Year: 2020
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By Joshua Rich — Less than two years ago, in Return Mail, Inc. v. U.S. Postal Service, 139 S. Ct. 1853 (2018), the Supreme Court held that a government entity — in that case, the U.S. Postal Service — is not a "person" under the America Invents Act, and therefore unable to avail itself of…
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CVC Reply No. 2 to Broad’s Opposition No. 2 to CVC’s Motion No. 2 to Be Accorded Benefit of Priority
By Kevin E. Noonan — March 23rd was the deadline for the parties 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 of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC"), to file their Reply Briefs to…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The procedural niceties of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's implementation of the post-grant review features of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act continue to be explicated in the Federal Circuit (and of course, the Supreme Court). Most recently, the question before the Federal Circuit in Nike, Inc. v. Adidas AG…
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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," cautioning that the WHO has "rung the alarm bell loud and clear." At the time of the announcement, the WHO noted that there were 118,000 cases reported globally; in its situation…
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CVC Reply No. 1 to Broad’s Opposition No. 1 to CVC’s Motion No. 1 to Be Accorded Benefit of Priority
By Kevin E. Noonan — March 23rd was a busy day at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) regarding 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 of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC"),…
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April 14, 2020 – "What's in the Trump Trade Agreements regarding Intellectual Property?" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT) April 14, 2020 – "Innovation in the Age of COVID-19: The Future of Drug Repurposing, Diagnostics, Ventilators, Personal Protective Equipment and More" (LexisNexis® and IPWatchdog) – 11:00 am to…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "The Impact of COVID-19 on Patent Prosecution and Examination" on April 16, 2020, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm (ET). Thomas Gibb of Murgitroyd; Laura Peter, Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and Michael Richardson, director of the PCT Business Development…
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LexisNexis® and IPWatchdog will be offering a webinar on "Innovation in the Age of COVID-19: The Future of Drug Repurposing, Diagnostics, Ventilators, Personal Protective Equipment and More" on April 14, 2020 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm (EDT). Jeff Blumenfeld of Lowenstein Sandler, Orin Herskowitz of Columbia University and Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV), Phil Johnson…
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AON and IPWatchdog will be offering a webinar on "Increased IP Liability and Trade Secret Theft Risk During A Downturn Economy" on April 16, 2020 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm (EDT). Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog.com and Brian Hinman and Nick Chmielewski of Aon Intellectual Property Solutions will discuss the ways that companies can assess…
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J A Kemp will be offering a webinar entitled "Dosage Patents in the UK, Europe and Beyond" on April 21, 2020 from 15:30 to 16:30 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Amanda Simons and Ravi Srinivasan of J A Kemp will consider the law surrounding dosage patents at the EPO and in the UK and the…
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