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Jan 14, 2025 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |John Powers |Steve Brachmann |Joseph Allen
IPWatchdog LIVE Moves to March in 2025: Click for details “The Office also plans to bolster its AI expertise by hiring examiners ‘with AI experience and expertise,’ according to the Strategy.”The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced an official Artificial Intelligence Strategy aimed at outlining the challenges faced by the Office both internally and externally as the reach of AI impacts all aspects of innovation and society.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Joseph Allen |Stephen Schreiner
IPWatchdog LIVE Moves to March in 2025: Click for details “The CAFC explained that, as pled, BearBox’s conversion claim is preempted because it is ‘essentially an inventorship cause of action and patent infringement cause of action, and thus seeks ‘patent-like protection’ for ideas that are unprotected under federal law.’” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Monday, January 13, issued a precedential decision denying a state law conversion claim as being preempted by...
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Joseph Allen |Eileen McDermott
IPWatchdog LIVE Moves to March in 2025: Click for details “The new guidelines risk returning us to the bad old days when NIH inventions gathered dust on the shelf.” On its way out the door, the Biden Administration just released new guidelines for those seeking to license inventions made at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that could lead to new “drugs, biologics (including vaccines) or devices for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of human disease.” The administration has claimed...
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Alec Pronk |Joseph Allen |Steve Brachmann
Support IPWatchdog with an individual sponsorship: Click here “The court issued 60 Rule 36 decisions as of August 2024 and 75 opinions in PTAB appeals, ‘which amounts to a relative-Rule-36 frequency of 44.44%.’” – ParkerVision petitionParkerVision, Inc.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Joseph Allen |Steve Brachmann |Josh Sloat
Support IPWatchdog with an individual sponsorship: Click here “I am not convinced that injury for interference with property provides the necessary ‘close historical or common-law analogue’ to Plaintiffs’ alleged injury.”- District Court opinion The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday, November 7, dismissed a copyright infringement complaint filed by Raw Story Media and Alternet Media against OpenAI, holding that the news outlets lacked Article III standing...
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Joseph Allen
Support IPWatchdog with an individual sponsorship: Click here “With the emergence of the guidelines, we found ourselves with our backs against the goal line. But we held because we found out that there are a lot more of us than we knew who were willing to stand up and push back.”As we sort through the results of the recent election, one thing that should be noted is what didn’t happen.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Joseph Allen |Eileen McDermott
“The award winners represent thousands of others who labor every day in our universities, federal laboratories and most importantly, the private sector, turning federally funded inventions into products which better the human condition.” Every once in a while, it’s important to step back to remind ourselves why we continue to stand up for the American patent system and the Bayh-Dole Act, which injected the authorities and incentives of patent ownership into the federal R&D system so that...
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Joseph Allen |Wayne Carroll
“In response to comments…the Office agreed to revise the rule to provide ‘an alternative to the ‘complete copy of the home page’ requirement where submitting a complete copy is not feasible due to the size or continuous nature of the home page.'”The U.S. Copyright Office has implemented a rule that offers a new group registration option for frequently updated news websites.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Joseph Allen |Eileen McDermott |Wayne Carroll
Our conversation today is with Corey Salsberg, who is the Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs for Novartis, one of the world’s leading and more innovative biopharmaceutical companies. During a wide ranging conversation that goes for just over an hour, we discuss whether patents are to blame for high drug prices, and if not what is the real driver of drug prices in America.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Joseph Allen |Eileen McDermott
“If the Administration can misuse a 44-year-old statute in ways which were explicitly rejected by the law’s authors, why can’t it do the same with these vaguely worded guidelines? The answer is they could—and probably would.”With exquisitely bad timing, the National Institutes of Heath (NIH) floated a new policy governing licensing inventions made by its scientists subtitled “Promoting Equity in Access Planning.”.
