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Comparing U.S. and Australian Provisional Patent Applications
September 11, 2015 | Blog | By Christina Sperry
The United States and Australia each offer the option of filing a provisional patent application before filing a national or PCT non-provisional patent application.
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Expediting Patent Prosecution with the New Collaborative Search Pilot Program
August 7, 2015 | Blog | By Christina Sperry
Two new Collaboration Search Pilot Programs are or will soon be available to patent applicants. The Collaboration Search Pilot Program (CSP) between the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Japan Patent Office (JPO) is available as of August 1, 2015.
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‘Last Week Tonight’ Host John Oliver Ignores the Last Three Years of Patent Reform
May 1, 2015 | Blog | By Michael Renaud, Robert Moore
Have you seen John Oliver’s piece about abuses in the patent system? If not, take a look here. The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host has quite a bit of fun at the expense of the patent system.
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District Court Rules Against Amgen's Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Prevent Marketing of Sandoz's Biosimilar Zarxio
March 20, 2015 | Blog | By Thomas Wintner, Terri Shieh-Newton
In an order released on March 19, 2015, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg of the Northern District of California denied Amgen’s motion for judgment on the pleadings as well as its request for a preliminary injunction to prevent Sandoz from marketing its drug Zarxio®.
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Court Denies Generic Drug Manufacturer's Motion to Dismiss Hatch-Waxman Patent Infringement Action on Jurisdiction Grounds
March 18, 2015 | Blog | By Peter Cuomo, Joe Rutkowski
On March 12, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana joined the District of Delaware and Eastern District of Texas as the first courts to consider a generic drug manufacturer’s motion to dismiss a Hatch-Waxman patent infringement action for an alleged lack of personal jurisdiction following the Supreme Court’s decision in Daimler AG v. Bauman, 134 S.Ct. 746 (2014).
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C.D. Cal. Swims Against the Tide of Software Patent Ineligibility in Caltech v. Hughes
December 31, 2014 | Blog | By Michael Van Loy, Inna Dahlin
Patent applicants from the software and business method fields took notice after the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. V. CLS Bank International, et al. (“Alice,” 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014)) on June 19, 2014, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) followed with preliminary guidelines (“Guidelines”) issued June 25, 2014 for examining subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 of claims relating to a judicially created exception to patent eligibility.
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Did the USPTO Really Improve the 'After Final Consideration Pilot'?
October 3, 2014 | Blog | By Lisa Adams
On October 1, 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) announced the After Final Consideration Pilot 2.0 (“AFCP 2.0”) – a program intended to provide new features that will enhance communication between the USPTO and the applicant, as compared with the original After Final Consideration Pilot (“AFCP”).
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What’s Happening with Patents at the USPTO? Chief of Staff Byrnes has Answers!
September 19, 2014 | Blog | By Lisa Adams
On September 16, 2014, United States Patent and Trademark Office Chief of Staff Andrew Byrnes presented to the Boston Patent Law Association an update on new quality initiatives and the implementation of White House patent policies.
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USPTO Guidance for Examiners Takes Expansive View of Myriad and Prometheus Decisions
March 7, 2014 | Blog
On March 4, 2014, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) issued a memorandum to the Patent Examining Corps with guidance for determining the patent eligibility of claims relating to products of nature and laws of nature (“the Guidance”) in view of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Assoc. for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics (“Myriad”) and Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. (“Prometheus”).
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