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OCTOBER 2008

Duffy predicts patent changes

Professor John Duffy made three predictions about the patent system in Managing IP's first e-symposium last month

The power of the Federal Circuit may become increasingly limited; a global trend toward decentralised patent examination could emerge; and US courts may soon return to using objective factors, rather than legal tests, in determining non-obviousness. These were there predictions made by Professor John Duffy of George Washington University Law School in the keynote presentation in Managing IP's first e-symposium, held last month.



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