Intellectual Property Law

USPTO News: USPTO Schedules Roundtable Discussion on Deferred Examination
By Christopher P. Singer -- In a Federal Register pre-publication Notice scheduled to be published officially in tomorrow's Federal Register, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it plans to hold a roundtable discussion regarding deferred examination options...

USPTO to Host Deferred Patent Examination Roundtable
In the January 28, 2009 Federal Register, the USPTO announced that it will be hosting a roundtable event to discuss the topic of deferred patent examination. According to the Federal Register (excerpt link below), the roundtable will be held on February 12, 2009, from 9 a...

Deferred Examination: Does Putting Things Off Lesson Your Workload
In response to suggestions from the intellectual property (IP) community that the USPTO adopt some form of a deferred examination procedure, the Patent Office will conduct a public roundtable discussion on the topic on Thursday, February 12, 2009, from 9 a...

Patently-O Bits and Bytes No. 44: Deferred Examination
Deferred Examination I: For the current state of PTO backlog, I am a strong believer in providing a mechanism to either (i) allowing the inventor pay to move to the front of the examination line if the patent needs to...

U.S. Patent Office to Host Roundtable on Deferred Examination.
Per a press release at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website today: In response to suggestions from stakeholders in the intellectual property (IP) community that the USPTO adopt some form of a deferred examination procedure, the agency will conduct a public roundtable discussion on the topic on Thursday, February 12, 2009, from 9 a...

USPTO publie des documents de formation pour les examinateurs sur le written description requirement
Ce matériel sera d’intérêt pour les gens en biotech entre autres puisque le document contient plusieurs exemples pratiques de revendications sur des nucléotides, etc.. Voici un extrait de l’annonce du USPTO: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has published updated patent examiner training materials regarding the examination of patent applications under the written description [...

Zantac Patent
GlaxoSmithKline and Cypress Pharmaceutical settle patent infringement dispute.

Federal Government
Florida residents sue claiming extraordinary delays in judging citizenship applications.

Soliris Patent
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to pay the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $10 million patent infringement settlement.

Options Backdating
Former Broadcom executive settles $1.3 million stock option backdating lawsuit.

DRAM Patent
ProMOS Technologies and Mosel Vitelic pay MOSAID Technologies an undisclosed patent infringement settlement.

Sony
to Pay $18.5 Million For Patent Infringment