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Month: April 2020
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Gender Diversity in Innovation Toolkit — Virtual Roadshow" on April 28, 2020, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET). Sandra Nowak of 3M Company; Molly Kocialski, Director of the Rocky Mountain Regional Office, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; Karen Maples of FutureForward; and Andrew…
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be offering the next webinar in its Patent Quality Chat webinar series from 12:00 to 1:00 pm (ET) on April 21, 2020. The latest webinar, entitled "International Patent Cooperation Initiatives," will address how the USPTO is engaged in a variety of worksharing programs and initiatives that bring multiple-office…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Inequitable Conduct: A Refresher and Update" on April 23, 2020, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET). William Covey, Deputy General Counsel and Director of the Office of Enrollment and Discipline for the U.S. patent and Trademark Office; David Hricik, Mercer University School of…
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LexisNexis® and IPWatchdog will be offering a webinar on "Patent Management: Uncovering Cost-Savings in your Portfolio" on April 23, 2020 at 12:00 pm (EDT). Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog.com and Williams Mansfield of LexisNexis® will discuss how to: • calculate the overall annuity fees for your patent portfolio,• quickly analyze your's or your competitors’ renewal fees,•…
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The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will be offering a webcast entitled "Recent PTAB Developments" on April 23, 2020 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm (EST). Christopher Geyer of Appian Corporation will moderate a panel consisting of David Cavanaugh of WilmerHale, Sharonmoyee Goswami of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, and Jonathan Stroud of Unified Patents,…
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Fitch Even will be offering a webinar entitled "Linking an Invention to the Evidence: Strategic Considerations from Prosecution to Litigation" on April 23, 2020 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm (ET). Mark A. Borsos and Evan Kline-Wedeen of Fitch Even will discuss the following: • Establishing a nexus between evidence of commercial success of real-world…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The latest installment in the cat-and-mouse game of deciding priority in Interference No 106,155 between Senior Party The Broad Institute, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (collectively, "Broad") and Junior Party the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") is CVC's filing of…
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By Joshua Rich — Less than two years ago, in Return Mail, Inc. v. U.S. Postal Service, 139 S. Ct. 1853 (2018), the Supreme Court held that a government entity — in that case, the U.S. Postal Service — is not a "person" under the America Invents Act, and therefore unable to avail itself of…
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CVC Reply No. 2 to Broad’s Opposition No. 2 to CVC’s Motion No. 2 to Be Accorded Benefit of Priority
By Kevin E. Noonan — March 23rd was the deadline for the parties in Interference No. 106,115 between Senior Party The Broad Institute, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (collectively, "Broad") and Junior Party the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC"), to file their Reply Briefs to…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The procedural niceties of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's implementation of the post-grant review features of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act continue to be explicated in the Federal Circuit (and of course, the Supreme Court). Most recently, the question before the Federal Circuit in Nike, Inc. v. Adidas AG…
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