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Month: August 2007
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September 6-7, 2007 – Emerging Issues in Biotechnology Law (American Law Institute & American Bar Association) – Washington, D.C. September 12, 2007 – Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership Meeting (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) September 18-19, 2007 – Pharma/Biotech Patent Boot Camp (American Conference Institute) – San Francisco, IL*** September 24-25, 2007 – Biosimilars 2007 (Scherago International,…
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The biotechnology, chemical, and pharmaceuticals technology groups at the U.S. Patent Office will hold their quarterly customer partnership meeting on September 12, 2007. While the stated purpose of the meeting was merely to encourage dialog between practitioners, patent applicants, and the Office – and not to announce USPTO policy – the discussions may provide a…
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By Sherri Oslick — Set your bookmarks; the CAFC will be changing its web site address to conform to the naming convention used by the other U.S. appellate courts. Effective October 1, 2007, the CAFC web site will be available at http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov. In order to assist with the transition, the old web site…
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The inaugural Stem Cells European Business Summit will be held on October 11-12, 2007 in Edinburgh, Scotland. A business tutorial entitled: "Stem Cells: Latest Market Analysis andIntellectual Property Landscape" will be offered on October 10, 2007. The summit will focus on the following topics: Review of Bioethics Related to Stem Cells; Sources of Funding for…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — In an earlier post, Patent Docs provided a synopsis of that portion of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s August 23, 2007 webcast regarding the portion of the recently-published revised rules of practice regarding continuation applications. This article concerns the other major change in patent prosecution caused by…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The Patent and Trademark Office appears to recognize that the recently-published revised rules of practice regarding continuation applications and restrictions on total claim numbers are producing as much confusion as they are anger and concern among inventors, patent holders, and patent practitioners. (The rules have already provoked a…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The recently-published revised rules of practice promulgated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office differ in significant ways from the proposed rules published for comment on January 3, 2006. Some of these differences relate to the rules for filing divisional applications; these are a form of "continuing" application…
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By Christopher P. Singer — In an August 21, 2007 press release, Ocean Tomo Auctions, LLC (the auctions arm of Ocean Tomo LLC) announced the release of its auction catalogue for its fall live IP auction, to be held on October 25, 2007. The catalogue provides information regarding the assets up for auction…
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By Donald Zuhn — Yesterday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published its long-awaited rules changes for continuation application and claims practice. The 129-page notice, entitled "Changes To Practice for Continued Examination Filings, Patent Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims, and Examination of Claims in Patent Applications; Final Rule," can be obtained here. In…
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By Donald Zuhn — On August 20, 2007, the Federal Circuit reversed an award of priority by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences to Drs. C. Richard Schlegel and A. Bennett Jenson (Schlegel), and instead awarded priority to Drs. Ian Frazer and Jian Zhou (Frazer). The Federal Circuit also remanded the case…
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