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Month: June 2020
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To a Mouse, by Robert Burns Little, cunning, cowering, timorous beast,Oh, what a panic is in your breast!You need not start away so hastyWith bickering prattle!I would be loath to run and chase you,With murdering paddle! I'm truly sorry man's dominionHas broken Nature's social union,And justifies that ill opinionWhich makes you startleAt me, your poor,…
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Patent Offices – June 14 Update By Donald Zuhn — In a notice posted on its website on Thursday, June 11, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was extending the time period for petitioning for certain rights of priority or benefit, as well as waiving the corresponding…
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June 16, 2020 – "Patent Strategy: Optimising Life Sciences Patents" (Gowling WLG) – 9:00 to 10:00 am EDT June 17, 2020 – "Strategies for Speeding up or Slowing Down Patent Prosecution" (J A Kemp) – 16:30 to 17:30 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) June 18, 2020 – "Ethical Issues in Litigation Funding: An Update" (Intellectual…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Ethical Issues in Litigation Funding: An Update" on June 18, 2020 at 2:00 pm (EDT). Gaston Kroub of Kroub, Silbersher & Malykov, Lucian Pera of Adams and Reese, and Anthony Sebok of Cardozo Law School will analyze the legal ethics issues raised for…
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Gowling WLG will be offering a webinar entitled "Patent Strategy: Optimising Life Sciences Patents" on June 16, 2020 from 9:00 to 10:00 am EDT. John Norman will moderate a panel consisting of Ruben Dzhermakyan (Moscow, Russia), Paul Inman (London, UK), Thomas Mayer (Munich, Germany), Jian Xu (Beijing, China), and Sonia Ziesche (Vancouver, Canada) of Gowling…
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LexisNexis and IPWatchdog will be offering a webinar entitled "How USPTO Examiner Type Affects Patents" on June 18, 2020 at 12:00 pm (ET). Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog.com, Megan McLoughlin of LexisNexis® IP, and Dr. Michael Sartori of Baker Botts will discuss the impact of the type of examiner by exploring important milestones in the life…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The inherent, ineluctable unpredictability of biology can be the basis for biological patent claims being non-obvious (lacking the requisite "reasonable expectation of success"; see, e.g., OSI Pharmaceuticals v. Apotex) and for the greater quantum of disclosure necessary to satisfy the written description and enablement requirements of § 112 (see, e.g.,…
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By Donald Zuhn — On March 11, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom declared that the COVID-19 outbreak "can be characterized as a pandemic." At the time of the announcement, the WHO noted that there were 118,000 cases reported globally; in its situation report for June 10, the WHO indicates that to date there have…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — In Amneal Pharmacueticals LLC v. Almirall, LLC, the Federal Circuit professed to address a question it had not considered before: whether attorney's fees and a exceptional case determination was available for fees and costs incurred when a patent owner defended an inter partes review (IPR) challenge before the Patent Trial…
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June 9, 2020 – "Discussion with Senior PTAB Judges on PTAB Operations in Light of COVID-19" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 2:00 pm (EDT) June 9, 2020 – "The Global Migration of IP" (LexisNexis and IPWatchdog) – 12:00 pm (ET) June 10, 2020 – "Practical Strategies for Agile IP Management" (CPA Global) – 16:00 CEST…
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