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Month: September 2020
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Fitch Even will be offering a webinar entitled "Latest Developments in the Patentability of AI- and Software-Based Inventions" on September 24, 2020 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm (ET). Thomas F. Lebens and Zachary Van Engen of Fitch Even will provide an update on the latest legal developments in computer software patentability along with guidance…
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By Donald Zuhn — In a notice published in the Federal Register (85 Fed. Reg. 58038) earlier today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was implementing a deferred-fee provisional patent application pilot program in order to promote the expedited exchange of information about inventions designed to combat COVID–19. In the notice, the…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — There are an estimated 219 million cases of malaria per year, leading to more than 400,000 deaths annually according to the World Health Organization. Hemocytes (insect white blood cells) comprise the mosquito immune system and are the basis for immunity to malaria. There are three known hemocyte types: granulocytes (highly…
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By Circuit Judge Paul R. Michel (Ret.) and John T. Battaglia — The esteemed authors of Patent Docs have written of the need to reconsider the Federal Circuit's approach to section 101 eligibility, given the court's latest expansion and en-banc vote on subject-matter eligibility in AAM v. Neapco (Fed. Cir. July 31, 2020). Is It…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Having heard oral argument at a hearing held on Monday, May 18th, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board today entered its decision on these motions 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…
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By Donald Zuhn — Earlier today, the Federal Circuit vacated the final written decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board in an inter partes review involving Appellant Snyders Heart Valve LLC and Appellee St. Jude Medical, LLC, and remanded for proceedings consistent with the Court's decision in Arthrex, Inc.…
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By Donald Zuhn — USPTO Extends Cancer Immunotherapy Pilot Program In a notice published earlier this summer in the Federal Register (85 Fed. Reg. 41570), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was extending the Cancer Immunotherapy Pilot Program. According to the Office's notice, the Cancer Immunotherapy Pilot Program has been extended to…
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September 8, 2020 – "Compulife: Datascraping and Trade Secret Law" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm (ET) September 8, 2020 – IPWatchdog Virtual CON2020 – The Current State of Patent Eligibility Caselaw – 12:30 pm (ET) September 8, 2020 – IPWatchdog Virtual CON2020 – A Bridge of Tears for Life Sciences…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Is Alice Pulling Manufacturing Patents Down the Rabbit Hole?" on September 10, 2020 from 12:45 pm to 1:45 pm (ET). John Cheek of DRiV Inc. and Timothy McAnulty and Jeffrey Totten of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP will discuss how recent…
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LexisNexis IP and IPWatchdog and will be offering a webinar entitled "Myths of Litigated Patents" on September 10, 2020 at 12:00 pm (ET). Dr. Sean Tu, Professor, WVU College of Law; Megan McLoughlin of LexisNexis® IP; and Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog will discuss whether patent examiners who issue litigated patents have common characteristics? While intuition…
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