Patent Office Litigation Update: Patent Zombies
Goldstein: Expect More Litigation in Wake of Myriad Gene Patent Decision
Patent Series: Protecting inventions
Instapundit: America's IP Laws Need to be "Pruned Back"
Are Human Genes Patentable? Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Myriad Case
AIA Impact on Start Up Capital
Can You Patent Human Genes? ACLU Says No
AIA Impact on University Innovation and Tech Transfer
Yours, Mine and Ours (not yet!): An Update on the Patentability of Human Genes -
Oral Arguments Before the USPTO Patent Trial & Appeal Board
Patent Office Litigation Update: Impact on Timing
The Perfect Patent Office Litigator
Patent Office Litigation Update: Lessons Learned from Contested Proceedings at the USPTO
PTAB Judges and Hearings at the USPTO Satellite Offices
Patent Office Litigation Update: Stays at the U.S. District Court
Yours, Mine and Ours (not yet!): An Update on the Patentability of Human Genes
The Decision Maker's Guide to Contested Proceedings Under the American Invents Act
Will the SHIELD Act Accomplish Its Goal of Effectively Combatting Patent Trolls?
Patent Office Litigation Update: Recommendations Following First Five IPR Trials Instituted
Prior Art Challenges After First-Inventor-to-File
In an example of judicial reasoning rolling downhill, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has struck down claims directed to a computer-implemented business method as failing to meet...more
On June 11, 2013, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued the first final written decision in one of the new proceedings created by the America Invents Act...more
The first-to-file provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) took effect on March 16, 2013. The predominant view among patent practitioners is that applicants should in general keep their pre-AIA patent...more
In its first “final” decision under the America Invents Act (AIA), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has invalidated and cancelled all five challenged claims of U.S....more
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office recently issued its first decision under the America Invents Act’s new system for reviewing the validity of patents. See SAP America, Inc. v. Versata Dev. Group, Inc., Case CBM2012-00001...more
In this issue: - Best Patent Practices Under the America Invents Act - CMS Issues Final Rule for Implementing Sunshine Act - New IP Litigation Team a Boon for Firm's Life Sciences and Technology Clients -...more
It has been less than three months since the remaining provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) took effect, and just short of five months since the AIA Technical Corrections Act was enacted to "correct and...more
The following chart reflects a stratified list of recommendations that university personnel should consider in view of the new U.S. patent system, i.e., the America Invents Act (AIA), which is intended to align the current...more
While much attention has been given to the recent, significant changes in U.S. patent law arising from the America Invents Act (“AIA”), lesser attention has been given to patent law changes brought about by further...more
In This Issue: - Here Come the Feds -- What President Obama’s second term means for the tech industry - Log In: ...Feds cast an eye on social media - Focus: ...3-D’s IP dimension -...more
While U.S. patent practitioners have been focusing on the changes to U.S. patent law embodied in the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), Congress has taken additional steps to harmonize and streamline patent application...more
Enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act in 2011 focused the patenting community on the changes of U.S. patent law from "first to invent" under the 1952 Patent Act to "first inventor to file" under the AIA as the...more
In This Issue: - Can Experts Testify as to the Ethics or State of Mind of Corporate Defendants? - Patent Reform for Biotech Companies - United States v. Caronia and its Implications for Off-Label...more
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. As a subset of small entity status, micro entity...more
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) regime. Of...more
In This Issue: Comments on New AIA Rules; Implementing the New Micro Entity Status at the U.S. Patent Office; Obama Administration Focuses on Chinese Trade Secret Misappropriation; and Tiffany & Co. v. Costco Wholesale...more
March 16, 2013, marked 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...more
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, Robert Greene Sterne, a founding...more
On April 1, 2013, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published interim final rules revising several patent term adjustment (PTA) provisions in view of the AIA Technical Corrections Act of January 14, 2013. 78 Fed....more
On April 1, 2013, the USPTO published an interim final rule implementing various provisions of the AIA Technical Corrections Act (“AIA TCA”). This new legislation and its implementing regulations significantly alter how...more
Sure, First-to-File is new here, but the rest of the world has been dealing with it forever and the sky has not fallen on technological innovation elsewhere. And it won’t fall on it here either under a First-to-File system....more
With the new First-Inventor-to-File system, the America Invents Act of 2012 has ushered in a particular set of challenges for universities and technology centers. Historically, these institutions wait to file patent...more
When should a patent application be filed? Should it be filed prior to submission of a manuscript or abstract for peer-review or just prior to publication? In highly competitive technologies, it is prudent to file as soon as...more
On April 1, 2013, the USPTO published an “interim final rule” relating to Patent Term Adjustment (PTA), to implement changes to the PTA statute embodied in the AIA Technical Corrections Act. Although the rule changes have an...more
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