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Month: December 2012
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McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar on the "Top Patent Law Stories of 2012" on January 22, 2013 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT). Patent Docs co-authors and MBHB attorneys Donald Zuhn and Kevin Noonan will take a look back at the top patent stories of 2012, many…
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Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Patent Term Adjustments and Extensions: Recent Developments — Leveraging Exelixis, Other Court Decisions and Recent USPTO Rule Changes to Maximize PTAs and PTEs" on January 22, 2013 from 1:00 – 2:30 pm (EST). Thomas L. Irving of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner; Donna M. Meuth, Senior Patent…
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The George Washington University Law School and Fordham University School of Law will be holding a joint program entitled "China's Patent Regime and its Quest to Become an Innovation Economy" on January 10, 2013 at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. The program will offer presentations on the following topics: • Keynote…
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Law Education Institute, Inc. (LEI) will be holding the 30th Annual National CLE Conference on January 2-5, 2013 in Snowmass, Colorado. The Intellectual Property program of the conference will offer presentations on a number of topics, including: • Keynote Address: Adjudicating Intellectual Property Disputes in the Digital Age — Honorable Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register (77 Fed. Reg. 72830) seeking public feedback on Request for Continued Examination (RCE) practice. The notice indicates that the Office currently has a backlog of more than 90,000 applications that have not been examined since an…
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By Donald Zuhn — On Tuesday, the European Patent Office reported that the European Parliament in Strasbourg had adopted two draft regulations on the creation of the unitary patent. The EPO hailed the adoption of the draft regulations as "a historic achievement." EPO President Benoît Battistelli declared that "[t]he European Union is to be congratulated…
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By Mark Richardson — Last week the pan-European Intellectual Property Summit (IP Summit) was held in Brussels and the first morning of the summit saw a number of discussions regarding the unitary patent and unified patent court. A common theme that seemed to crop up from anyone representing the official EU position was that the…
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Cats and the Federal Circuit By Kevin E. Noonan — Unlike dog breeds that tend to be of ancient vintage (Labra-doodles and Yorkie-poos to the contrary), many cat breeds are of relatively recent parentage. While there are many naturally occurring breeds (such as Maine Coons and Norwegian Forest Cats), a surprising number of cat breeds…
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By Sherri Oslick — About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Glycobiosciences, Inc. v. Anika Therapeutics, Inc.1:12-cv-01963; filed November 25, 2012 in the District Court of the District of Columbia Infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,120,804 ("Topical Drug Preparations," issued September 19, 2000) and 6,723,345 (same…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The Supreme Court granted certiorari Friday in Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., one of two cases with certiorari petitions before the Court relating to reverse payment settlement agreements in ANDA litigation under the Hatch Waxman Act. (The petition in the other case, In re K-Dur Antitrust Litigation, was…
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