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The Interplay Key Decisions at the Intersection of Antitrust and Life Sciences - June 2024

WilmerHale on 7/3/2024

Court Orders Delisting of Patents from Orange Book and Denies Motion to Dismiss Antitrust Counterclaims for Improper Orange Book Listings. On June 10, Judge Stanley Chesler of the District of New Jersey entered judgment on...more

FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape - January 2024

WilmerHale on 1/31/2024

This marks the first issue of WilmerHale’s FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape, a bulletin that will highlight developments about the licensing, litigation, and regulation of patents that are or are claimed...more

AI-Based Patent Applications: Recent History and the Future

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints on 10/31/2023

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) as a field of technology has correlated with an increase in patent application filings on AI-related inventions over the past two decades. With more filings than ever, businesses...more

Why US Should Help European Efforts to Fix SEP Licensing

WilmerHale on 10/24/2023

The U.S. Patent Office, the National Institute of Standards and the International Trade Administration are all currently seeking input to establish U.S. policy on foreign standard-essential patent licensing regulatory regimes...more

You Received a “Notice of Data Security Incident” from the USPTO—Now What?

Dickinson Wright on 6/16/2023

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued a notice that a data security incident exposed domicile addresses of numerous trademark applicants who filed applications between February 2020 and March...more

2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends: International Design Law: Global Law and Policy

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 3/1/2023

Design protection continues to be a priority for governments around the world. Global design protection is gradually becoming more modern and harmonized. Building on earlier developments, China made progress to implement...more

2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis & Trends

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 2/21/2023

Last year, in our inaugural issue of “The Year in Review,” we reported that since the landmark jury verdict in the IP litigation between Apple and Samsung in 2012, which awarded more than $1B to Apple for infringement of...more

Year in Review: Top Biosimilars-Related Regulatory Developments of 2022

Goodwin on 1/3/2023

As 2022 comes to a close, we review Big Molecule Watch’s top five biosimilar regulatory developments of the year...more

New Year, New Patent Regulations: From DOCX to Unitary Patents

Fox Rothschild LLP on 1/3/2023

A new year brings new intellectual property laws and regulations, and 2023 is no exception. Among the most pressing issues: •The DOCX format filing requirements for new U.S. utility applications are delayed, but are still...more

Influence of Implementability of Prior Art in Determination of Novelty and Inventiveness

Linda Liu & Partners on 10/25/2022

In patent examination, the examiner will cite a prior art document in order to determine whether or not an invention or utility model is novel and inventive. The applicants challenge the implementability of the cited prior...more

Patent Poetry: Is a Design Law Treaty coming?

AEON Law on 10/4/2022

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has announced plans to negotiate a Design Law Treaty (DLT). The goal of the treaty would be to harmonize different national legal systems for protecting industrial...more

2021 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 3/2/2022

This year, we will mark the 10-year anniversary of the first jury verdict in the landmark IP litigation between Apple and Samsung, which resulted in the jury awarding more than $1B to Apple. More than $500M of that award was...more

2022 IP Outlook Report: The Developments Shaping Patent Law

McDermott Will & Emery on 2/18/2022

KEY TAKEAWAYS AND OUTLOOK FOR 2022 - Tracking with this era’s continuation and uncertainty trends―global supply chain disruption, innovation outpacing legislation, the unstoppable internet of [all the] things (IoT)―2022 is...more

Benefits and Considerations for Patent Prosecution under Patent Prosecution Highway in the U.S., Europe, China, and Singapore

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 11/23/2021

Patent Prosecution Highway or PPH is a set of initiatives promulgated by participating patent offices around the world to accelerate patent prosecution in countries of the participating patent offices. PPH allows the...more

American Axle v. Neapco

Ladas & Parry LLP on 2/5/2021

On July 31, 2020, in American Axle v. Neapco, the Federal Circuit split 6-6 on the question of whether to grant en banc review of a panel decision on patent eligibility seen by many as an unwarranted extension of the...more

COVID-19 Patent and Trademark Deadlines Extended

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC on 4/2/2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, patent offices worldwide are taking steps to minimize negative impacts that patent and trademark filers may suffer. ...more

COVID-19 and Intellectual Property

International Lawyers Network on 3/30/2020

Despite the COVID-19 closures and cancellations, some governmental intellectual property offices have not extended deadlines, so parties should remain mindful that protections for individuals and businesses should not be...more

Intellectual Property Extensions Resulting from Coronavirus

International Lawyers Network on 3/27/2020

Currently, the USPTO is not offering extensions to patent and trademark application deadlines. The USPTO is, however, offering fee waivers to those affected by the coronavirus in the following situations....more

Covid-19 IP Update: Intellectual Property Office developments

Hogan Lovells on 3/16/2020

EUIPO - For those with European Union Trademarks (EUTMs), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante, Spain remains open although all staff are now working from home and it has extended all...more

Intellectual Property Bulletin - Winter 2020

Fenwick & West LLP on 1/23/2020

In This Issue - Influencer Marketing: Top Business and Legal Considerations for 2020 - Although influencer marketing is an ever-larger part of marketing budgets, questions have arisen about the longevity of influencers as a...more

The PTAB Goes to Europe: Four Recent Section 101 Decisions Designated as Informative

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 7/29/2019

On July 1, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) designated four of its recent 35 U.S.C. § 101 decisions as informative. Each of these decisions came down after and applied...more

[Event] 11th Pharma & Biotech Patent Litigation - February 26 - 27, 2019 - Radisson Blu Hotel, Amsterdam

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 1/4/2019

The annual gathering exploring the inherently complex and continually contentious pharma and biotech patent litigation - Life Science patent litigation filings are predicted to rise at new levels. Be part of the only event...more

Intellectual Property Bulletin - Fall 2018

Fenwick & West LLP on 10/31/2018

In This Issue - Gender Diversity in Patenting: Current Landscape and Recommendations - The gender gap in patenting is a current challenge that companies face. While this issue seems pervasive, companies and lawyers can...more

U.S. + Germany Patent Update – July 2018

Hogan Lovells on 7/23/2018

The prominent state of patent litigation in the United States and Germany is due not only to the size of its markets, but also to a recent increase in hearings before the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Patent...more

Cyberdyne Bringing HAL Cyborg Exoskeleton to US Market

Knobbe Martens on 6/12/2018

Cyberdyne, a Japan-based robotics technology company, recently announced its collaboration with Brooks Rehabilitation and the Brooks Cybernic Treatment Center to bring its Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL®) exoskeleton to the U.S....more

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