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- Reasons for the PTAB’s Priority Determination in Broad’s Favor (Perhaps)
- Mexico Publishes Amendments to Intellectual Property Law
- PTAB (Again) Awards Priority of Invention to Broad in Interference No. 106,115
- Argentina Repeals Pharmaceutical Patent Examination Guidelines
- USPTO Moves to Protect Design Rights for Digital Innovations
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Category: Patent Office Rules & Procedures
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By Donald Zuhn — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today released a summary of the feedback it received in response to its April 30, 2008 webcast concerning user access to the Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) system. During the webcast, Commissioner for Patents John Doll and Deputy Chief Information Officer Deborah…
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By Donald Zuhn — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced today that it was initiating a pilot program to promote worksharing between the USPTO, European Patent Office, and Japan Patent Office. The pilot program, dubbed "Triway," was first proposed by the USPTO at the 2005 Trilateral Pre-conference; the Trilateral Offices agreed at…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last month, we reported on a presentation that Dr. George Elliott, Group 1600 Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, gave at this year’s BIO International Convention (see "Docs at BIO: Representatives from JPO, EPO, SIPO, and USPTO Discuss Recent Developments in Japan, Europe, China, and the U.S."…
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By Christopher P. Singer — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office sent out an e-Commerce update on June 26, 2008 that provided information regarding the release of enhancements to Private PAIR and Public PAIR, the indexing of request documents for the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH), and access to design patent applications using the…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — As reported by Patent Docs earlier this week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office took the podium at BIO 2008 last week in San Diego, in the person of Dr. George Elliott, a Director in Group 1600. Like his boss, John Doll, Director Elliott is a personable and…
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By Christopher P. Singer — In April, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it had updated the training materials to be used by examiners in the examination of patent applications for compliance with the written description requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph. The revised training materials supersede and replace…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last Thursday, a diverse panel comprising both in-house and outside counsel and both corporate and venture capital interests participated in a breakout session at the BIO International Convention to discuss IP challenges and strategies for biotech and pharma companies as a result of pending USPTO rules changes and possible…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last Wednesday, a panel of representatives from the Japanese Patent Office (JPO), European Patent Office (EPO), Chinese Patent Office (SIPO), and U.S. Patent Office (USPTO) participated in a breakout session at the BIO International Convention to update attendees on recent developments regarding the patent law, rules, and procedures in…
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By Christopher P. Singer — As we reported on Tuesday, the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) has published an amended fee schedule for application filings that is due to take effect on July 1, 2008. In a Federal Register Notice that was published on Wednesday, June 18, 2008, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — As reported by Patent Docs last week, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Jon Dudas (at right) responded to Congressman Howard Berman’s (D-CA) April letter posing a number of questions raised by Director Dudas’ February testimony before the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property. Last…
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