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Month: April 2022
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Mathys & Squire will be offering a "UPC Masterclass: Participation Decision Making with Example Case Studies" on April 21, 2021 at 6:00 pm (London time). Chris Hamer and Andreas Wietzke of Mathys & Squire LLP will discuss all relevant aspects including the pros and cons of the UPC from the perspective of patent applicants, in-house…
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By Donald Zuhn –- Earlier today, the Federal Circuit reversed the Final Written Decision, and reconsideration of that decision, by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which determined that claims 1-24 of U.S. Patent No. 8,952,138 were unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). The '138 patent is directed to methods…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — U.S. patent law grants patent owners the right to grant licenses to their patents in analogy to landlords granting rents to real property as a license to use without obtaining ownership. 35 U.S.C. §§ 261-262. But the complexities that can ensue, both in what is licensed and when it is…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — On March 16th, Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, Broad) filed its Opposition to Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 filed on December 3rd by Senior Party Sigma-Aldrich. To recap, Sigma-Aldrich's Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 asked the Board to deny Broad benefit of its U.S. Provisional…
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By Donald Zuhn — A General License issued on March 2, 2022 by the Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the U.S. Department of the Treasury authorizes "U.S. persons . . . to pay taxes, fees, or import duties, and purchase or receive permits, licenses, registrations, or certifications" for a limited time when such…
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April 12, 2022 – "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" (Black Hills IP) – 12:00 pm (CT) April 26-27, 2022 – Paragraph IV Disputes Conference (American Conference Institute) – New York City
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As part of its Data Science Webinar Series, Black Hills IP will be offering a webinar entitled "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" on April 12, 2022 at 12:00 pm (CT). Manjeet Rege, Director of the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence at the University of St. Thomas, and Thomas Marlow, Chief Technology Officer, Black Hills IP will…
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By Donald Zuhn — USPTO Launches New Patent Search Tool In a press release issued earlier this year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the launch of a new Patent Public Search tool. The Office notes that the new patent search tool, which is based on the Patents End-to-End (PE2E) search tool that USPTO…
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As part of its series offering entrepreneurs and businesses an overview on how to protect their intellectual property in Mexico, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be holding a webinar entitled "Diversifying your market or supply chain: Patent protection" on April 6, 2022, and a webinar entitled "Diversifying your market or supply chain: Enforcement"…
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IPWatchdog and Volpe Koenig will be offering a webinar entitled "Jurassic Patents: Patenting in the Life Sciences and Protecting Innovation" on April 7, 2022 at 12:00 pm (ET). Douglas J. Bucklin of Volpe Koenig; Rachel Elsby of Akin Gump; Kae Gruner of Acella Pharmaceuticals, LLC; and John White of the PCT Learning Center will explore…
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