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November 30, 2015
Member states agree on formula for distributing income from unitary patent renewal fees; UK IPO needs your feedback on the UPC IT system; five more countries needed for the Protocol on UPC Agreement; and UPC Preparatory Committee adopt final version of the UPC Rules of Procedure
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November 27, 2015
In an event hosted by AIPPI last week, Professor Sir Robin Jacob led IP law professionals in a discussion of topical issues relating to morals rights and ethics in international IP law
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November 25, 2015
This month has seen two important Federal Circuit decisions disagreeing with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s findings. Its Belden v Berk-Tek opinion included a number of lessons for practitioners
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November 25, 2015
The USPTO and Brazil’s National Institute for Industrial Property will establish a patent prosecution highway pilot programme with the aim of reducing patent workloads and improving quality
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November 24, 2015
Unwired Planet has won the first of five cases in the UK concerning standard essential patents, in a dispute with Huawei and Samsung
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November 20, 2015
Sh O P Gupta has become the new Controller of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks in India
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November 19, 2015
In our regular round-up, we summarise recently announced partner and national IP office moves in the Americas, including a new role for the former PTAB chief judge and hires from BakerHostetler, Shearman & Sterling, Baker Botts, Potomac Law Group, Covington, Jones Day and more
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November 16, 2015
A Federal Circuit panel rejected Limelight's challenges related to claim construction and $40 million of lost profit damages, bringing the near decade-long saga one step closer to its conclusion
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November 16, 2015
In a decision that raises questions about the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's ability to complete IPRs within its one-year statutory deadline, the Federal Circuit has vacated a rejection of an IPR on the ground that the Board may have failed to sufficiently consider evidence
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November 13, 2015
The Federal Circuit had a busy week, issuing eight precedential patent-related opinions. It also agreed to rehear en banc the case of The Medicines Company v Hospira
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November 12, 2015
Data – The number of PTAB petitions in October was the lowest since January. However, the USPTO also proposed raising the filing fees during the month
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November 12, 2015
Managing IP analyses the busiest companies, law firms and attoneys at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in the third quarter and so far this year, using the Docket Navigator database
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November 12, 2015
The best female lawyers from across the region gathered at the JW Marriott in Hong Kong on November 11 to celebrate the advancement of women in the legal profession at the fifth Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Women in Business Law Awards
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November 11, 2015
USPTO changes to the practice for correction of foreign priority claims are now in effect, which make the process the same as for domestic claims but will cost applicants more money than previously
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November 11, 2015
In a decision that some practitioners say is unsatisfying and a prime candidate for an en banc rehearing, the Federal Circuit ruled that the ITC does not have jurisdiction over infringing digital goods
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November 11, 2015
In what is believed to be a first, a court has found the claims of patents issued after the US Supreme Court’s Alice v CLS Bank ruling invalid for being directed to an abstract idea
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November 10, 2015
European Commission thinking on SPCs under the UPC, Off-patent Drugs Bill failing again in UK, the TPP being published, a WTO TRIPS Council’s decision on a pharma protection exemption request by LDCs, the European Parliament endorsing a plan to increase the number of General Court judges, and a Law Society report on Brexit and IP were in the recent IP headlines in Europe
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November 10, 2015
In a rare substantive opinion on a PTAB appeal, the Federal Circuit upheld the rejection of four claims but reversed the upholding of two further claims of a Belden patent
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November 10, 2015
The permanent location for the Texas Regional USPTO regional office is now officially open
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November 06, 2015
Rouse Africa, boesling IP, Bardehle Pagenberg, Inventa, Ramberg Advokater, Collyer Bristow, Redd, J A Kemp, Wood IP and the CJEU all feature in our latest summary of who’s moving where
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November 03, 2015
In a patent infringement suit involving the world's most widely-used Wi-Fi protocols, the Federal Circuit is faced with the question of how trial courts should construe an undefined claim term with a seemingly obvious plain meaning
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November 03, 2015
The deadline for comments on the USPTO’s July update to its patent eligibility guidance has passed, with 29 submissions. This included the American Intellectual Property Law Association making seven broad recommendations
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November 03, 2015
Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's questions in Morsa v Facebook showed frustration at the tendency of post-Alice Section 101 analysis to overlap with other parts of the patent law