Year: 2020
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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…
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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…
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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…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — In the Supreme Court's recent clarifying campaign through the Federal Circuit's U.S. patent law jurisprudence, one section of the statute, 35 U.S.C. §112(a) has been noticeably left unscathed. Indeed, avoidance of this statutory section continues a pattern that has existed since the 1952 Patent Act was enacted. It is not…
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Claims for an Interactive 3D Virtual Environment Found Patent Ineligible By James Korenchan — In the field of computer gaming, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently granted Defendants' Rule 12 motion alleging that claims 1, 3, and 6 of U.S. Patent No. 8,228,325 (the '325 Patent) are invalid as claiming…
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Patent Offices and Federal Courts – May 27 UPDATE By Donald Zuhn –- In a notice posted on its website earlier today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was further extending the time to file certain patent-related documents and to pay certain required fees, but only for…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The human tendency to identify with tribes of "like" humans (related by family, place of origin, or religion, among other bases) was perverted during the Twentieth Century (and in some places remains so today) into the idea of "purity" along racial lines. The foolishness of this thinking, insofar as it…
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Life Sciences "Top 53" By Donald Zuhn — Last week, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and Harrity Analytics announced the release of the 37th annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. utility patents (see "Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2019"). Patent Docs readers may recall that the U.S. Patent and…
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May 26, 2020 – "Innovation and Incentive Systems" (Federal Circuit Bar Association) – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (EST) May 26, 2020 – "Licensing and Collaborations: Common Pitfalls and Best Practice" (Lexology Webinars, iam, and Potter Clarkson) – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (EDT) May 26, 2020 – "Modern Patent Research: Capitalizing on Information Across…
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The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will be offering a remote program entitled "Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities" on May 28, 2020 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (EST). Patrick Keane of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC will moderate a panel consisting of Uren Chen of Qualcomm Inc.; Ron Dimock of Gowling WLG; Laura Sheridan of…
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