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Month: July 2015
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By James Lovsin and Andrew Williams — Earlier this week, the Federal Circuit issued an order denying a petition for rehearing en banc in the In re Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC case. As we have previously reported, this case was the first appeal of the first IPR Final Written Decision for the first IPR ever…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last month, in Mohsenzadeh v. Lee, the Federal Circuit affirmed the decision by the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granting summary judgment to the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that the Office had properly calculated the Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) for U.S. Patent Nos. 8,352,362…
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By David Grosby and Michael Borella — On September 23, 2010, Eon filed suit against seventeen defendants in the District Court of the District of Delaware, alleging infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,663,757. During the case, the '757 patent went through two reexaminations. The claims were amended in the first reexamination, and then confirmed valid as…
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By Josh Rich — In 2009, Sergey Aleynikov was a computer programmer employed by Goldman Sachs to write high-frequency trading code. He accepted an offer to join a new Chicago-based company, Teza Technologies. Before he left Goldman Sachs, however, he sent portions of Goldman's high frequency trading code to a German website for his own…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last month, the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) published a list of the top 100 worldwide universities that received the most U.S. utility patents in 2014. The NAI is a non-profit organization comprising U.S. and international universities, and governmental and non-profit research institutions, with…
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July 8-10, 2015 – Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution 2015: A Boot Camp for Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing (Practising Law Institute) – San Francisco, CA July 9, 2015 – "Leveraging Post-Grant Patent Proceedings Before the PTAB — Best Practices for Patentees and Third Parties in Inter Partes Review, Post-Grant Review and Covered Business Method Patent…
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Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding a two-day seminar entitled: "Advanced Patent Prosecution Seminar 2015: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing" on July 16-17, 2015 in New York, NY, on August 10-11, 2015 in San Francisco, CA, and on September 10-11, 2015 in Chicago, IL. Patent Docs authors Donald Zuhn and Kevin Noonan will be…
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Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Section 103 and Non-Obviousness Post-AIA — Navigating Timing Changes, Federal Court Treatment, and Secondary Considerations to Meet Patent Validity Requirements" on July 23, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT). Thomas L. Irving and Erika H. Arner of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner will provide guidance to…
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By Paul Cole* — The June 12, 2015 decision of the Federal Circuit in the above case has been discussed by Kevin Noonan in his posting of 22 June, but it is believed that the factual and legal background could benefit from further discussion. It is convenient to consider claims 1 and 2 of…
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Life Sciences Top 55 By Donald Zuhn — Last week, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) announced the release of its 32nd annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. patents (see "Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2014"). Patent Docs Readers may recall that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office stopped releasing…
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