| 04/01/2008 |
| Client Alert: USPTO Rules Null & Void |
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| 03/24/2008 |
| Client Alert: Pfizer, Inc. v. Teva Pharmas. U.S.A., Inc. |
| On March 7, 2008, the Federal Circuit held that claims originally restricted by the Patent Office and later filed in a continuation-in-part (“CIP”) application, rather than in a divisional application, are not entitled to the “safe harbor” provision ... |
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| 02/22/2008 |
| Case Alert: Federal Circuit court to consider whether business methods are patentable subject matter |
| The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) will reconsider the patentability of business methods. Last year, a three-judge panel heard oral arguments in a case that questioned whether a new way of doing business could be patented. ... |
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| 02/14/2008 |
| Client Alert: Patent Office Announces Position On Reissue Applications Based Solely On Narrowing Of Claims |
| The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) indicated in a recently-issued policy memo that it will not view the mere narrowing of claims as a basis for reissue of a patent. The memo, authored by John J. Love, Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination ... |
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| 12/12/2007 |
| Case Alert: White House Approves New IDS Rules |
| The White House yesterday announced its approval of the PTO’s proposed changes to requirements for submission of Information Disclosure Statements. If the PTO follows a similar course with this rule package as was taken with its Final Rule on Claims ... |
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| 10/31/2007 |
| Client Alert: New USPTO Rules Enjoined |
| District Judge Charles C. Cacheris today granted GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) motion to preliminarily enjoin the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from implementing its proposed new rules that would have gone into effect on November 1, 2007. |
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| 10/12/2007 |
| Client Alert: Summary of the PTO’s October 11, 2007 Clarification of the New Rules |
| On October 11, 2007, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) released a clarification to the recently published continuation and claim limit rules. |
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| 10/09/2007 |
| Case Alert: CAFC Identifies The “Ordinary Observer” In Design Patent Infringement Analysis,
Arminak and Associates, Inc. v. Saint-Gobain Calmar, Inc. |
| In Arminak and Associates, Inc. v. Saint-Gobain Calmar, Inc., the Federal Circuit refined
the standard for finding direct infringement of a design patent where a claimed design is a product component. The court held that when determining infringement ... |
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| 09/26/2007 |
| Case Alert: BMC Resources, Inc. v. Paymentech, L.P.
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| 08/23/2007 |
| Client Alert: New USPTO Rules For Prosecuting Patent Applications |
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