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Month: October 2015
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The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) will be offering a webinar entitled "Protecting Privilege: Patent Agents within the Bar and Attorneys Beyond the Border" on November 12, 2015 from 12:30 – 2:00 pm (Eastern). Jeffrey I. D. Lewis of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, LLP; Angela Sebor of GlobeImmune, Inc.; and Anthony C.…
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be hosting patent quality roadshows on November 4, 2015 at the Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Auburn Hills, MI and on November 6, 2015 at the North Carolina Central University School of Law in Durham, NC. During the full-day roadshows, patent quality experts and…
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D Young & Co will be offering its next European biotech patent law update on November 4, 2015. The 45-minute webinar will be offered at three times: 4:00 am, 7:00 am, and 12:00 pm (ET). D Young & Co European Patent Attorneys Simon O'Brien and Catherine Mallalieu will provide an essential update and live Q&A…
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By Donald Zuhn — In a notice published earlier this week in the Federal Register (80 Fed. Reg. 65649), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a final rule revising the rules of practice to permit applicants to authorize the USPTO to give certain foreign IP offices access to all or part of the file…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Admittedly, only on its Op-Ed page. But last Saturday Joe Nocera wrote a remarkably sane and reasoned column, entitled "The Patent Troll Smokescreen," pointing out that "big companies with large lobbying budgets" are using the patent troll meme to change patent law in their favor (but in ways that will…
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By Andrew Williams — It is well accepted that in order to establish that a patent is entitled to claim priority to a previously filed provisional application, it must be shown that the claims of the patent have written description support in the provisional. Indeed, this is what 35 U.S.C. § 119(e)(1) requires: An application…
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Ex parte Nathan Victor Bak, Elizabeth Baruka Silberg, Yelena Bayeva, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, And Alexis Hope Bruemmer By Joseph Herndon — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has likely seen an increase in the number of appealed rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 101 due to the Supreme Court's decision…
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By Donald Zuhn –- Last week, Appellee Natera, Inc. filed its response to the petition for rehearing en banc filed by Appellants Sequenom, Inc. and Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, LLC in August (see "Sequenom Requests Rehearing En Banc") (a summary of the response filed by Appellee Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. can be found here). In…
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October 29, 2015 – "Provisional Patent Applications: Preserving IP Rights — Assessing Whether to Use and Strategies to Leverage Provisional Applications Under the First-to-File System" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST) October 29, 2015 – "Patent Prosecution After Akamai: Exploring the Contours of 'Control and Direction'" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 2:00 to 3:00…
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Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Provisional Patent Applications: Preserving IP Rights — Assessing Whether to Use and Strategies to Leverage Provisional Applications Under the First-to-File System" on October 29, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST). Dale S. Lazar and Timothy W. Lohse of DLA Piper LLP (US) will discuss provisional patent applications,…
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