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Month: April 2022
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "The Power of Corporate Pledges" on April 28, 2022 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm (ET). Brett Alten of Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Bowman Heiden of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital, UC-Berkeley; Allen Lo of Meta Platforms: and Corey Salsberg…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — On December 3rd, Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, Broad) filed its Contingent Preliminary Motion No. 2 in Interference No. 106,133 (which names Sigma-Aldrich as Senior Party), asking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to add claims 52-54 of Broad Application No. 16/177,403 to the interference,…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Personal jurisdiction is one of those basic concepts in civil procedure that evokes strong memories in most lawyers, of their first year in law school, cases like International Shoe, Burger King, Helicopteros, and World-Wide Volkswagen, and perhaps even a bit of painful nostalgia for a time when they were maybe…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — On December 3rd, Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, Broad) filed its Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 in Interference No. 106,133 (which names Sigma-Aldrich as Senior Party), asking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to substitute the interference Count, pursuant to the provisions of 37 C.F.R.…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — On a spring Saturday in a year when three major holidays — Easter, Passover, and Ramadan — coincided or overlapped, The New York Times Editorial Board decided it was time to announce that the "United States Patent and Trademark Office is in dire need of reform" ("Save America's Patent System,"…
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By Michael Borella — This weekend The New York Times published an editorial opinion entitled "Save America's Patent System." It bemoans the purported prevalence of "bad patents" — including "uninspiring tweaks" to existing products — that supposedly undermine innovation. This led the Times to call for radical patent reform. The Times continues a trend that has…
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April 19, 2022 – "Strategies for Stopping Patent Infringement on Amazon" (IPWatchdog and Vorys) – 12:00 pm (ET) April 19, 2022 – Examination practices and procedural guidance for 35 U.S.C. § 103 obviousness rejections (Part 1) – virtual Instructor-Led Training (vILT) series (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – 9:00 am to 11:00 am (ET) April…
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IPWatchdog and Vorys will be offering a webinar entitled "Strategies for Stopping Patent Infringement on Amazon" on April 19, 2022 at 12:00 pm (ET). Jessica Cunning, Jeremy Harrison, Tim Ardizzone, and Jake Morgan of Vorys and Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog, Inc. will discuss avenues through which patent owners can leverage their patents to remove infringing…
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As part of its virtual Instructor-Led Training (vILT) series, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be offering a course where attendees can learn more about examination practices and procedural guidance for 35 U.S.C. § 103 obviousness rejections. Part 1 of the course will be held on April 19, 2022 from 9:00 am to 11:00…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "IP Developments in Russia: What You Need to Know" on April 21, 2022 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (ET). Janet Cord of Ladas & Parry LLP, Victoria Friedman of Dennemeyer & Associates S.A., and Mark P. Mathison of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton…
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