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Month: November 2019
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By Michael Borella — Last month the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published an update ("October Update") to its subject matter eligibility guidance. As we noted at that time, the October Update is more evolutionary than revolutionary, and primarily serves to provide clarifications to the more substantive January Guidance. Nonetheless, the USPTO did provide four…
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November 21, 2019 – "Alphabet Soup: A Review and Summary of Post-Grant Practice at the USPTO" (Fitch Even) – 12:00 to 1:00 pm (EST) December 2, 2019 – "Cross-Border Trends, Tactics and Strategic Insights: What European and U.S. Lawyers Should Each Know About Litigating Abroad" (Practising Law Institute) – London
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Fitch Even will be offering a webinar entitled "Alphabet Soup: A Review and Summary of Post-Grant Practice at the USPTO" on November 21, 2019 from 12:00 to 1:00 pm (EST). David A. Gosse of Fitch Even will provide a summary of post-grant procedures and an introduction to when, why, and how each procedure is useful…
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Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be offering a program entitled "Cross-Border Trends, Tactics and Strategic Insights: What European and U.S. Lawyers Should Each Know About Litigating Abroad" on December 2, 2019 in London. The half-day program, which will be webcast, will cover specialized issues that impact litigators in Europe and the U.S., and explore timely…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Left-handedness is a uniquely human trait, with 90% human populations globally being right-handed since the Paleolithic (extending from 3.3 million years ago to the end of the Pleistocene). A feature of motor control, the prevailing theory is that handedness is a consequence of language being "lateralized to the left hemisphere";…
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By Donald Zuhn — USPTO to Offer Seminars on DOCX In a Patent Alert e-mail distributed today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it will be offering several seminars on how to use DOCX for EFS-Web filings and on PAIR. The DOCX Information Sessions will focus on the advantages of filing patent applications…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The BRCA2 gene is one member of a pair of genes that changed the patent landscape several years ago, when the Supreme Court ruled that "mere" isolation was insufficient to render genomic embodiments thereof patent eligible, in Association of Molecular Pathologists v. Myriad Genetics. As understood at the time patents…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — On October 18th, Junior Party (the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna; and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") filed its authorized opposition to Substantive Motion No. 1 from Senior Party the Broad Institute (and its partners as Senior Party, Harvard University and MIT), which asked for judgment in Interference…
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By Aaron Gin — On October 30, 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released a Federal Register Notice requesting comments on issues of artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property, the second such request in the past three months. In a blog post on the USPTO "Director's Forum", USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Deputy Director…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — As reported in John Carrol's EndPoint News early last month, GlobalData has published a list of the Top 20 Pharmaceutical Companies by market cap as of March 31, 2019. Notable advances include Takeda (up 142% based in part on its Shire acquisition, and jumping in the rankings from 23rd to…
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