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Administrative Procedure Amended Rules

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New Retirement Plan Hardship Distribution Rules: What You Need to Know

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The IRS recently amended the rules applicable to hardship distributions from 401(k) and 403(b) plans. The new hardship distribution regulation relaxes some of the restrictions on the availability of hardship distributions...more

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Updated Canadian Manual of Patent Office Practice explains the “Due Care” standard and more

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On October 30, 2019, amendments to the CanadianPatent Act and Patent Rules will come into force. The amendments, as reviewed in detail in our previous article, are largely geared to implementing the Patent Law Treaty....more

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Recent Development on Patent Eligibility of Method of Treatment Claims

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published a new revision to the Ninth Edition of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) (Revision 08.2017). This revision added a number of chapters...more

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USPTO Invites Suggestions for PTAB Procedural Reform Initiative

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The Patent Office has announced an initiative to make procedural reforms in an effort to improve PTAB trial proceedings, particularly inter partes review proceedings...more

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