Year: 2020
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The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will be offering a CLE program on "Enhancing Diversity & Inclusion in IP Law and Beyond" on March 5, 2020 from 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm (ET) at The Army and Navy Club in Washington, DC. The program will include two panels: a Pipeline Panel will explore how a…
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be offering the next webinar in its Patent Quality Chat webinar series from 12:00 to 1:00 pm (ET) on February 19, 2020. The latest webinar, entitled "Application readiness: Assessing incoming applications," will address how the USPTO is studying the shared responsibility of patent examination quality in the area…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer two one-hour webinars on February 20 and 26, 2020. In the first webinar, entitled "Blocking Patents in Litigation after Acorda: What's Acorda's Impact Inside and Outside of Pharma?" which will be held on February 20, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET), Elaine Blais of Goodwin Procter,…
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Claims Directed to Capture and Output of Digital Content Held Patent Ineligible By James Korenchan — A few weeks ago, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware granted Defendants' Rule 12 motions in three different cases, each naming Pebble Tide LLC (hereinafter, "Pebble") as Plaintiff. The Defendants in the three cases were Arlo…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Ever since the Supreme Court's decision in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories was handed down in 2012, diagnostic method claims have been routinely invalidated by the district courts and those decisions upheld by the Federal Circuit. Indeed, in her recent dissent of the Court's denial of patentee's petition for…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — On January 9th, Junior Party the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") filed a Motion in Opposition to Senior Party The Broad Institute, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (collectively, "Broad") Substantive Motion No. 3 in support of the Patent Trial and…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Expert witness testimony is a frequent (almost ubiquitous) feature of patent litigation, if only because questions of the state of the art or the understanding of one having ordinary skill in the art are almost always at issue for claim construction, infringement, and invalidity issues. In HVLPO2, LLC v. Oxygen…
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February 12, 2020 – "Global Patent Trends in Biologics Innovation" (Derwent) – 11:00 am (EST) February 13, 2020 – "Litigating Civil and Criminal Trade Secret Cases: Trends, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned" (Practising Law Institute) – 1:00 to 2:00 pm (EST) February 18, 2020 – "Patent Eligibility and Section 101 Update" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert &…
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Derwent will be offering a webinar on "Global Patent Trends in Biologics Innovation" on February 12, 2020 starting at 11:00 am (EST). Rose Hughes of AstraZeneca and Caroline Peel of Clarivate Analytics will discuss the trends shaping the biosequence technology landscape and also give attendees a preview into what these trends mean for the industry at large. …
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Continuing explication of the motions submitted on January 9th to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Interference No. 106155 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…
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