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Month: January 2021
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Gowling WLG will be offering a three-part US Tech Webinar Series. The third webinar in that series, which is entitled "IP Law and Strategy for AI — A European Perspective," will be offered from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm ET on January 28, 2021. Matt Hervey and Neil Hendron of Gowling WLG (London) will talk…
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Fitch Even will be offering a webinar entitled "Means Plus Function Claim Construction in Patent Prosecution and Litigation" on January 27, 2021 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm (EST). Jon A. Birmingham of Fitch Even will discuss these topics and more: • How to identify means plus function claim terms• How to construe means plus function claim terms•…
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By Donald Zuhn –- On Tuesday, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu, in one of his last acts before stepping down from the post, sent a letter to Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Christopher Coons (D-DE), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) of the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property for the Senate Judiciary Committee, responding to the…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — When I awoke, the dire wolfSix hundred pounds of sinWas grinning at my windowAll I said was, "Come on in" But don't murder me, I beg of youDon't murder me, please, don't murder me "Dire Wolf," Grateful Dead, Workingman's Dead The dire wolf (Canis dirus), prototype of the various wolves…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The COVID-19 pandemic has spread throughout the globe, infecting more than 90 million people and causing almost two million deaths (see "Tracking coronavirus’ global spread"). SARS-CoV-2 infection is the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic; this virus is recognized as the latest viral infection in humans of zoonotic origins, in this…
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January 19, 2021 – "How Innovation & Creativity Drive American Competitiveness" (U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center, International Trademark Association, and Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm (ET) January 20, 2021 – "When 'Please amend to fall into line with the granted claims in the US' (Shiga International Patent…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Sanofi, Vanda, and GSK, a New Year Voyage through the Land of Induced Infringement" on January 21, 2021 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm (ET). Tom Irving of Finnegan of Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP will moderate a panel consisting of Daniela…
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC), International Trademark Association (INTA), and Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will be offering an online event entitled "How Innovation & Creativity Drive American Competitiveness" from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm (ET) on January 19, 2021. Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), and USPTO…
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Shiga International Patent Office & HGF Limited will be offering a webinar entitled "When 'Please amend to fall into line with the granted claims in the US' might not work in Europe and Japan" on January 20, 2021 at 5:00 pm (ET). Masato Iida, Kentaro Horie, Craig Thomson, and Mike Nelson will examine a sample…
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By Donald Zuhn –- After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its 14th annual list of top patent stories. For 2020, we identified eight stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe had (or are likely to have) a significant impact on patent practitioners and…
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