Year: 2020
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Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be offering a one-hour webcast on "Litigating Civil and Criminal Trade Secret Cases: Trends, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned" on February 13, 2020 beginning at 1:00 pm (EST). Jeffrey M. Fisher and Janice W. Reicher of Farella Braun + Martel LLP will provide an overview of: • Trends in trade…
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By Dan Feigelson* — Many patent practitioners will never have need to file a patent application in Israel, a country of nine million people that's geographically smaller than New Jersey. But if you're one of those practitioners who does file in Israel from time to time — and I suspect that readers of Patent Docs…
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By Donald Zuhn –- Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued two reports suggesting that declining private investment and lack of innovation in the development of new antibiotics is undermining efforts to combat drug-resistant infections. The WHO reports address fifty antibiotics (and ten antibacterial biologics) that are currently in clinical and preclinical development (see…
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By Donald Zuhn –- Last week, the Federal Circuit issued a per curiam Order in BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. v. Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc., denying a petition for a panel rehearing or rehearing en banc filed by Appellant BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. Judge Newman dissented from the denial of the petition for rehearing en banc. The…
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January 22, 2020 – "Top Patent Law Stories of 2019" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT) January 22, 2020 – "Pot Topic: IP Issues for the New Recreational Weed Industry in Illinois" (The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago Young Members' Committee) – 5:30 to 9:00 pm (CT),…
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be holding its next biotechnology/chemical/pharmaceutical (BCP) customer partnership meeting on January 28, 2020 at the USPTO Headquarters in Alexandria, VA. The agenda for the meeting is as follows: • Welcoming and Opening Remarks (10:30 – 10:40 am ET) — Gary Jones and Andrew Wang, Directors, and Karl Skowronek,…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Text and Data Mining Laws: International Developments" on January 23, 2020, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET). Aaron Chalfoos of Jones Day, Professor Bernt Hugenholtz of the University of Amsterdam, and Gail Zarick of IBM will discuss: • The many aspects of law…
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J A Kemp will be offering a webinar entitled "Obtaining Patent Protection for Polymorphs of Drug Compounds" on January 28, 2020 from 3:30 to 4:30 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Chris Milton and Guy Brain of J A Kemp will discuss some of the issues faced during the drafting and prosecution of patent applications for…
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Fitch Even will be offering a webinar entitled "American Axle: Does Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Depend on Enablement?" on January 30, 2020 from 12:00 to 1:00 pm (ET). Stanley A. Schlitter and Andrew C. Wood of Fitch Even will discuss the following: • The district court and Federal Circuit decisions in this case• Arguments presented…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Last week, the Federal Circuit affirmed invalidation of claims to methods for reducing Protein A leaching in affinity column chromatographic methods important inter alia in purifying monoclonal antibodies, in Genentech, Inc. v. Hospira, Inc. In doing so, the panel majority (over a dissent by Judge Newman) illustrated anew the importance…
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