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Category: Patent Office Rules & Procedures
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By George "Trey" Lyons, III, Eric Moran, Nicole Grimm, and Brett Scott — Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released its new guidelines on how it will examine federal trademark applications for cannabidiol (CBD) products in light of the 2018 Farm Bill. While these new guidelines are encouraging for canna-businesses that manufacture, market,…
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By Donald Zuhn — In a notice published in the Federal Register (84 Fed. Reg. 17809) on April 26, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office invited the public to provide comments and attend public hearings on the participation of women, minorities, and veterans in entrepreneurship activities and the patent system. The Office intends to use…
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By Donald Zuhn –- USPTO Implements New System for Ordering Certified Copies of Documents In a notice posted on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website last month, the Office announced that it was implementing the Certified Copy Center (CCC) Storefront, a new web system for ordering certified copies of patent and trademark documents. The…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today announced a new pilot program relating to motions to amend in post-grant review proceedings (post-grant review, inter partes review, and covered business methods reviews) under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. As set forth in the announcement: The pilot program provides patent owners with…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last month, in Federal Register notices published on the same day (84 Fed. Reg. 411), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was extending the Cancer Immunotherapy Pilot Program, but that it had decided to discontinue the Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program. According to the Office's notices, the Cancer…
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By Donald Zuhn — In a Patent Alert e-mail distributed earlier today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that "[d]ue to recent technical issues, the PKI authentication and migration deadlines associated with the authentication change for EFS-Web and Private PAIR are no longer applicable until further notice." The Office had announced in late December that the…
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By Donald Zuhn –- Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released its FY 2018 Performance and Accountability Report. In describing the USPTO's strategic and performance-planning framework, the 2018 Report notes that the Office issued its 2014-2018 Strategic Plan in 2014, and that the Plan "demonstrates the progress made to date by building on…
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By Donald Zuhn –- Last week, in Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Iancu, the Federal Circuit reversed the entry of summary judgment by the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which concluded that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had not erred in calculating the Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) for U.S. Patent No. 8,747,897. …
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By Michael Borella — On January 7, 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published updated examination guidance, instructing the examining corps and the PTAB how they should apply 35 U.S.C. § 101. On the same day, the USPTO also published the latest in its series of examples of how this application of the §…
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By Michael Borella — On January 7, 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published updated examination guidance, instructing the examining corps and the PTAB how they should apply 35 U.S.C. § 101. On the same day, the USPTO also published the latest in its series of examples of how this application of the §…
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