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Month: March 2023
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IPWatchdog and UnitedLex will be offering a webinar entitled "Prep, Prosecution & Profitability: Thoughtful Strategies for Managing to The Bottom Line" on March 14, 2023 at 11:00 am (ET). Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog, Inc. will moderate a panel consisting of Carlo Cotrone of Techtronic Industries (TTI), Andrew Weaver of Polsinelli, and Matthew Joyce of UnitedLex. …
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Patent Information Users Group, Inc. (PIUG) will be offering a webinar on "Best Practices for Searching IP5 Literature" from 10:00 am to 11:00 am (EDT) on March 15, 2023. Kartar Singh Arora of Clarivate will present an overview of differences in patents and procedures used by IP5 patent offices (USPTO, EPO, SIPO, JPO and KIPO)…
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OxViews Limited will be offering a webinar entitled "The Unified Patent Court Is Coming — Benefits and Risks of the New Court System" on March 15, 2023 at 15:00 (GMT). Philipp Rastemborski and Florian Henke of Meissner Bolte will address the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court from a business perspective and will provide…
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be offering part two of its 2023 Women's Entrepreneurship Symposium on "Finding Mentors and Opportunities" from 2:00 pm and 4:35 pm (ET) on March 15, 2023. The event will address the importance of mentors and how building a reliable network can impact growth, opportunities, and success, as well…
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By Donald Zuhn — In a final rule published in the Federal Register (88 Fed. Reg. 12560) last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it will start issuing patents electronically under a new digital USPTO seal and bearing the digital signature of the USPTO Director beginning on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. The…
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By Kevin E. Noonan – The Supreme Court's (re)consideration of the enablement requirement expected in its decision later this year in Amgen v. Sanofi may be the most closely watched patent case since AMP v. Myriad Genetics. But in a decision handed down on Monday, Regents of the University of Minnesota v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., the…
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By Michael Borella — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) organizes its examining corps into technical centers (TCs). Each TC is dedicated to one or more general technical fields. In some cases, one TC may include two or more unrelated fields, while some fields (software, for example) are represented in multiple TCs. Currently there…
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Strafford will be offering a webinar entitled "Patent Year in Review: Key Decisions, Trends, and Strategies — Patent Eligibility, Obviousness, Written Description, Pleading Standards, and More" on March 7, 2023 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST). Thomas L. Irving of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, Sarah Hooson of Merck Sharp & Dohme, Krista Kostiew…
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Daniel Law and Bardehle Pagenberg will be offering a two-part webinar on "How to Litigate Patents before the UPC Compared to German and Brazilian Courts" on March 8, 2023 at 10:00 am (BRT) / 2:00 pm (CET). Stefan Lieck, Anna Giedke, and Ricardo Nunes will provide insights into key aspects of patent litigation in the…
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Strafford will be offering a webinar entitled "Patent Assignments and Priority in an International Context: U.S., Europe, and Asia" on March 9, 2023 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST). Jonathan Bench of Harris Bricken Sliwoski and Austen Zuege of Westman Champlin & Koehler will guide patent counsel on patent assignments and priority in the international…
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