Supreme Court Hears Myriad Case: The Myth You Can Patent Human Genes from hallingblog.com The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics No. 11-725 case that revolves around the myth that you can patent a person’s genes. Typical of the ...
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Responding to USPTO's new Maintenance Fee Regime from www.patentlyo.com On March 19, 2013, the USPTO's new fees became effective. The most notable changes were the maintenance fees due at three intervals: 3½, 7½ and 11½ years after patent issuance. At each interval, the ...
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CLS Bank v. Alice: 35 USC 101 Presumption of Validity from hallingblog.com The en banc rehearing of this case is considering whether the presumption of validity applies to under 35 USC 101. The statute involved in this question is 35 USC § 282 which states: (a) In General ...
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Did the Earth move for you too? from ipwars.com Most of the substantive Raising the Bar amendments came into force today. Amongst other things, schedule 1 of the Raising the Bar Act introduced a raft of changes designed to raise the threshold of patentability ...
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Recent Patent Assignments from www.patentlyo.com Recent Patent Deals from the USPTO Assignment Records: Ericsson transferred over 820 patent families to the publicly traded company known as Unwired Planet, Inc. (UPIP). Ericsson will receive a percentage of any revenue generated from ...
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Patent Monetization Entities Filed 58% of Lawsuits in 2012 from www.ipwatchdog.com Our analysis of the full set of cases across the chosen years confirms what we saw in the smaller sample: patent infringement litigation by patent monetization entities has risen dramatically over a remarkably short period ...
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Provisional Patent Applications from inventivestep.net A provisional patent application is a patent application that may be filed at the PTO that can be used to establish a filing date or date of invention. The application expires 12 months from its ...
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The Novartis Decision: A Tale Of Developing Countries, IP, And The Role Of The Judiciary from www.ip-watch.org Ahmed Abdel Latif says of the Novartis case: The ruling is also a revealing tale about the changing role of developing countries in the global intellectual property landscape and the growing influence of the judiciary ...
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Forward Looking Personalized Medicine, Patent Law and Science from www.ipwatchdog.com Social policy concerns have influenced the AMP v Myriad debate. The Supreme Court, to the extent it must make a ruling for our times, informed by societal context, should dispassionately consider all the available empirical ...
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The America Invents Act at Work – The Major Cause for the Recent Rise in Patent Litigation from www.ipwatchdog.com It is ironic and highly likely that the AIA – the legislation touted by its proponents as the instrument to reduce the number of costly patent lawsuits – is in fact the major cause for their increase ...
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A chance for IP Finance readers to excel? The 2013 JIPLP competition from ipfinance.blogspot.com The
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, otherwise known as
JIPLP (pronounced "jip-lip" -- not that that matters) holds an annual competition to amuse its readers, and indeed anyone else who has a genuine love of ...
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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-877) Regarding Certain Omega-3 Extracts From Marine Or Aquatic Biomass from www.itcblog.com On April 11, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Omega-3 Extracts From Marine Or Aquatic Biomass and Products Containing the Same ...
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AMP v. Myriad Gene Patenting Oral Arguments from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, 12-398 (Supreme Court 2013) oral argument transcript. The Supreme Court held oral arguments today in the much watched Gene patent case pending before the US ...
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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-878) Regarding Certain Electronic Devices Having Placeshifting Or Display Replication Functionality from www.itcblog.com On April 11, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Electronic Devices Having Placeshifting Or Display Replication Functionality and Products Containing Same ...
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Myriad Genetic Database Under Siege from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- With the U.S. Supreme Court set to consider the patent-eligibility of claims to isolated human DNA in AMP v. Myriad Genetics this morning, another aspect of Myriad’s control over ...
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