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Importance of Due Diligence for Patent Practitioners and the US/China Economic War
by Dennis Crouch 37 C.F.R. § 11.18(b) imposes crucial responsibilities on patent applicants, attorneys, and agents. Documents submitted to the...
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Functional Claims: Morse, Halliburton & Amgen
by Dennis Crouch In the patent context, functional limitations describe inventions in terms of their function or intended use, rather than their...
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Patent Law Primer: A Newsletter Series on Key Patent Law Topics
I am happy to announce the launch of my newsletter series, “Patent Law Primer: A Short Introduction to Key Issues in Patent Law,”...
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What Does it Mean to be an Inventor? The Inventor Diary Project and Kicking off the Diversity Pilots Initiative Blog Series
Guest Post by Colleen V. Chien , Founder of the Diversity Pilots Initiative (DPI), Professor of Law and Co-Director the High Tech Law...
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Guidance on Patenting Inventions with AI Contributions
The following are my remarks given on April 25, 2023 to the USPTO as part of their AI listening session: by Dennis Crouch Members of the...
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Hrdy & Seaman: Are NDAs unenforceable when they protect more than trade secrets?
Guest post by Camilla A. Hrdy , Professor of Intellectual Property Law at University of Akron School of Law Are NDAs unenforceable when they...
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AI Inventor and the Ethics Trap for US Patent Attorneys
by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court denied certiorari in Thaler v. Vidal , a case involving inventor Dr. Stephen Thaler’s attempt to...
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Amgen Scores Partial Victory in Efforts to Maintain OTEZLA Exclusivity
By Chris Holman Amgen Inc. v. Sandoz Inc . , 2023 WL 2994166, — 4th — (Fed. Cir. Apr. 19, 2023) In 2019, Amgen acquired worldwide rights...
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Obviousness and Stereochemistry
Amgen Inc., v. Sandoz Inc. 22-1147, — F.4th — (Fed. Cir. Apr. 19, 2023) Jordan is a second-year law student at the University of Missouri...
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In re Charger Ventures: Federal Circuit Affirms TTAB Denial of Trademark Registration
By Dennis Crouch In re Charger Ventures, — F.4th. —, 22-1094 (Fed. Cir. 2023) In this trademark case, the Federal Circuit...
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Claim Construction and Due Process: Examining NST Global v. Sig Sauer Inc. in the Supreme Court
by Dennis Crouch NST Global, LLC, dba SB Tactical v. Sig Sauer Inc. (Supreme Court 2023) This case has a low chance of being granted...
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Inventorship; Ownership; and NDAs
Take the 1-question survey on LinkedIn. The basic underlying question has to do with whether an NDA or other agreement can effectively...
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An AI Journey From Fractals to GPT
By Dennis Crouch I recently was thinking back to 1996 and the start of my senior year at Princeton University. Although I was a mechanical...
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Patently-O Bits and Bytes by Juvan Bonni
Recent Headlines in the IP World: Eric Ribner and Jaber Mohamed: Small Pharma Announces Update on Intellectual Property Portfolio with...
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Overlapping Ranges in Claims and Prior Art Result in Invalidation of Patent on Transdermal Patch for Parkinson’s Disease
By Chris Holman UCB, Inc. v. Actavis Lab’ys UT, Inc. , 2023 WL 2904757, — 4th — (Fed. Cir. Apr. 12, 2023) Rotigotine is a drug used...
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Federal Circuit Confirms its Scrutiny of Judge Newman
The recent controversy at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit involving Chief Judge Kimberly Moore and Judge Pauline Newman has raised...
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An Opinion on Chief Judge Moore’s Reported Unprecedented Effort to Remove Judge Newman
by David Hricik, Mercer Law School As has been reported by Dennis on the main page, by Gene Quinn on IP Watchdog ( here ), and by various media...
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The EU’s Response to National Judicial Determinations of FRAND Royalty Rates
Guest Post by Professor Jorge L. Contreras On March 28, 2023, Reuters reported that a proposed European Parliament and Council...
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Judge Newman
Gene Quinn is reporting that Chief Judge Moore has moved forward with proceedings to remove Judge Newman from the bench — filing a complaint...
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Eligibility and the U.S. Solicitor General: Patenting the Scientific, Technological, and Industrial Arts
by Dennis Crouch A decade ago, the US Supreme Court issued a pair of decisions that upended substantial aspects of patent practice. Mayo...
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Federal Circuit: Construing the Term “A” once Again
by Dennis Crouch In Salazar v. AT&T Mobility LLC , the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment of noninfringement....
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Federal Circuit Narrows Scope for Copyrighting Software Function
by Dennis Crouch The copyright lawsuit between the data-software company SAS Institute and its scrappy copycat World Programming has...
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What should the patent attorney do?
After coming up with a core idea for a new product, Inventor jumps on chatGPT and asks the AI to expand upon the product idea, including providing...
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eGrants and Quick Issuances
by Dennis Crouch Later this month the USPTO will transition to electronic patent grants or eGrants. This primarily a cost-savings mechanism,...
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Small Jazz Musician Foils Apple Music Trademark Registration
by Dennis Crouch Bertini v. Apple Inc. , — F.4th — (Fed. Cir. 2023) Apple Records was founded by The Beatles in 1968 and...