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Category: Patent Office Rules & Procedures
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By Donald Zuhn — Plaintiff-appellee Dr. Triantafyllos Tafas was not alone yesterday in filing a petition for a panel rehearing or rehearing en banc of the March 20 decision in Tafas v. Doll (see Patent Docs report). Also seeking a rehearing of the Federal Circuit's decision in Tafas were plaintiffs-appellees SmithKline Beecham Corp., SmithKline…
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By Donald Zuhn — Earlier today, counsel for Dr. Triantafyllos Tafas filed a petition for a panel rehearing or rehearing en banc of the decision issued by the Federal Circuit in Tafas v. Doll. In that decision, issued on March 20, a split panel determined that Rules 75, 78, 114, and 265 are procedural,…
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By Christopher P. Singer — In a notice posted on June 3, 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the launch of an on-line system that will allow registered practitioners to update their official address of record with the Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED) electronically, without the need to submit paper forms. …
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By Christopher P. Singer — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has posted on the top page of the EFS-Web portal site an advisory that the system will be unavailable because of system maintenance. According to the advisory, the maintenance is scheduled to begin at midnight and end at 4 a.m. on Sunday, May…
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By Donald Zuhn — In a Breakout Session entitled "The Narrowing Scope of Biotech Patent Claims: What Does It Mean for the Industry?" at last week's BIO International Convention, a panel consisting of Anne Dollard, the Deputy General Counsel and Chief Patent Counsel for Takeda San Francisco; Thomas Kim, Senior Director of Intellectual Property…
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By Donald Zuhn — In a Wednesday Super Session entitled "A Model Patent Office for the Future — Promoting and Protecting Investments in Innovation," a panel consisting of Sherry Knowles, Vice President of Corporate Intellectual Property at GlaxoSmithKline Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.; Q. Todd Dickinson, Executive Director for the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA); John…
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By Christopher P. Singer — As we previously reported by Patent Docs, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office began a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program with the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) on April 27, 2009 which will last for two years. The USPTO issued another press release on April 20, 2009,…
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By Christopher P. Singer — In a Notice, dated April 13, 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it will continue the existing Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program with the Intellectual Property Office of Australia (IP Australia) for an unspecified period of time in order to gather more information and assess…
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By Christopher P. Singer — This past week, the Electronic Business Center (EBC) posted two notices on its PAIR and EFS-Web systems. In the notice posted on the opening page of EFS-Web, the Patent Office announced that it is making a minor change to the document description identification of a letter submitted with an…
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By Christopher P. Singer — On March 24, 2009, the Senate unanimously confirmed Gary Locke (at right) as the 36th Secretary of Commerce. While Secretary Locke obviously has a number of critical economic issues that require his immediate attention, the Department of Commerce also oversees the expansion of the country's broadband infrastructure (including the…
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