21 Aug, 2024 Allergan Holding Protects "First-Filed" Parent Patents from Their Misbehaving Patent Offspring By Jonathan B. Thielbar This month, in Allergan USA, Inc. v. MSN Laboratories Private Ltd., the Federal Circuit added to the ongoing patent-family drama...
21 May, 2024 USPTO's Proposed New Terminal Disclaimer Rule Would Change Applicant and Patent Challenger Strategy By Jonathan B. Thielbar The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed changes to terminal disclaimer rules that could significantly...
14 May, 2024 GSK Joins COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Patent War By Dan Liu mRNA-Based Vaccine and Other Therapeutics mRNA-based vaccines have become one of the most discussed technologies both inside and outside...
25 Apr, 2024 Amending ANDA by Purportedly Carving Out Infringing Use—After Trial—Does Not Rescue the Amended ANDA from the Negative PIV Judgment By Dan Liu The district court in Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. et al v. Norwich Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Civil Action No. 20-430-RGA (D. Del.) was asked...
28 Mar, 2024 Reminder: Motivation to Combine Is Still Required to Render Patent Claims Obvious By Jonathan B. Thielbar The Federal Circuit recently reversed a PTAB obviousness finding because it found no motivation to combine features of the two cited...
22 Mar, 2024 USPTO to Allow E-Signatures but Foreign Jurisdictions Still Require Ink Signatures By William J. Kramer While e-signatures have been accepted for transactions in many facets of life for years, the USPTO finally has approved e-signatures for...
12 Mar, 2024 Patent Protection for AI-Assisted Inventions By Jonathan B. Thielbar Only “natural persons” can be named “inventors” on U.S. patents. But last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued...
19 Jan, 2024 USPTO Issues Guidelines for Assessing Enablement after the Supreme Court’s Amgen v. Sanofi Decision By Ryan Hagglund Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published the Guidelines for Assessing Enablement in Utility...
28 Dec, 2023 DABUS Denied: UK Joins EU, US and Australia In Requiring Human Inventorship For Grant of Patent By Melanie J. Howard In alignment with both the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office's determination in 2020 (affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal...
04 Dec, 2023 The Perils of Incorporation by Reference at the Federal Circuit By Ryan Hagglund Because judicial resources are limited, virtually all courts impose length limitations, such as word, page, or line limits, for briefing....
20 Nov, 2023 Investors File Class Action Suits against Insecticide Manufacturer Regarding Statements Concerning Patent Litigation By Ryan Hagglund Manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, biologics, and herbicides, as well as companies in virtually every industry, routinely make statements...
20 Nov, 2023 Updated GUI design patent guidelines issued By William J. Kramer The USPTO issued clarifying guidance on whether Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) can be covered by design patents. The relevant statute...