Patent & IP news for May 26, 2014

Patent Application Pendency (Timing from Priority Date) from patentlyo.com

In a prior post, I provided data on patent application pendency — looking at applications from their filing date to the issue date. The chart adds an additional perspective — also calculating the pendency beginning with the ...

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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Forthcoming events. Here's another reminder that the IPKat's Forthcoming Events page contains all sorts of attractive distractions from the grind of daily life: conferences, lectures, seminars, even the occasional webinar. Do check out ...

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Chief Judge Rader leaves his US Patent Chiefdom behind following ethical breaches from ipkitten.blogspot.com

It surely can't be true!Merpel, who rarely raises much of a long eyebrow for IP celebrity gossip, was forced off her cashmere-clad bed to check that the news she heard on Friday was ...

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WIPO Committee On Development Has To Settle Again For Meagre Results from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization committee on development closed last week with little to show after a week of unyielding opposing positions on every sensitive issue by several countries. Frustration was palpable as those issues ...

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WHO To Develop Global Action Plan Against Antibiotic Resistance from www.ip-watch.org

Faced with growing global concern over microbial resistance to antibiotic treatments, the World Health Assembly last week adopted a resolution to establish a global action plan on antimicrobial resistance.

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NCDs As Global Policy Concern: WHO Approves Work Plan To Tackle Scourge from www.ip-watch.org

The prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) stands high on the agenda of World Health Organization member countries, many of them said last week. Governments called for a multi-stakeholder approach to tackle the problem ...

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SmartGene v. Advanced Biological Laboratories from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Earlier this month, I posed a question relating to the patent eligibility of the following claim: A method for guiding the selection of a therapeutic treatment regimen for a patient with a ...

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