The IP Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Therefore, not only is it important to select the proper entity status when filing a patent application, but it is also critical to recognize if and when an entity status changes. A change in entity status changes the required fees that must be paid during patent prosecution and maintenance periods.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 3, 2022

For instance, at one point, the United States had a §103(c) exception – prohibiting Examiners from citing any prior patent publications in a §103 obviousness-type rejection that had ‘common ownership’ to the Existing Applicant. Technical Advisor patents@founderslegal.com. John DeStefano.

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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. Defendant no.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

This filing strategy may provide some protection against patented products manufactured in, but then exported from, Russia. Patent applicants may want to consider assigning ownership of their Russian patents to a trusted agent who is not from an affected country.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Copyright Ownership of Movies and Films in Canada: Who’s on First? Patents and the Magical World of Psychedelics by Bonnie Hassanzadeh. Introducing the College of Patent Agents & Trademark Agents. Patent Prosecution History Now Admissible as Evidence. Giuseppina D’Agostino. By Meena Alnajar. David Vaver.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2023

AI inventor case catch-up: Formalities, not patentability It is worth remembering that a patent application may be filed for any subject matter, provided the appropriate forms are filled in and the necessary fees paid. It is the owner of an invention, and not the inventor who reaps the rewards of patent protection.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

This filing strategy may provide some protection against patented products manufactured in, but then exported from, Russia. Patent applicants may want to consider assigning ownership of their Russian patents to a trusted agent who is not from an affected country.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The applicant, Malvern, unsuccessfully traversed the rejection on the merits, but removed the ’175 patent from prior art consideration by arguing that § 103(c)(1) applied, due to common ownership. After a change in ownership, Malvern sought supplemental examination of the ’175 patent under 35 U.S.C. §

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 30, 2023

.”; and (4) “[n]either the applicant nor the inventor nor a joint inventor has assigned, granted, or conveyed, nor is under an obligation by contract or law to assign, grant, or convey, a license or other ownership interest in the application concerned to an entity that.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 25, 2022

Stakeholders of a Patent: A patent has several stakeholders, who are impacted in different ways by the existence of a patent. The most direct stakeholders are the inventors who conceptualized the invention that is now patented. The inventor’s rights to the patent vary depending on ownership, further explained below.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Complicated relationship to ownership: they think their value comes from providing iconicity/authenticity. Claim construction is discouraged in design patent, in part for good reasons—doesn’t make much sense to translate into words when you can compare the two designs directly. Design patents aren’t patents.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 13, 2021

This included reducing the amount required to file a patent and a design by 60 percent and 50 percent respectively. The Government has also introduced the Bilateral Patent Prosecution Highway Programme that would expedite patent filing processes. Here, the owner of the MSME would have sole ownership over his/her IP.

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More Than Your Mark

JULY 16, 2018

If maintenance fees and any applicable surcharges are not timely paid, the patent protection lapses, and the rights provided by the patent are no longer enforceable. Sometimes, patent applicants file one or more terminal disclaimers during the patent prosecution process to overcome a “double patenting” rejection by the U.S.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Delhi High Court’s Intellectual Property Division Rules, 2021. The Delhi High Court framed the draft Delhi High Court Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules, 2021 and circulated the same inviting comments and inputs in October, 2021.

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IIPRD

MAY 10, 2020

provide services for patent searches, patent drafting, patent prosecution, facilitation commercialization of inventions, etc. BIRAC will not have any ownership in the filed patents, it will be in the name of the host institution/company but there will be benefit-sharing on the commercialization of the product. [12].

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

TJ Chiang, IP Ownership and Penalty Default Rules Patent v. copyright ownership defaults: employer ownership of employee creations is WFH in © but patent, employee owns absent assignment. Every contributor to conception is automatically a joint inventor; © makes primary author sole author absent agreement.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

6 The potential impact of solid-state batteries on the EV industry in particular is huge, as they hold significantly more energy and charge in less time than traditional lithium-ion batteries, thereby eliminating one of the perceived drawbacks of EV ownership. Patent Prosecution, Portfolio, and Strategic Patenting Considerations.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Rules introduce monumental changes in the patent regime with far-reaching implications. Most notably, the amendments pertaining to fixed deadlines for different procedures promise to be useful changes in quickening the patent prosecution timeline. On April 15, the Delhi High Court in Hershey’s v.

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