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- Parties File Supplemental Priority Statements in CRISPR Interference
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- Meanwhile, Back at the PTAB with CRISPR – Update
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Month: September 2018
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By Joseph Herndon — Zheng Cai DBA Tai Chi Green Tea Inc. appealed an opinion of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) cancelling registration of his mark "WU DANG TAI CHI GREEN TEA" due to a likelihood of confusion with Diamond Hong, Inc.'s registered mark, "TAI CHI," pursuant to…
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September 18, 2018 – "The Continued Influence of PTAB Proceedings on Bio/Pharma Patents" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT) September 18, 2018 – "3D Printing: Implications for Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets and Copyrights — Challenges With Additive Manufacturing, Policing and Enforcement Strategies to Protect IP" (Strafford) – 1:00…
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The Program in Intellectual Property Law, Center for Empirical Studies of Intellectual Property, and Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States at the Chicago-Kent College of Law will be holding its ninth annual Supreme Court IP Review (SCIPR) — Patent Edition on September 21, 2018 from 9:00 am to 5:15 pm (Central) at…
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The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will be offering a CLE program and dinner entitled "2018 Bench & Bar® in Dialogue: Federal Circuit Court Visit!" on October 3, 2018 from 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm (CT) at the Langham Hotel in Chicago, IL. The program will include presentations on the following topics: • Supreme Court…
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The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) Patents-International Committee will be presenting a panel discussion entitled "European and Canadian Patent Practices" on September 26, 2018 from 11:45 am to 1:00 pm (CT) at the DePaul College of Law in Chicago, IL. Part 1 of the seminar, to be presented by Dr. Mash-Hud Iqbal of…
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Strafford will be offering a webinar entitled "Using Broadest Reasonable Interpretation to Your Advantage in Patent Prosecution — Establishing Scope of Claims, Avoiding Sect. 112(f), Preserving Enforceability" on September 27, 2018 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT). Christopher Francis and Daniel Hegner of Bejin Bieneman will guide patent prosecution under the broadest reasonable interpretation (BRI)…
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A one-day, comparative law symposium on "Patent Litigation in Japan and Germany" will be held on October 4, 2018 at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (GPTO) in Munich, Germany. Experts on patent litigation proceedings from Japan and Germany will be speaking at the event, providing an overview of the current case law in…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Determining obviousness is always a reconstruction, imperfectly done, of a past that never was. The prior art is consulted and the question asked, would the worker of ordinary skill in the art have been able to achieve the claimed invention with a reasonable expectation of success? Of course, this question…
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Claim for Scheduling Packet Data Communication Survives Patent Eligibility Challenge in Motion to Dismiss By James Korenchan — Last week, in yet another patent case before Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Marshall Division, the Court ruled that Defendants T Mobile USA, Inc. and T-Mobile US, Inc.…
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Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB in Appeal of CRISPR Interference By Kevin E. Noonan — Barring the unlikely event that the Federal Circuit rehears en banc today's decision in Regents of the University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc. (or, even more unlikely, that the Supreme Court grants certiorari), the interference between the Broad Institute and…
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