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Associations suggest patent eligibility guidance changes to USPTO

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

November 03 2015

View our webinar on obviousness in US district courts and PTAB

View a replay of our “Effective obviousness arguments in district courts and PTAB” webinar, which took place on November 4 and featured McAndrews Held & Malloy president Robert Surrette and Stryker intellectual property counsel Mary Elizabeth Mauro

November 03 2015

Could a computer do your job?

Artificial intelligence is developing so fast that a patent will be filed, and granted, without human intervention within 25 years. That was the proposition at a debate organised by the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys in London

November 03 2015

Judge Newman highlights vagaries of Section 101 jurisprudence

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

November 03 2015

Sanctioned lawyers, defining "final judgment" and claim construction issues – this week at the Federal Circuit

This week, the Federal Circuit handed down rulings on whether lawyers reprimanded by the trial judge were formally sanctioned, the nuances of claim construction and dicta about why it has a different definition of "final judgment" from other Circuits

October 30 2015

EFF, TXED, DMCA exceptions, TPP, SAP, Google, 1984 – the week in IP

An amicus brief aimed at reducing the Eastern District of Texas’s dominance, Canadian concerns over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, limited exceptions to the DMCA being announced, SAP and Google reaching a patent agreement, and George Orwell’s estate making an ironic demand were in the IP headlines in the past week

October 30 2015

UPC Rules of Procedure released

The Preparatory Committee has published the final version of the Rules of Procedure for the Unified Patent Court, including changes to the rules on opt outs and language

October 30 2015

Takeaways from the AIPLA Annual Meeting

Managing IP was reporting from the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Annual Meeting in Washington DC last week. Here are some of the topics, tidbits and takeaways from the meeting

October 29 2015

The parody exception analysed

Parodies have long been popular in English culture, but it was only in October 2014 that a parody exception was introduced to the copyright law. A year on, Iona Silverman sets out what both rights owners and parodists should bear in mind

Managing IP Correspondent, October 29 2015

Unitary Patent and UPC: the state of play

The first Unitary Patents may be granted one year from now. Following our series of articles on the Unitary Patent and UPC, James Nurton and Kingsley Egbuonu take stock of where we are now and what remains to be done before Europe’s new patent system can come into effect

Managing IP Correspondent, October 29 2015

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