Kilpatrick Townsend Partners Andrew Serafini and Patrick Njeim recently joined other thought leaders as featured speakers for the IP Symposium: Current Perspectives Around the Convergence of Life Sciences and IT. The event...more
The Life Science Washington Institute recently celebrated World IP Day 2022 by sponsoring the “IP Symposium: Current Perspectives Around the Convergence of Life Sciences and IT.” Kilpatrick Townsend partners Andrew Serafini...more
Inventions with numerical ranges are valuable across different technologies. Obtaining claims with numerical ranges provide competitive advantages to patent owners. Frequently, a claimed range in an application may need to be...more
“A written description . . . requires a statement of an invention, not an invitation to go on a hunting expedition to patch together after the fact a synthetic definition of an invention.” For claims reciting ranges,...more
Intellectual Property counsel often face the dilemma of when to file a patent application: as soon as possible, or wait and gather more support? Filing an application “early” helps to avoid anticipatory prior art but if the...more
Section 12004 of the CARES Act allows the director of the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) (under certain conditions) to provide temporary relief from certain USPTO filing deadlines and fees....more
In connection with the White House Cancer Moonshot Initiative, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) announced on June 29 that it is “Teaming Up to Cure Cancer” by establishing a new accelerated process for...more