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Federal Circuit Clarifies Public Use Bar Requirements in Win for Hologic Against Minerva

IP Watchdog

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Wednesday issued a precedential opinion clarifying the requirements for the disclosure of technology that is ready for patenting at a public event to qualify as being “in public use” for purposes of the pre-America Invents Act (AIA) public use bar under 35 USC 102(b).

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When Does Disclosure of a Chemical Genus Anticipate a Species?

Patently-O

Bear in mind that in patent infringement litigation the accused infringer (e.g., public use or on-sale events) and grounds for invalidation (e.g., obviousness-type double patenting or lack of enablement) that are not available in IPR proceedings. Mylan) is able to rely on prior art (e.g.,

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FMC Receives Injunction for Chlorantraniliprole: Coverage-Disclosure, Anticipation, and Issues That Remained Unaddressed

SpicyIP

Anticipation by Prior Publication and Lack of Novelty. The defendant argued that CTPR was disclosed and published in US’424, US’357 and EP’508 patents which are Markush type patents and have priority dates even prior to IN’978.

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“What’s Mine Is Not Yours To Give Me”—Nor To Take Without Just Compensation: A New Jersey’s Reaction To Sovereign Immunity, Intellectual Property, & Takings

LexBlog IP

994 (2020) , a decision holding that the sovereign immunity of individual states prevented a copyright holder from recovering damages for infringement, I was a bit disheartened. In fact, it is sa id here even in judicial opinions, about patents no less. Cooper, 140 S.Ct. ” Flynn, Queen Anne’s Revenge, Indeed!