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Intellectual Property Litigation Newsletter | May 2025

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Welcome to the Intellectual Property Litigation Newsletter, our review of decisions and trends in the intellectual property arena. In this edition, we learn that belated statements are not relevant but litigation funding...more

Sunstein LLP

Trade Secret Rights May be Lost Because of A Failure to Review a Competitor’s Prior Art Patent Applications

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A recent decision from a California federal district court should make patent prosecutors and their clients more alert when looking at recent prior art references: they may refer to patent applications filed by competitors...more

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Clearing the Air: Patent Protection Strategies for Carbon Capture Technologies

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Carbon capture technologies generally pertain to the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) by certain materials or systems. Such materials or systems can then process the captured CO2 in various manners, such as through storage at...more

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Is Evidence of Copying Enough to Support a Finding of Nonobviousness? - Intellectual Property News

In a precedential decision that was unsealed last week by the Federal Circuit, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) was told that it erred in not considering evidence of copying when rendering its decision on obviousness...more

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Intellectual Property Considerations and Guidance for Start-Ups

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Intellectual property probably isn’t high on the to-do list for most new nonprofits and business start-ups. There’s plenty enough to do with setting up an organization, paying bills, and serving customers and clients. ...more

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Did Recent Changes in the Patent Laws Turn the Page on the Need for Accurate Laboratory Notebooks?

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With the enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), the U.S. patent system moved to a “first inventor to file” approach for examining all applications having an effective filing date on or after March 16, 2013....more

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