Michael Joffre

Feb 5, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Michael Joffre

As part of the America Invents Act (“AIA”), Congress moved the patent system from a first-to-invent to a first-inventor-to-file system. For patents governed by the new first-to-file system, the Act also eliminated interferences, which are administrative priority contests before the PTAB. In this case, the PTAB declared an interference between five first-to-file (i.e., post-AIA) patents owned by SNIPR and a first-to-invent (i.e., pre-AIA) patent application owned by Rockefeller.

Feb 5, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Michael Joffre |William G. Milliken

2023 saw a return to business as usual for the Federal Circuit. Oral arguments are once again in-person and open to the public, and the Court has resumed its former practice of holding occasional sittings outside of Washington, D.C.Turning to the statistics, the number of appeals from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) held steady from 2022, as did appeals originating from district court patent cases.

Jan 25, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Michael Joffre

Cellect owned four patents with claims that were found unpatentable by the PTAB in ex parte reexaminations for obviousness-type double patenting. The patents were granted Patent Term Adjustment (“PTA”) for the Office’s delay during prosecution pursuant to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § 154(b). The four patents claimed priority to a fifth Cellect patent—the ’036 patent—which was the only member of the patent family that did not receive a grant of PTA.

Jan 19, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Richard Crudo |Michael Joffre |William G. Milliken

January 19, 2024 January 23rd, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST Richard Crudo, Michael Joffre, Ph.D., William Milliken, Anna Phillips Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. + Follow x Following x Following - Unfollow Contact To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: January 23rd, 2024 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST Directors Michael Joffre, Ph.D., William H. Milliken, Anna G. Phillips, and Richard A. Crudo will present the webinar "Federal Circuit IP Appeals: Summaries of Key 2023...

Jun 2, 2023 | iam-media.com | Michael Joffre |Anna Phillips

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