Legal Research

How to Respond to § 103 Obviousness Rejections Using the All Elements Test in View of Recent Revisions to Section 2143.03 of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure
A while back, in response to my post on citing to the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, reader Michael Hull of Miller, Matthias & Hull asked an astute question (thank you!) about whether section 2143 of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) would be rewritten in response to KSR...

"All Editions of Manual of Patent Examining Procedure Now Available on Web"
Posted by Sabrina Pacifici: “All prior editions (1949-2006) and revisions of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) are now...

All Editions of Manual of Patent Examining Procedure Now Available on Web
All prior editions (1949-2006) and revisions of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) are now available in PDF on...

A Case for Citing to the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure
© 2007, Michael E. Kondoudis I recently had a debate with a colleague about whether it is preferable to cite the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) or to court/board decisions in support of a patentability argument...

Manual of Patent Examining Procedure Online
The USPTO has made available scanned copies of all editions and revisions of the Manual of Patenting Examining Procedure (MPEP) from 1948 forward. Previously, only the most recent editions were available online...

Indian Patent Office Manual Available
The "Draft Manual of Patent Practice and Procedure, India" (3d ed., February 25, 2008) is now available on-line.

Zantac Patent
GlaxoSmithKline and Cypress Pharmaceutical settle patent infringement dispute.

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

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

Sony
to Pay $18.5 Million For Patent Infringment

Qualcomm Settles Patent Suit for $891 Million

The Princeton Review
$2.6 million settlement reached in patent infringement case.