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Month: October 2015
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Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Leveraging Experts for USPTO Prosecution and PTAB — Developing Strong Patentability Records to Strengthen Claims Against IPR and PGR Challenges" on November 12, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST). Thomas L. Irving of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner; Jonathan R.K. Stroud, Chief Patent Counsel, Unified Patents;…
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Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Objective Evidence in IPRs: Demonstrating Sufficient Nexus — Linking Evidence and Merits of Claimed Invention, Leveraging Prosecution Declarations" on November 5, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST). Michael J. Flibbert and Thomas L. Irving of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner will provide guidance to patent counsel…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Patent Prosecution After Akamai: Exploring the Contours of 'Control and Direction'" on October 29, 2015 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET). Stephen Durant of Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner; Ken Hobday, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Fiserv; and Michelle Holoubek of Sterne Kessler…
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By Donald Zuhn — On Monday, Appellee Ariosa Diagnostics, 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"). In its response, Ariosa argues that in affirming a decision by the District Court for…
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By Donald Zuhn –- In a Federal Register notice published earlier this month (80 Fed. Reg. 60367), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced a change in practice for the correction of errors in foreign priority claims. Under the change in practice, applicants wishing to correct errors in a foreign priority claim after the time…
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By Andrew Williams — On October 19, 2015, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in two related cases: Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc. (Supreme Court docket number 14-1513) and Stryker Corp. v. Zimmer, Inc. (Supreme Court docket number 14-1520). The issue on appeal in the Halo case was limited to Question 1 presented in…
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By Sherri Oslick — About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Mylan Pharma Acquisition Ltd. et al. v Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC1:15-cv-06700; filed July 30, 2015 in the Northern District of Illinois • Plaintiffs: Mylan Pharma Acquisition Ltd.; Mylan Teoranta; Mylan Institutional LLC• Defendant: Fresenius…
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October 20, 2015 – "Trust Everybody, but Cut the Cards" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT) October 20, 2015 – "Will My Patent Make Cents? How Courts and the USPTO Affect Patent Portfolio Value" (American Bar Association (ABA) Center for Professional Development and Section of Intellectual Property Law)…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The Federal Circuit today denied the petitions for rehearing by the panel and rehearing by the en banc Court filed by both parties in Amgen v. Sandoz. Amgen had petitioned for rehearing on the panel's decision that the District Court correctly determined that the provisions of the BPCIA requiring disclosure…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The diplomats negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have done the seemingly impossible: they have kept the details of the draft agreement secret from the press and public in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Chile, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand, and Brunei Darussalam (as well as…
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