Patents

Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days ... Read More

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Doctrine of Equivalents: Tips for Plaintiffs, Defendants, and Patent Prosecutors" on June 18, 2019 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET). Brian Coggio of Fish & Richardson, Mark Feldstein of Finnegan, and Sailesh Patel of Schiff Hardin will provide ... Read More

Under a day to go until another sell-out IPBC Global gets underway and the buzz is already building ... Read More

In an interview with IAM Rembrandts in the Attic author Kevin Rivette made the case for applicants spending a lot more on the prosecution process. We asked the market whether it agreed. ... Read More

As our readers may recall, in April last year, the Delhi High Court had disposed of the patent working PIL filed by Prof. Basheer in 2015, directing the Government to complete all steps towards effectuating necessary amendments to optimise the patent working provisions within strict timelines. As per its undertaking, the Government ... Read More

The current debate in the US around legislative changes to the eligible subject matter regime stands in marked contrast to the one triggered by the Innovation Act between 2013 and 2016 ... Read More

In an exclusive sit-down with IAM at the automaker’s headquarters, Yosuke Iida says that its latest royalty-free licence scheme can help transform the company’s business – and the environment ... Read More

By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier this year, in U.S. Water Services, Inc. v. Novozymes A/S, the Federal Circuit reversed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, partially granting judgment as a matter of law in favor of Defendants-Appellees Novozymes A/S and Novozymes North America, ... Read More

By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier this year, in U.S. Water Services, Inc. v. Novozymes A/S, the Federal Circuit reversed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, partially granting judgment as a matter of law in favor of Defendants-Appellees Novozymes A/S and Novozymes North America, ... Read More

Hui Zhang and Hui ZhangAfter several rounds of revisions, the latest draft of the 4th amendment of the Patent Law was released by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (“NPC”) after its first reading in December 2018. This version is expected to be very close to the final ... Read More

Kluwer Patent bloggerThe focus in The Netherlands on the option of compounding medicines as a means to circumvent the use of (expensive) authorised medicinal products of pharmaceutical companies and to pressurize them into lowering their prices, is confusing and possibly misleading and not necessarily good for patients. Attorney-at-law Hanneke Later-Nijland, ... Read More

PPH means Patent Prosecution Highway. It is a co-operative program between the participating foreign offices to expedite the allowance of patent applications that previously received favorable rulings. Under PPH, participating patent offices have agreed that when an applicant receives a final ruling from a first patent office that at least ... Read More

Section 101 hearings end with Senator Tillis admitting that work needs to be done on key parts of the proposal; says to expect draft legislation after 4th July break ... Read More

Miquel MontañáOver the last few months, SPC aficionados have been expecting the birth of what is known as the “SPC Manufacturing Exception” proposed by the European Commission. Readers will remember that in May 2018, the European Commission proposed an amendment to Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and ... Read More

by Dennis Crouch Power Integrations, Inc. v. Semiconductor Components (ON Semiconductor) (Fed. Cir. 2019) The Federal Circuit has ordered dismissal of On Semiconductor’s IPR petitions against several patents owned by Power Integrations.  The basic issue on appeal was interpretation of the time-bar under 35 U.S.C. 315(b) (b) An inter partes ... Read More

Sandoz B.V. v. Astrazeneca AB, Supreme Court of the Netherlands, Opinion Advocate General Van Peursem, 10 May 2019, Case No. ECLI:NL:PHR:2019:608 Astrazeneca holds patent EP 1250138 relating to a fulvestrant formulation. A product with fulvestrant is marketed by Astrazeneca under the name FASLODEX and is used for the treatment of ... Read More

The iPhone giant’s portfolio is at the heart of the defence it plays when the subject of an assertion – and analysis shows that much of it has been acquired rather than grown organically ... Read More

Bart van WezenbeekAlthough at first instance the patent was found to lack inventive step without using the problem-and-solution approach, the use of the PSA by the Court of Appeal did not make a difference to the outcome in the present case. Case date: 28 May 2019 Case number: 200.222.873/01 Court: Court ... Read More

Ongoing royalty negotiations are revealed after US network operator reportedly notifies government. Why the conflict, which follows a 2016 dispute with T-Mobile, may alarm Nokia and Ericsson ... Read More

By Kevin E. Noonan -- "Solving" the problem of high prescription drug prices has been on the minds of our representatives in Congress lately, and the desire to "do something" about it has reached the point that just doing something (or being perceived as doing something) has become an end ... Read More

By Kevin E. Noonan -- "Solving" the problem of high prescription drug prices has been on the minds of our representatives in Congress lately, and the desire to "do something" about it has reached the point that just doing something (or being perceived as doing something) has become an end ... Read More

by Grant Harrison (grant@patentlyo.com) Data Privacy: Data Privacy or Information Privacy Law is, in short, a way to regulate how companies, individuals, and governments access, use, and collect public information, usually via online. Contemporaneous information privacy law has been around since the 1970’s when the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) first ... Read More

At times, courts are asked to clarify what FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) means for standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing terms. The two most fruitful U.S. cases in this regard have been Microsoft v. Motorola (Judge James L. Robart, Western District of Washington) and FTC v. Qualcomm (Judge Lucy H. Koh, ... Read More

The Data Business Congress will take place in San Jose, CA, next February with the focus on the capture, protection, management, exploitation and monetisation of one of the pivotal assets of the 21st century ... Read More

This is the second part of today's little trilogy of FRAND posts. Like the previous one, it deals with some Qualcomm antitrust litigation pending in the U.S. and involves third-party submissions (amicus curiae briefs).Yesterday evening, the FTC filed its opposition to Qualcomm's motion to stay the enforcement of antitrust remedies ... Read More

This is the first part of today's little trilogy of FRAND-related posts.In early May, the Antitrust Division of the DOJ, under Qualcomm's former outside counsel and now-Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, filed an amicus brief with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California more than three ... Read More

The Supreme Court has resolved a significant issue of trademark and bankruptcy law that was decades in the making. In Mission Product Holdings Inc v Tempnology, LLC, it held that rejection of the trademark licence agreement constitutes a breach of the contract, but it does not rescind it, nor does it ... Read More

Move designed to influence debate in Europe and comes on same day as implementers publish their own guidelines.   ... Read More

Interpretation of a patent claim in differentiation from the prior art – Federal Court of Justice, judgment of 27.11.2018, X ZR 16/17 – Scheinwerferbelüftungssystem In its decision, the Federal Court of Justice deals with the interpretation of a patent claim in distinction from the state of the art cited by ... Read More

There are new uses for the underlying technology in cryptocurrency – blockchain – emerging almost every day. While we are yet to see where this technology will be applied in the commercial sector, data from the IPlytics Platform shows that large corporations are starting to build blockchain IP portfolios. ... Read More