Patent & IP news for November 4, 2016

What is the Steady-State Patent Allowance Rate? from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch This post continues from two prior data-posts: Crouch, USPTO Allowance Rate, Patently-O (November 2, 2016) Crouch, Pending Patent Applications, Patently-O (November 1, 2016) Adding-in data from the USPTO Chief Economist (Alan Marco ...

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USPTO Seeks Comments and Will Hold Roundtables on Examination Time from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn –- In a Federal Register notice (81 Fed. Reg. 73383) published last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a request for public feedback regarding the Office's reevaluation of its ...

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WIPO Committee Agrees To Focus Work To Improve WIPO Technical Assistance from www.ip-watch.org

Delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization committee on development today agreed on how the committee should continue work on improving WIPO technical assistance to developing countries. For the next six sessions, delegates will work ...

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EU Commission Says Conventional Plants And Animals Not Patentable from www.ip-watch.org

The European Commission has issued its opinion on certain articles of the EU directive on biotechnological inventions, in particular the patentability of plants or animals obtained as a result of natural occurrence such as selection ...

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Proposals On How To Better Implement WIPO Development Agenda Recommendations Kept On Agenda from www.ip-watch.org

Today, the World Intellectual Property Organization committee on development agreed to pursue discussions on how WIPO is implementing the recommendations of its sweeping 2007 Development Agenda. The secretariat is instructed to provide a response to ...

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