Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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The real news this past week is not from the Circuit but from the Supreme Court’s reversal of the Life Technologies v. Promega case. There, the Supreme Court reversed the ‎Circuit’s ruling that shipping a single component of a ‎claimed…
In re Packard Inextricably Linked to Patent Examination Practices? Back in 2014, the Federal Circuit determined the standard for a USPTO indefiniteness analysis in In re Packard ( here ). This standard was more deferential to the agency as compared to the…
In Secure Access, LLC v. PNC BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, [2016-1353] (February 21, 2017), the Federal Circuit vacated the Board’s decision in CBM2014-00100 on the ground that U.S. Patent No. 7,631,191 on a "system and method for authenticating a…
March 16th, 2013 will see the US embrace a more internationally standard patenting system: first to file (America Invents Act, or AIA). In fact literally every other country uses first to file as opposed to the US first to invent, kind of like that…
