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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Patent Offices and Federal Courts -- UPDATED

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 3/17/2020

On Wednesday, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom declared that the COVID-19 outbreak "can be characterized as a pandemic," cautioning that the WHO has "rung the alarm bell loud and clear." At the time...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

Strong Support for Sequenom’s Petition for Rehearing En Banc

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 9/10/2015

In Ariosa Diagnostics Inc. v. Sequenom Inc., 788 F.3d 1371 (Fed. Cir. 2015), a Federal Circuit panel held that Sequenom Inc.’s prenatal diagnosis patent claims patent ineligible subject matter under the two-step test of Mayo...more

Statute Permits Domestic Discovery for Foreign Opposition Proceedings - Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. v. FibroGen, Inc.

McDermott Will & Emery on 9/1/2015

With ample citation to Supreme Court precedent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the use of 28 U.S.C. § 1782 to conduct domestic discovery in aid of foreign opposition proceedings at the European and...more

IP Newsletter - July 2015

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 7/8/2015

In This Issue: - En Banc Federal Circuit Abandons “Strong” Presumption That a Limitation Is Not Subject to 35 U.S.C. § 112, Paragraph 6 - Supreme Court Rejects Belief of Invalidity Defense for Inducement in...more

A Brief History of the Patent Law of the United States

Ladas & Parry LLP on 5/27/2014

Public perception of the patent system has swung widely over the years from highs, such as those in the late nineteenth century when Mark Twain could write “a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a...more

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