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Month: May 2020
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McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar entitled "Four Key Points for Evaluating and Protecting Your Canna-IP: What Should You Be Doing, Now" on May 19, 2020 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT). In this presentation, MBHB attorneys Nicole E. Grimm, George T. "Trey" Lyons III, and Brett W.…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Alice and Mayo at Trial: Section 101 Litigation After Berkheimer" on May 21, 2020 at 2:00 pm (EDT). Jay Heidrick of Polsinelli, Kfir Levy of Mayer Brown LLP, and Ellisen Turner of Kirkland & Ellis, LLP will focus on litigation strategy now that…
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The American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Intellectual Property Law will be offering a live webinar entitled "Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: Protecting Trade Secrets During and in the Aftermath of COVID-19" on May 19, 2020. Nicole Dominique Galli of the Law Offices of N D Galli LLC will moderate a discussion that…
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The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will be offering a remote program entitled "Critical Developments in the West" on May 19, 2020 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (EST). Penny Gilbert of Powell Gilbert LLP will moderate a panel consisting of Thierry Calame of Lenz & Staehelin, Klaus Haft of Hoyng Rokh Monegier LLP, Otto…
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J A Kemp will be offering a webinar entitled "Sufficiency at the EPO" on May 21, 2020 from 16:30 to 17:30 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Sarah Roques and Stuart Raynor of J A Kemp will consider the law surrounding sufficiency in particular in relation to the biotechnology and chemical fields, and also consider strategies…
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IPBC Talking Heads and iam will be offering a free webinar entitled "Identifying the new normal: what past downturns tell us about how the IP future will evolve" on May 20, 2020 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (EDT). In IP terms, the COVID-19 crisis builds on two prior economic shocks: the bursting of the…
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Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner will be offering a webinar entitled "Patenting Vaccines: A Look Back and the Road Ahead" on May 21, 2020 starting at 11:00 am (CT). Warren D. Woessner, Janet E. Embretson, Monique Perdok and Robin A. Chadwick of Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner will review patenting opportunities and obstacles presented by the massive…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — For several years, Sigma Aldrich has been prosecuting several applications (including USSNs 15/188,911; 15/188,924; and 15/456,204) claiming CRISPR technology that (it alleged) would be deserving of an interference with University of California's U.S. Application Nos. 15/9547,718 and 15/981,809, and reserving the right to supplement its request to include other patents…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The 2019 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy provides a list of such markets (the NML), of both physical and virtual (online) varieties. These include: Online markets: 1337x, 1Fischier, Amazon Foreign Domains, BestBuyIPTV, Bukalapak, Carousell, Chomikuj, Cimaclub, DHGate, DYTT8, Flokinet, FMovies, Hosting Concepts B.V., MP3Juices, MPGH, NewAlbumReleases, PHIMMOI,…
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By Donald Zuhn –- Yesterday, in Idorsia Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. v. Iancu, the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granting summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, finding that the District Court had correctly concluded that the Office properly calculated the Patent…
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