Kristen Hansen

Dec 10, 2024 | ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann |Kristen Hansen

Support IPWatchdog with an individual sponsorship: Click here “Our precedent demonstrates that an offer directed to a United States entity at its United States place of business is an offer ‘made in this country’ as required for pre-AIA § 102(b).” – CAFC The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Tuesday, December 10, in its sixth precedential patent opinion of the last week, reversed and remanded a district court finding that Crown Packaging Technology Inc.’s patents were...

Dec 10, 2024 | ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Eileen McDermott |Kristen Hansen |David Jackrel

Support IPWatchdog with an individual sponsorship: Click here This week my conversation is with Leo White, who is Chief IP Counsel and Associate General Counsel for The Duracell Company.

Dec 9, 2024 | ipwatchdog.com | Kristen Hansen |David Jackrel |Josh Sloat |Steve Brachmann

Support IPWatchdog with an individual sponsorship: Click here An invention cannot be patented if the differences between a claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made.

Jul 7, 2024 | ipwatchdog.com | Kristen Hansen |Josh Sloat |David Jackrel |Ty Davis

Is your patent application only good enough to get through the examination process? Or has it been crafted to stand the tests of time and varied audiences if you later need to assert that document against an infringer, find yourself litigating with it in an Article 3 Court at the hands of a judge and jury, God forbid, end up having to defend its validity at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), or even needing to use it to block pirated imports at the International Trade Commission (ITC)?

Feb 2, 2024 | ipwatchdog.com | Kristen Hansen |Josh Sloat |David Jackrel |Eileen McDermott

Claim construction is a process in which courts attempt to interpret the meaning and scope of the claims of a patent. It’s effectively reconstructing what an inventor and their practitioner meant back when they drafted the patent application.