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Coordinating Patent Filings in the US, Japan, and Korea
April 26th, 2022
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has extended the Expanded Collaborative Search Pilot (CSP) program, originally running from November 2017 through October 2020, for an additional two years. As of March 29, the USPTO, the Japan Patent Office…
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NFT Piracy and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
April 15th, 2022
As we’ve explained in previous blogs, An NFT is a type of cryptocurrency asset wherein each item, or token, is unique. It is not easily exchangeable for another value or item. An NFT is also a digital certificate of ownership for any designated dig…
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IP Issues in Your Contractor Agreements
April 11th, 2022
Too many businesses make a potentially risky – and expensive – mistake when they fail to secure intellectual property (IP) rights via their contractor agreements. A contractor can be anyone from a high-priced management consultant to someone writ…
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Intellectual Property in Wartime
April 4th, 2022
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine continues as of this writing, with more than 600 – perhaps more than 2,000 — Ukrainian civilians dead and Ukrainian cities bombarded into rubble. You might wonder what that has to do with intellectual pro…
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Federal Circuit: Dual-Access Lock Patents Invalid
March 24th, 2022
The Federal Circuit has affirmed the Eastern District of New York’s grant of summary judgment that dual-access lock patents were invalid because they claimed ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101, which states that Whoever invents or dis…
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Federal Circuit Confirms Secret Process Can Create On-Sale Bar
March 22nd, 2022
The Federal Circuit reversed the District Court for the District of Pennsylvania’s summary judgement that a medical device design patent wasn’t invalid under the on-sale bar rule. Junker v. Medical Components, Inc. involved a design patent for …
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Federal Circuit Provides Guidance on Applicant Admitted Prior Art
March 10th, 2022
A recent Federal Circuit decision in the case of Qualcomm v. Apple provides guidance on the treatment of Applicant Admitted Prior Art (AAPA) under 35 U.S.C § 311(b) in Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings. Under 35 U.S.C § 311(b), A petitioner in…
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Innovative Companies Ranked Based on Patents
March 8th, 2022
In our previous post, we covered a few companies that were highly ranked based on their innovation. The rankings were based on three main criteria: technological networking, digitization of products and processes, as well as technological dynamics. A…
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Patent Trends in Clean Energy Technology
February 17th, 2022
Today, the energy industry is responsible for nearly half of global greenhouse gas emissions. As such, various energy companies have been taking steps to create clean energy technologies, namely tidal, solar, and wind, to curb the effects of global w…
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Patent Office Proposes Electronic Patents
February 11th, 2022
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is proposing to implement the electronic issuance of patents. As the Federal Register explains, Currently, the USPTO issues “letters patent” (hereafter, patents) as paper patents under the sea…
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