) to Congress highlights that the patent application backlog is at a high point.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 4, 2024

According to Article 27 of the Chinese Patent Law, where a patent application for a design is filed, documents such as a request, drawings or photographs of the design and a brief description of the design shall be submitted. By: Linda Liu & Partners

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Circuit Judge Todd Hughes called the Federal Circuit's case law on interpreting preambles in patent claims "nonsense" on Wednesday, expressing frustration as a panel tried to work through whether Xencor Inc.'s s antibody patent application was too broad.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

recent circular on procurement of drugs, non-obviousness test under the patents law, and the Hamburg Regional Court’s decision in Robert Kneschke v LAION e.V. Taming the ‘LAION’: Lessons for Harmonising AI and Copyright Law Unpacking the Hamburg Regional Court’s landmark ruling in Robert Kneschke v. The Show Must Go On?

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 11, 2025

Background:ImmunoGens Patent Application & Dispute - In 2014, ImmunoGen, Inc. Patent Application No. 14/509,809 (the 809 application). Immunogen) filed U.S. By: Polsinelli

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 6, 2025

2025 promises to be another busy year for intellectual property law. Broad Institute, a federal court case involving competing patent applications for the CRISPR-Cas9. Here are some of the highlights: 01:02 - Chelsea Loughrans thoughts on The University of California v. By: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

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Patently-O

JUNE 6, 2024

The consequences: in 2021, a patent application surfaced in Australia that appears to have been derived from Neuropublic’s confidential disclosure. This prior art publication now jeopardizes Neuropublic’s ability to obtain patent protection on its invention, undermining years of research and development investment.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 12, 2025

Before the USPTO was subject to a hiring freeze, it assumed it would onboard 400 new examiners between fiscal year 2025 and fiscal year 2026, and still predicted an increase in the backlog of unexamined patent applications.

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Patently-O

MARCH 27, 2025

by Dennis Crouch In a significant decision, the Federal Circuit has established a more rigorous test for determining when a published patent application claiming priority to a provisional application can be considered prior art as of its provisional filing date. In re Riggs , Case No. 2022-1945 (Fed.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Under PPH, prosecution of a patent application previously filed with a participating patent office can be fast-tracked in another participating patent office if the patent application meets certain requirements. In contrast, an average time to prosecute non-PPH patent applications is approximately 22.7

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 23, 2025

On appeal from an inter partes review (IPR), the Federal Circuit held that, under pre-America Invents Act (pre-AIA) law, a published patent application is prior art as of its filing date as opposed to its later date of publication.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The China National Intellectual Property Administration ("CNIPA") issued the Guidelines for Patent Applications for Artificial Intelligence ("AI") Related Inventions (Trial Implementation) ("Guidelines") on 31 December 2024, aiming to clarify and specify China's patent examination standards in the AI field and address the key legal issues of concern (..)

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 28, 2025

patent application qualify as prior art as of the applications filing date in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings? The Federal Circuit recently addressed a deceptively straightforward question: does a published U.S.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 29, 2025

In a precedential opinion entered on January 14, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) invalidating claims of a patent on obviousness grounds under 35 U.S.C. By: Dorsey & Whitney LLP

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Description amendments refresh The recent controversy over description amendments began with a significant tightening in the 2021 EPO Guidelines for Examination of the requirement for applicants to amend the description of a patent application in line with the allowed claims ( IPKat ).

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 3, 2025

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit established a more demanding test for determining whether a published patent application claiming priority to a provisional application is considered prior art under pre-America Invents Act (AIA) 35 U.S.C.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 9, 2024

In this episode of Trending Now - An IP Podcast, Tom Bergert and Clint Brannon discuss considerations for AI patent applicants and investors in light of emerging AI state and federal regulatory laws. By: Williams Mullen

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