For next week’s World Trade Organization intellectual property committee meeting, the major developing economies have submitted a request to discuss the recently released report of the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Me…
Continue Reading ...World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan today warned of serious funding shortfalls for the current biennium endangering the implementation of certain programmes. Areas most in need of financing include non-communicable diseases (such a…
Continue Reading ...The Russian intellectual property industry is on the verge of a new scandal. Following the recent arrest of Sergey Fedotov, head of the Russian Authors’ Society (RAS), Russia’s leading public association for the protection of intellectual property rights, on the charge of multi-million ruble thefts, the Russian police has announced the initiation of criminal proceedings against Maxim Ryabyko, head of the Russian Association for the Protection of Copyright on the Internet (RAPCI).
Continue Reading ...By the end of the calendar year, most newly issued US utility patents will be considered “AIA Patents.” AIA-patents are examined under the first-to-file rules of the America Invents Act of 2011 and are also subject to potential post-grant-review proceedings. The chart below shows results from a random sample of 7,300 recently issued patents.
Continue Reading ...The FCC’s broadband privacy rules require ISPs to present their customers with a choice to opt in or opt out of providing consent to use certain categories of information which are deemed to be sensitive. Such sensitive information includes any data pertaining the the customer’s geo-location, health, finances, children, Social Security number, browsing history, app usage history or the content of electronic communications. Information related to a customer’s e-mail address or tier level of…
The Track One program was instituted on September 23, 2011, as part of the America Invents Act. Known officially as the “Prioritized Patent Examination Program,” the USPTO promises a final disposition within 12 months for applicants who participate in the program and who pay the $4,000 fee for the privilege. To be eligible for participation in the program, an application can have no more than four independent claims and 30 dependent claims and no multiple dependent claims. Per USPTO…
More than five years after the Federal Circuit’s en banc decision in Therasense and its first proposed rulemaking under that decision, the USPTO has issued a new proposed rulemaking to adapt its duty of disclosure rule (37 CFR § 1.56) to the court’s decision. As set forth in the October 28, 2016 Federal Register Notice, the revised rule would … Continue reading this entry
Continue Reading ...By Michael Borella — Synopsys brought a patent infringement action against Mentor Graphics in the Northern District of California, alleging infringement of various claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,530,841, 5,680,318, 5,748,488, and 6,836,420. Claim 1 of t…
Continue Reading ...November 1, 2016 – “Patent Prosecution and Defeating Abstractness: Minimizing the Risk of Sect. 101 Rejection — Lessons From Recent Federal Circuit Court Decisions” (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) November 1, 2016 – “Drug Substance Patents: Levera…
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Continue Reading ...What is the best way to assess the potential value or use of a patent portfolio? Before we examine this, it’s important to clarify that a patent only has value in the context of its place in a portfolio and in how the portfolio is used to support the organization’s business strategy. Let’s look at two examples. A Patent Assertion Entity will evaluate patent value based solely on the potential revenue that will come from a licensing program. On the other hand, an operating company typically…
A short aside from Dennis Crouch In Phillips v. AWH, the en banc Federal Circuit included an oddball statement regarding PHOSITA perspective in claim construction. The court wrote that the focus is on the meaning to PHOSITA “at the time of the invention, i.e., as of the effective filing date of the patent application.” I call […]
Continue Reading ...Over the last two years, the Australian patent and trade mark attorney profession has seen a number of significant changes. The 2013 amendments to the Patents Act 1990, meant that Australian patent and trade mark attorney firms could incorporate. This …
Continue Reading ...The $41.4 million settlement ends a legal clash that had previously led to the largest damages award for corrective advertising ever. The jury verdict was entered in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (M.D. Fla.) and the settlem…
Continue Reading ...The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled “Obviousness After Apple v. Samsung” on November 2, 2016 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET). Robert Asher of Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers, Kenneth Corsello of IBM Co…
Continue Reading ...The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will be offering a program entitled “Evolution of Patent Litigation: Interface of Judicial and Administrative Patent Proceedings” on November 9, 2016 from 4:00 to 7:15 pm (EDT) at the Northeastern University S…
Continue Reading ...McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar entitled “Covered Business Method (CBM) Patent Review: Another Way to Kill Software Patents?” on November 15, 2016 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT). In this presentation, MBHB attorney and Patent Docs author Joseph Herndon will provide a review of CBMs and PTAB decisions focusing on both early and more recent trends by the PTAB. Topics will include: • What are CBMs? • Non-uniformity in PTAB rulings • Differing Views on the Subject Matter Considered: Specification, Claims, or Both? • How CBMs are used against Software patents While…
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