Month: October 2021

  • Spruson & Ferguson will be offering a webinar entitled "Practical Insights into Patent Term Extensions in Australia" on October 21, 2021 at 4:00 pm (ET).  Daniel Sieveking and Elizabeth Barrett of Spruson & Ferguson will provide a summary of various criteria regarding patent term extension (PTE) eligibility and the PTE application process in Australia, and…

  • By Kevin E. Noonan — On May 20th, Senior Party ToolGen filed its Substantive Motion No. 1 for benefit of priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/837,481, filed June 20, 2013 ("P3" or "ToolGen 5 P3"), or alternatively, International Application No. PCT/KR2013/009488, filed October 23, 2013 ("PCT").  Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and…

  • By Kevin E. Noonan — The Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., 141 S. Ct. 1970 (2021), at the end of its last term resulted in many cases with pending certiorari petitions that were based on Appointment Clause challenges to be remanded to the Federal Circuit, and many (if not most) of…

  • The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Protecting, Licensing and Enforcing AI Intellectual Property" on October 12, 2021 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm (ET).  Frank DeCosta of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP; Andrea Lynn Evensen of Siemens Corporation; and Brian Welle of IBM will walk through an…

  • The International Intellectual Property Law Association (IIPLA) will be offering a live webinar by J. Baron Lesperance of Remenick PLLC on "Using Customs to Protect Your Intellectual Property" on October 14, 2021 from 10:00 am to 11:00 am (EST). Those wishing to register for the webinar can do so here.

  • IPWatchdog and Dennemeyer and will be offering a webinar entitled "The Future of IP: Megatrends in Times of Upheaval" on October 14, 2021 at 12:00 pm (ET).  Cornelia Peuser of Dennemeyer Consulting GmbH and Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog, Inc. will discuss the results of a study conducted by Dennemeyer, and also discuss the coronavirus crisis…

  • By Kevin E. Noonan — The International Trade Commission can more readily provide injunctive relief against an adjudged infringer than a district court, under appropriate conditions (i.e., with regard to an infringing product or a product made by infringing a claimed method).  In September, the Federal Circuit affirmed an exclusion order by the Commission in…

  • By Michael Borella — CosmoKey asserted U.S. Patent No. 9,246,903 against Duo in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleging infringement.  The District Court found the patent's claims to be ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 because they were directed to an abstract idea and lacked an inventive concept.  On review, the…

  • By Kevin E. Noonan — On May 20th, Junior Party the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna; and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") filed its Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 3 in Interference No. 106,127 (which names ToolGen as Senior Party), asking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to add claims in ToolGen's U.S. Patent…

  • October 5, 2021 – "Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month" (Intellectual Property Owners Association Education Foundation) – 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm (ET). October 5-21, 2021 – Hatch-Waxman and BPCIA Virtual Proficiency Series (American Conference Institute) October 7, 2021 – "Green Technologies – Patenting Trends and Technology Development" (J A Kemp) – 16:00 BST (British Summer Time)…