Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
By Christopher Hall & Mike Gencarella Here is an argument we are using in response to rejections under 35 USC §101 that allege the claims are directed to an abstract idea and are patent ineligible. This is useful in Office action responses, and…
Several weeks ago we analyzed the IPR data for Q3 which has been steadily rising since September 2012. This week, our Data Science Team decided to look into Covered Business Method (CBM) Review, which is the second most popular type of Patent Office Trial…
The stage is being set for a coordinated attack on the patent system under the guise of making international health care more affordable. A newly released United Nations report encourages developing countries to use compulsory licenses to seize drugs,…
Introduction To be successful, companies must identify and manage risks in their operations. Operational risks associated with Intellectual Property (IP) mostly fall into one of two risk categories: (1) loss of the company's IP assets, and (2)…
Public IP licensing companies (PIPCOs) are very much alive and some company shares are doing surprisingly well, despite increased obstacles to patent licensing. PIPX reported a 20.4% gain for the 3Q vs. just 3.3% for the S&P 500 . It was the PIPX’s…
By David Crowe Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP Many American companies depend on strong global sales of key products featuring innovative product design. Foreign knockoffs of these designs can be common and devastating to these companies, making the…
Drafting chemical patent applications is an art. Unfortunately, many things, even little things, can be fatal. Below is short list of things that can be easily dealt with during the drafting process to avoid issues later. This list is intended to inform…
This week at Patexia, our Data Science Team investigated third quarter changes in the number of registered patent practitioners. Examining data from the USPTO Practitioner Roster, we saw that at the end of the second quarter , there were 44,424 registered…
In what may be a first, a new U.S. patent includes a statement about the geographic location of the colorant composition. The patent – U.S. Patent No. 9,376,569 – issued June 28, 2016 and is entitled “Colorant compounds derived from…
Patent lawsuits often involve multiple patents and dozens of asserted patent claims. When asserting these claims lack patentable subject matter, it can be more convenient to describe the asserted claims in one representative form, or as some courts…
On September 20, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming the summary judgement that Abbott’s U.S. Patent No. 5,344,915 (“the ’915 Patent”) was sufficiently supported by the written…
Couple of weeks ago, our Data Science Team released Patexia Ranking Engine for the first time by ranking the Top 25 Plaintiff-Side Law Firms based on the data for 2015 district court filing activities. The list included a mix of relatively small and large…
