Patently-O
AUGUST 22, 2022
For our patent law course today, the students read the Justice O’Connor unanimous opinion in Bonito Boats, Inc. The Florida courts had refused to enforce the law because it conflicted with Federal Patent Law. The Florida courts had refused to enforce the law because it conflicted with Federal Patent Law.
Patently-O
MARCH 28, 2025
patent law over the past several decades, the America Invents Act of 2011 was clearly the most dramatic rewriting of the law since 1952. 102(a)(1) now reads: A person shall be entitled to a patent unless. (a)(1) My bet is on the precedent. Although Congress has repeatedly tinkered with U.S. 35 U.S.C.
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The IP Law Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
This month the Federal Circuit decided a case involving whether the display of a flowering plant constitutes an invalidating prior public use. Wingen LLC (“Wingen”) applied for a reissue of its utility patent for a Calibrachoa plant, called Cherry Star, which is similar to a petunia. For example, in Motionless Keyboard Co.
JD Supra Law
DECEMBER 21, 2023
In a noteworthy year for patent law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued several decisions that will shape the patent landscape and the Federal Rules of Evidence governing expert testimony were amended. Supreme Court and the U.S. By: Smith Anderson
Patently-O
JANUARY 17, 2022
patent law. patents are territorially limited. Although Deepsouth was barred from using Laitram’s patented inventions throughout the United States , Deepsouth began selling its deveining machine to folks outside of the US in a partially constructed form. Patent Law Amendments Act of 1984, Pub.
Patently-O
AUGUST 13, 2021
The 1836 Patent Act added the caveat that no patent should issue on an invention previously “described in any printed publication.” ” That language has carried through the various major patent law overhauls and continues as a prominent aspect of 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1).
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
Novelty: An invention or one very similar to it must already be patented, described in someone else’s patent or patent application, described in a printed publication, on sale, or in public use before the application date (with some exceptions granting the inventor a grace period of one year prior to the application date).
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