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USPTO’s OED deputy general counsel named acting deputy director
“Covey has been just as concerned with helping patent practitioners understand where the ethical lines are as he has been concerned with punishing inappropriate behavior.” ...
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Standards, AI, and the Data Transparency Imperative
This Week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, we look at the importance data transparency and standards in the telecommunications industry. Tim Pohlmann is our guest. He is ...
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Apple’s anti-innovation strategy of devaluing patents is a claim made in a campaign that Apple deliberately pushes.
“[I]nternal Apple documents show[] a clearly articulated plan for ‘Reshaping [Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory]’ licensing obligations imposed by standard setting organizations.” Consumer device giant Apple ...
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Every Word Counts – Specification Naming conventions can limit claim scope
Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: A patent’s specification established a naming convention that applied to terms in the patent’s claims. Appeal ...
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CAFC reverses ITC’s Section 101 invalidity finding on Composition of matter claims
“The dispute in this matter centers around the recited magnet properties… and their relation to the claimed [polycrystalline diamond compound].” – CAFC Today the U.S. ...
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Federal Circuit: Written description and enablement depend on what a patent ‘claims,’ not what the claims cover
[co-author: Shivani Prakash] The Federal Circuit reversed a recent district court decision which found that a patent that failed to describe after-arising technologies did not ...
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CA
“Vidal’s brief claims the Eastern District of Texas’ jury instructions regarding patent eligibility ‘misstate the relevant [Alice step two] inquiry, and their use in this ...
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Jones Day
Palo alto Networks (PAN), filed a petition to inter partes review Centripetal Networks patent–U.S. Patent No. Patent No. 10,530,903 is a computer system that correlates ...
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Patents and the Future of USPTO during Trump’s Second term
This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we enter the world of innovation politics with a discussion about what to expect for the patent world during President ...