Patent Law Weblog
Year: 2020
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Clarivate Derwent and IPWatchdog will be offering a webinar entitled "Competitive Differentiation Through Big Data Analytics" on June 23, 2020 at 12:00 pm (ET). Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog.com; DJ (Dipanjan) Nag of Ventech Solutions, Raymond Hegarty, author of the e-books "Intellectual Property for Executives" (2018) and "Billion Dollar IP Strategy" (2019); and Vashe Kanesarajah of…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last week, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu sent a letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate and House Committees on the Judiciary, Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, and House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, responding to an April 14, 2020 request to…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The Federal Circuit during 2019 and 2020 has issued a spate of decisions on the proper application of the Doctrine of Equivalents (see, e.g., UCB, Inc. v. Watson Laboratories Inc. and Galderma Laboratories, L.P. v. Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC) and its related limiting doctrines, prosecution history estoppel (Amgen Inc. v. Coherus…
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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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