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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