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MBHB Snippets: Review of Developments in Intellectual Property Law - Spring 2013 - Volume 11, Issue 2: Implementing the New Micro Entity Status at the U.S. Patent Office

by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/15/2013

...As part of new rules introduced by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), a new section that defines a “micro entity” was added to Title 35 of the United States Code. ... more

VERONICA GUTIERREZ, ERIN WALKER, and WILLIAM SMITH v WELLS FARGO BANK N.A.

CLASS ACTION FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AFTER BENCH TRIAL AWARDING $203 MILLION TO WELLS FARGO'S CALIFORNIA CUSTOMERS

by Barry Fagan on 5/15/2013

... OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AFTER BENCH TRIAL AWARDING $203 MILLION TO WELLS FARGO'S CALIFORNIA CUSTOMERS. A California judge ordered Wells Fargo to pay California customers $203 after finding that the bank had deliberately manipulated the way it processed transactions in a way that turned one overdraft fee into as many as 10, at $35 a... more

MBHB Snippets: Review of Developments in Intellectual Property Law - Spring 2013 - Volume 11, Issue 2: Comments on New AIA Rules

by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/14/2013

...On March 16, 2013, the final (and most significant) portion of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) took effect, and the United States broke from a first-to-invent regime to a first-inventor-to-file (FITF) ... more

MBHB Snippets: Review of Developments in Intellectual Property Law - Spring 2013 - Volume 11, Issue 2

by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/13/2013

...On March 16, 2013, the final (and most significant) portion of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) took effect, and the United States broke from a first-to-invent regime to a first-inventor-to-file (FITF) ... more

Inovia Releases 2013 Report on Global Patent Trends

by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/9/2013

...in-house support or outsourced annuity payments. Half of respondents cited final implementation of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act as the most important issue/trend of 2013. Other key trends for 2013 included cost... more

Capital Infusion: Private Equity Update - May 2013

by Patton Boggs LLP on 5/8/2013

... - DIGGING DEEPER: A Guide to Health Care Regulatory Due Diligence in Private Equity Deals 1 - Policy Spotlight: Affordable Care Act 6 - Case Spotlight: Best Practices in Down-Round Financings & Subsequent Exits 10 - Dealmaker’s Corner 15 - Deal Spotlight 17 - Tax consequences:... more

America Invents Act Makes Significant Changes to U.S. Patent Law

by Sedgwick LLP on 5/7/2013

...rked the beginning of “first-inventor-to-file,” the backbone of the new U.S. patent system under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). The AIA is the most comprehensive review of American patent law since the 1950s, and was... more

IP Update, Vol. 16, No. 4, April 2013

by McDermott Will & Emery on 4/30/2013

... May Exist When There Is Neither Common Ownership nor Common Inventorship - Addressing an obviousness-type double patenting rejection, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board), finding that obviousness-type double... more

Edgar Allen Poe And Innovation In The Compliance Function

by Thomas Fox on 4/19/2013

...217;s role in the creation of the detective story is reflected in the Edgar Awards, given annually by the Mystery Writers of America. For both myself and the many worldwide fans of Sherlock Holmes, we owe a tip of the hat to Poe for inventing the genre.... more

Therasense Revisited: In re Rosuvastatin Calcium Patent Litigation

by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 4/18/2013

... the reissue context in Rosuvastatin Calcium Patent Litigation and questions whether a change to the relevant statute in the America Invents Act will have meaningful impact on the inequitable conduct defense. Therasense Revisited: In re... more

Doing Business in the U.S.

by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 4/17/2013

... Preface - Chapter 1 Choice Of A Business Entity - Chapter 2 Introduction To Federal Securities Laws - Chapter 3 From Let’S Go Shopping To Closing: U.S. M&A Process - Chapter 4 Employment Considerations - Chapter 5 Equity Incentives For U.S. Employees - Chapter 6 U.S. Immigration Law - Chapter 7 U.S.... more

After Myriad Oral Argument, Supreme Court Set to Decide Patentability of Isolated Human DNA Molecules

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 4/16/2013

...able.” The challengers’ position is supported, in whole or in part, by 24 amicus briefs, including briefs by the American Medical Association, AARP, and the American Intellectual Property Association. Myriad contends that the claimed isolated DN... more

Myriad Genetic Database Under Siege

by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 4/15/2013

... Supreme Court set to consider the patent-eligibility of claims to isolated human DNA in AMP v. Myriad Genetics this morning, another aspect of Myriad’s control over BRCA testing technology is being contested. As reported on Friday by Gina Kolata in the New York Times ("DNA Project Aims to Make Public a Company's Data in Cancer... more

AIA Impact on Start Up Capital [Video]

by Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 4/15/2013

...An important consideration following the implementation of the America Invents Act is how will the law will affect capital raises for critical start-ups and emerging companies. In this video, Rob... more

A Response to Dr. Mason's "Rebuttal" to Criticisms of His Genomics Medicine Article

by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 4/12/2013

... gene patenting debate has appeared, to experienced patent practitioners, to be akin to a conversation with Kevin Kline's character in A Fish Called Wanda, or perhaps a passage from P.G. Wodehouse's The Luck of the Bodkins. In short, it has been the tale of doctors, scientists, and legal academics interpreting claims to isolated DNA in ways both... more

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