Month: June 2020

  •     By Donald Zuhn — In April, the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granting summary judgment in favor of Repro-Med Systems, Inc., finding that Repro-Med did not infringe U.S. Patent No. 8,961,476.  EMED Technologies Corp., which owns the '476 patent, had filed suit against Repro-Med,…

  • The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Discussion with Senior PTAB Judges on PTAB Operations in Light of COVID-19" on June 9, 2020 at 2:00 pm (EDT).  Hon. Jacqueline Wright Bonilla, Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge; Hon. Michael W. Kim, Acting Vice Chief Administrative Patent Judge for Operations; and Hon.…

  • The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Litigation Funding Underwriting: How Good Is Your Patent Case?" on June 11, 2020 at 2:00 pm (EDT).  Charles Agee of Westfleet Advisors, Eric Carlson of Burford Capita, and Christopher Lee of Lee Sheikh Megley & Hahn will give attendees sophisticated insight into how…

  • J A Kemp will be offering a webinar entitled "Strategies for Speeding up or Slowing Down Patent Prosecution" on June 17, 2020 from 16:30 to 17:30 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).  Ravi Srinivasan and Mark Roberts of J A Kemp will look at the procedural options that the EPO offers to streamline prosecution as well…

  • LexisNexis and IPWatchdog will be offering a webinar entitled "The Global Migration of IP" on June 9, 2020 at 12:00 pm (ET).  Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog.com; Mike McLean, formerly of TechInsights; Will Mansfield and Dr. Dirk Caspary of PatentSight® – A LexisNexis Company will show how the migration pattern for two technologies (LED and lithium-ion…

  • CPA Global will hosting a webinar entitled "Practical Strategies for Agile IP Management" on June 10, 2020 beginning at 16:00 CEST.  Nadine Stuttle of Duff & Phelps, Gordon MacSween and Peter Thelen of CPA Global will address the following questions: • What opportunities can we seize as we evolve toward a 'new normal'• What has the…

  • By Kevin E. Noonan — Lions (Panthera leo) once were a widely distributed group of terrestrial mammals, ranging during the Pleistocene (from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago) in Eurasia, Africa, and North America, with species that included the still-extant modern lions (Panthera leo leo), the cave lion (Panthera leo spelaea), and the American lion…

  • By Donald Zuhn — Today, 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 during the 2019 calendar year.  The NAI is a member organization comprising U.S. and international universities, and governmental and non-profit research…

  • By Donald Zuhn –- USPTO and JPO Issue Joint Message Yesterday, Director Andrei Iancu of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Commissioner Akira Matsunaga of the Japan Patent Office issued a joint message to express the Offices' "most heartfelt sympathies to the victims of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and their families," and "hope that everyone…

  • UIC John Marshall's Center for Intellectual Property, Information & Privacy Law will be offering its Annual Ethics in the Practice of IP Law Seminar — for the first time as an online webinar — on June 5, 2020 from noon to 3:45 pm (CDT).  The program will cover a variety of topics on ethics and…