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Federal Circuit Rebukes Attempt to Incorporate Arguments by Reference to a Related IPR Petition

Intellectual Property Law Blog

In the IPRs, Medtronic asserted that the “Itou” reference qualified as prior art under the pre-AIA § 102(e). Background Medtronic filed two IPR petitions challenging certain claims in Teleflex’s ’116 patent.

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Copyright References in the Budget: Good Intentions Are Welcome but Early Action is Needed

Hugh Stephens Blog

Last week I discussed the copyright needle buried in the 2022 Canadian budget haystack, a reference to impending legislation to amend the Copyright Act to fulfill Canada’s obligation under the USMCA/CUSMA to extend its term of copyright protection from the life of the author plus 50 years to “life plus 70”.

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SCOTUS Denies Petition to Review CAFC Precedent on Articulating Justification of Primary Reference Selection

IP Watchdog

The petition specifically asked the Court to review the CAFC’s holding that Schwendimann’s argument that “justification for selection of a primary reference is a necessary step to guard against hindsight bias for the motivation to combine references” was unsupported by Federal Circuit case law.

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Higher Burden of Demonstrating Public Accessibility of a Reference at Final Decision Stage

JD Supra Law

inter partes review, the PTAB found that at the final decision stage a petitioner must establish public accessibility of a reference…. In denying Petitioner Medivis, Inc.’s s (“Medivis”) Request for Rehearing of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“PTAB”) Final Written Decision (“FWD”) in Medivis, Inc. Novarad Corp. By: Jones Day

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Total References Cited

Patently-O

The chart below shows a histogram of the total number of references per patent. Utility patents issued in 2021) with the mode, median, and average noted.

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CCC’s RightFind Cite It Reference Management Software Now Available for PowerPoint

Velocity of Content

In response to overwhelming client feedback, CCC is excited to announce that we are making it easier than ever to automatically manage references when working in Microsoft PowerPoint. For example, Medical Information and Medical Communication teams have stressed how important it is to manage references within PowerPoint.

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Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB’s Ruling of Swearing Behind a Prior Art Reference

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Medtronics filed five IPR petitions using the ’355 patent as the primary prior art reference under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § (“VSI”), asserted that the claimed invention of the challenged patents was conceived in early 2005.

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