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Month: August 2022
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By Kevin E. Noonan – On Friday, August 26th, Moderna Tx, Inc. and Moderna US, Inc. filed a complaint for patent infringement in Federal district court for the District of Massachusetts against Pfizer, Inc., BioNTech SE, BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH, and BioNTech US, Inc. (A parallel suit was filed in Germany asserting Moderna's corresponding German patents.) There are…
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By Brian A. Pattengale* and Anthony D. Sabatelli** — Decades after the science-fiction visions of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, artificial intelligence ("AI") is finally moving to the mainstream. Many of us use digital assistants like Apple's Siri or Google's Alexa every day, and we gape, with a mixture…
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By Kevin E. Noonan – On August 16th, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board rescheduled back-to-back oral hearings for interferences between ToolGen Inc. (Senior Party) and Junior Party The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The President and Fellows of Harvard College (collectively, "Broad," Interference No. 106,126) and Junior Party The Regents of the University of…
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August 30, 2022 – "Litigating Inventorship — When and How to Change Named Inventors on an Issued Patent" (IPWatchdog and Ludwig, APC) – 12:00 pm (ET) September 1, 2022 – "Computer-Implemented Inventions in the EPO" – Part I (Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner) -12:00 pm (CT) September 1, 2022 – "Telling Stories to Clients with IP…
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IPWatchdog and Ludwig, APC will be offering a webinar entitled "Litigating Inventorship — When and How to Change Named Inventors on an Issued Patent" on August 30, 2022 at 12:00 pm (ET). Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog, Inc. will moderate a panel consisting of Pattric Rawlins of Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch and Eric Ludwig of…
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Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner will be offering a two-part webinar on "Computer-Implemented Inventions in the EPO" on September 1 and September 29, 2022 at 12:00 pm (CT). In Part I, Daniel Closa from the European Patent Office will explore a problem-solution approach to computer-implemented inventions in the EPO, will discuss pertinent parts of the EPO's…
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IPWatchdog and PatSnap will be offering a webinar entitled "Telling Stories to Clients with IP Intelligence" on September 1, 2022 at 12:00 pm (ET). Chad Gilman of Fish & Richardson, Sam Wiley of PatSnap, and Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog, Inc. will explore the tools and tactics for synthesizing IP, and legal and business intelligence into…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Penguins are unique among bird species, having lost the ability to fly more than 60 million years ago and adopting a "hyperspecialized marine body plan" consistent with their unique habitat in the higher latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere. Key geological events are believed to be in part responsible, with major…
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By Michael Borella — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is at it again, gaslighting the public in its ongoing crusade against patents. While the EFF does perform some commendable work, mostly in the areas of individual privacy rights, its track record on patents amounts to little more than a hit job. In particular, the EFF has…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — For most of the past decade, the Supreme Court has been marking out the metes and bounds of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's execution of the post-grant review provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, particularly with regard to inter partes reviews (see "Oil States Energy Services, LLC. v.…
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