Patently-O

APRIL 26, 2023

I am happy to announce the launch of my newsletter series, “ Patent Law Primer: A Short Introduction to Key Issues in Patent Law ,” currently distributed through LinkedIn. This series is designed for a broader audience, making it accessible for anyone interested in the subject, not just patent attorneys.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Candidates are published in the Canadian government’s Plant Varieties Journal and held to industry scrutiny. In order to be eligible for protection, potential plant candidates must be new, distinct compared to existing known varieties, uniform in character, and have traits that are consistently stable across successive generations.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Injunctions are all the rage in contemporary patent law. This week marks the publication of a book by the IPKat’s Dutch friend and former GuestKat Léon Dijkman on the hotly contested notion of the proportionality test in European patent law, accessible for free here. Oh, how times have changed. here , at 24].

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The IPKat

JANUARY 24, 2023

This Kat is delighted to review “ A Practitioner’s Guide to European Patent Law: For National Practice and the Unified Patent Court ” (Hart Publishing, 2022, 664 pp.). non-infringement or that a patent is standard essential), and on FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) licensing.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 11, 2022

Note that top ranked law schools rarely advertise for particular subject matter areas. For the most part, new tenure-track law professors will have already published law review articles and have some sort of teaching experience.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

According to the opinion, the claimed method was directed to an application of Hooke’s law, and thus patent ineligible. The utility of such appeal is questionable, however, as the District Court aptly stated “it will be up to Congress to decide how, if at all, it wants to expand the scope of patent law.” 86 FR 36257.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 8, 2024

Originally published in Law360 on April 5, 2024. For many product manufacturers, post-sale repair and maintenance of their products is a significant source of revenue, and manufacturers use various incentives to entice their customers to return to them for post-sale repairs, rather than going to a less expensive independent repair company.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As with other rapidly-evolving technologies, the blockchain space is experiencing a frenzy of patent activity. The data shows that there are 3-4 times as many published applications as there are issued patents for these concepts.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 3, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The following is my patent law exam from this past semester. EL has no evidence whether Buddy Strap intentionally copied his patent application or not, but he suspects they may have since they came to market after he published his application.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2022

This Alicante-based Kat has been enjoying her sea view with a good book in paws: “ Once upon a time, the patent ” by Pascal Attali (2022, 304 p.). The first part of the book is devoted to the history of patent law. In pre-revolutionary France, similar royal privileges were granted under the name “patente”.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

Singh’s book on Patent Law is finally out. It has been published by Thomson Reuters in two volumes and was launched on 9th March 2024 by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at Pragati Maidan. Justice Singh, in an interview about her new book , commented on the “importance of patent law for the common man.”

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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? It depends.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 23, 2024

Here are the nominees and winners: Best Patent Law Book The nominations, in no particular order, were: • Der patentrechtliche Schutz von Daten und seine Grenzen; Landscheidt, by Fabian Landscheidt. Patent Portfolio Management, A Practical Guide, by Ho Frattasi. The Proportionality Test in European Patent Law, by Léon Dijkman. •

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 15, 2022

patent law. patent law. This week in Other Barks & Bites: Senators Thom Tillis and Patrick Leahy announce a forthcoming bill to limit petitioner challenges at the PTAB, preventing abuse; the U.S.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Having freelanced as a patent research analyst, he developed an interest in patent prosecution and in exploring the Patents Act through various interpretative approaches. He is currently engaged in WIPO-Harvard Law School Course in Patent Law and Global Public Health.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Previously published in a relevant field of technology shall constitute prior art for the purpose of determining inventive steps. The Court determined that an underlying principle of patent law was that only if it had been novel and useful could an invention be issued and would thereby necessarily both be unique and useful.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The US District Court for the District of Delaware’s recent opinion in Thomson Reuters and West Publishing v. Relies too heavily on similar functionality of headnotes to improve search tools, ignoring that such functional aspects fall outside copyright’s scope and within patent law’s domain; 2.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 25, 2024

The TRIPS Agreement (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) , in particular, has often been criticized for enforcing patent laws that impose undue burdens on developing countries, especially when it comes to accessing life-saving medicines.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In a welcome and transparent step with respect to filings and pendency in the IPD, Delhi High Court has published its IP Division Annual Report 2023-24. The Court quashed the order, directing the respondent to publish the appellant’s mark in the Trade Mark Journal, restricted to Karnataka, and consider any opposition on merits.

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The IPKat

MARCH 24, 2023

The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) has released its written decision in G 2/21 on the question of post-published evidence. The Opponent argued that the synergistic effect of the compounds against the third moth species was not plausible from the application as filed, and so the post-published evidence should not be taken into account.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 13, 2024

This is perhaps not surprising, given that patent applications are not published until 18 months after they are filed, and that OpenAI's major innovation of ChatGPT was first released about 2 years ago. This year, eleven OpenAI patents and patent applications have been published.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

On October 17, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) formally adopted a revised patent law that makes significant changes to that country’s legal framework for pharmaceutical patents. signed in January that aimed to incorporate aspects of American patent law into the Chinese legal system.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

patent law becomes increasingly important. Originally published in IPWatchdog - October 31, 2024. As European medtech companies look to expand their presence in the U.S. market, understanding the intricacies of U.S. market, being the largest for medical technologies, presents both opportunities and challenges.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 4, 2021

In July 2021, South Africa’s patent office, the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC), granted the South African DABUS patent application, which was published in the South African Patent Journal. Does substantive South African patent law preclude AI inventorship? Mr Meshandren Naidoo is a Ph.D

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Image from here IP Court watchers will be pleased to know that the Delhi High Court’s IP Division has published the 2023-24 edition of its Annual Report ! Praharsh had written about the first report published in April 2023. The DHC in collaboration with WIPO organised the WIPO Master Class on Intellectual Property (IP) Adjudication.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 22, 2023

Here are the nominees and winners: Best Patent Law Book The nominations were: Intellectual Property Protection for Plant Related Innovation: Fit for Future? Please note: Some nominations do not appear in the list above, exclusions were made for example for not being a book about IP Law, or not being published in 2022.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The first edition of Intellectual Property Law in China (IPLCN) was the first of a bunch of goodies this Kat enthusiastically gathered from the incomparable IP library of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (MPI). Curious about any new additions, and, being Chinese, this Kat rushed to get her paws on the new version.

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Patently-O

APRIL 30, 2024

Services like All Prior Art are using AI to churn out and ‘publish’ many millions of generated texts, hoping some will preempt future patent applications. Rather, my real concern is that the outflow of publications – many of which are senseless – will gum up the patent system in nefarious ways.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The USPTO is officially establishing a separate design patent practitioner bar with its final rule published on November 16, 2023 and effective January 2, 2024. Design Patent Bar: Can only prepare and prosecute design patents. All applicants also undergo a moral character evaluation.

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The IPKat

JULY 22, 2022

In 2006, work on simplifying procedures for the protection of industrial designs started in the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) , which has evolved into the draft for the proposed DLT. Review here the press release published by WIPO. Copyright: WIPO.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 18, 2021

One area of law that has been undergoing constant amendments due to changing technologies are patent laws. However, how are patent laws and AI interconnected? For one, there exists no clear-cut definition of AIs in any patent laws. AIs are considered as a subset of computer sciences.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

The Australian Government Initiative A Reddit thread (published on January 9) took on the issue of SMA drug pricing in India on the platform. The threat of bilateral consequences or similar allied issues will never be absent, how then the Right to Health will be guaranteed by the State, if not through its own enacted laws?

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The IPKat

AUGUST 2, 2024

The book argues against the idea that dematerialisation is a uniquely 21st century problem by looking at three situations where US patent law has already dealt with a dematerialised subject matter: 19th century chemical inventions, computer-related inventions in the 1970s, and biological subject matter across the 20th century.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The EPO has launched a user consultation on grace periods for patents, the results of which will be published in early 2022 ( EPO press release ). The EPC as it currently stands does not permit a grace period in which inventors may disclose their invention without prejudicing a future patent filing.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 25, 2024

The explosion of artificial intelligence has raised some challenging questions in patent law, particularly with prior art, or the body of knowledge available prior to the filing of patent application. Originally published in Bloomberg Law - July 22, 2024.

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SpicyIP

MAY 14, 2022

This year, we will be accepting entries from not only current law students but also those who completed their first law degree in 2019 or later. Two values that guided Shamnad through the course of his academic writing, were the need for transparency and democratic participation, during the process of making the law and implementation.

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The IPKat

JULY 3, 2024

in Germany First of all, some hot-off-the-press news: the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has just published its decision on AI inventorship, substantially concluding that a human contribution (not necessarily inventive) is invariably needed, even for AI-generated inventions. For further information and to register, click here.

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