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How long does it take to get a patent in 2021? And what about COVID-19?

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

An applicant secures a patent after successfully prosecuting the patent application at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). When the USPTO believes an application embodies an invention worthy of a patent, the USPTO grants a Notice of Allowance. Patentability Search.

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EPO Decisions – The Not So Holy Grail?

SpicyIP

These concerns were raised in a meeting with the IPQC, and Kluwer Patent Blog subsequently highlighted the critical letter sent by Beat Weibel, the chief IP counsel of Siemens, to the EPO. – The patent system needs complete searches and substantive examination for functioning well. The Court in Microsoft Technology Licensing v.

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

The IPKat

The article proposes: " Suppose a new patent application is received and converted into an embedding space using a large language model. AI-PreSearch simply uses vector search to identify and rank the similarities of prior art documents to the claims of a patent application. Louis: That’s over the threshold.

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Schemes, Policies And Programmes For Patent Facilitation

IIPRD

TIFAC is an autonomous organization under the Department of Science & Technology mandated to access state-of-art technology and to formulate a technology vision for the development of technology in emerging technological areas in India. . Biotechnology Patent Facilitation Cell ( Department of Biotechnology).