Year: 2020
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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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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,…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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