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Month: July 2021
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The Federal Circuit, and the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals before it, generally reviewed decisions by the Patent and Trademark Office under the same standard applied to district court decisions, whether the factual basis for the decision was "clearly erroneous" (questions of law were, and are, decided de novo),…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Recently, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board denied two requests by Junior Party University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (hereinafter, "CVC") in Interference No. 106,115. In the first, CVC asked a conference call to discuss its renewed request for leave to file a motion against Senior…
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By Michael Borella — Sensormatic asserted U.S. Patents 7,730,534, 7,936,370, 7,954,129, 8,208,019, and 8,610,772 against Wyze in the District of Delaware, alleging infringement. Wyze moved the District Court to dismiss under Rule 12(c), on the grounds that the claims are directed to ineligible subject matter. The motion was granted. Sensormatic appealed. In Alice v. CLS Bank,…
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Pfizer and BioNTech Agree to Vaccine Technology Transfer with South Africa's Biovac Institute By Kevin E. Noonan — As reported by Reuters* on Wednesday (see "South African firm to help make Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine"), Pfizer and BioNTech, manufacturers and developers of an mRNA-based vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, have agreed to help the South African drug maker…
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July 27-28, 2021 – Practitioners' Think Tank on ITC Litigation and Enforcement conference (American Conference Institute) July 28, 2021 – Trade Secrets: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure (Biotechnology Innovation Organization IP Counsels Committee) – 1:00 pm (EDT) July 28-29, 2021 – Women Leaders in Life Sciences Law conference (American Conference…
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The Biotechnology Innovation Organization IP Counsels Committee will be offering the next installment in its webinar series on July 28, 2021 at 1:00 pm (EDT). In the webinar, entitled "Trade Secrets: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure," Christopher P. Borello of Venable LLP will moderate a panel consisting of Tashica Amirgholizadeh of…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Cephalopods are fascinating creatures, and their primary living representative — the octopus — has recently been the subject of the Academy Award winning documentary "My Octopus Teacher." They are clearly intelligent (as set forth in Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness), but…
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American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its 37th Annual FDA Boot Camp conference on September 29-30, 2021 as a VIRTUAL conference. The conference will provide attendees with presentations on these topics: • The organization, jurisdiction, functions, and operations of FDA• The essentials of the approval process for drugs and biologics• The role of the…
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By Donald Zuhn — Earlier this month, the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) published their annual list of the top 100 worldwide universities that received the most U.S. utility patents during the 2020 calendar year. The NAI is a member organization comprising U.S. and international universities, and governmental…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) has been the subject of many genetic studies, particularly since the dawning of the age of Whole Genome Sequencing in the late 20th Century. These studies have elucidated some interesting facts about "man's best friend," some of which have been discussed here (see "The…
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