Earlier this year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office announced the formal launch of the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) system, a global classification system for patent documents. The...more
6/10/2013
- Coopertive Patent Classification System Patents USPTO WIPO
In March, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced that International patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) increased by 6.6% in 2012. WIPO noted that of the 194,000 PCT...more
5/17/2013
- Patent Applications WIPO
On March 28, the Federal Circuit in Rubin v. General Hospital Corp. affirmed judgment by the District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissing the suit brought by Drs. Berish Rubin and Sylvia Anderson against The...more
5/8/2013
- Biotechnology Human Genes Inventors Patents
Earlier this month, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), a trade association representing the U.S. venture capital industry, released the results of its MoneyTree Report on venture funding for the first quarter of...more
5/1/2013
- Biotechnology Venture Capital Venture Funding
Yesterday, in Biogen Idec, Inc. v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC, the Federal Circuit affirmed the determination by the District Court for the Southern District of California that the claim term "anti-CD20 antibody" as used in U.S....more
4/18/2013
- Biogen Idec GlaxoSmithKline Patents
Yesterday, we posted a response from Dr. Chris Mason of Cornell University to a recent Patent Docs post and an article posted by Dr. Chris Holman on Holman's Biotech IP Blog. Dr. Mason co-authored an article in the current...more
4/12/2013
- Claim Construction DNA Gene Patenting Human Genes Patents
Last week, we reported on an article in the current issue of Genome Medicine which contends that due to the non-specificity of sequence uniqueness across the genome and the broad scope of claims to nucleotide sequences, the...more
4/9/2013
- DNA Gene Patenting Genome Project Patents
In the past week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published two Federal Register notices to implement technical corrections to the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. On Monday, the Office issued an interim final rule...more
4/4/2013
- Amended Legislation Patent Term Adjustment Patents USPTO
In an article published in the current issue of Genome Medicine, Jeffrey Rosenfeld of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey and Christopher Mason of Cornell University contend that due to the non-specificity of...more
4/3/2013
- DNA Human Genes Myriad Patent-Eligible Subject Matter Patents
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News has compiled a list of the top 20 best-selling prescription drugs worldwide for 2012. GEN's list, which the journal released on March 5 (see "Top 20 Best-Selling Drugs of 2012"), was...more
3/13/2013
- Pharmaceutical Prescription Drugs Sales
