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Patent Docs Focuses on recent developments in biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent law, offering updates regarding changes in Patent Office rules and procedures that affect biotech/pharma patent prosecution, providing summaries of recent court decisions that impact biotech/pharma patent litigation and prosecution, and monitoring newly filed biotech/pharma patent litigation. In addition, Patent Docs highlights recently issued biotech/pharma patents, and reports on biotech/pharma news.
Patently-O: Patent Law Blog: Supreme Court: Current Test of Obvi
KSR v. Teleflex (Supreme Court 2006, Oral Arguments). The doctrine of nonobviousness is the cornerstone of American patent law. I was reminded today by Phil Swain that our nonobviousness statute, section 103(a) of the Patent Act, was drafted by Judge Giles Rich . Judge Rich is the most celebrated patent judge of this century. His statutory masterpiece eliminated the amorphous concept of a “flash of genius” and replaced it with our now ubiquitous objective standard of a person having ordinary skill in the art.
Aug 28 2011 Several months ago the Supreme Court insulated arbitration clauses in consumer and other small claims settings from the most frequent challenge to their enforceability – the allegation that they are unconscionable unless they allow class action proceedings. The decision presents businesses with a choice – many will use mandatory arbitration clauses in licensing, online, services, and other contracts. Trademark law gives the mark owner a right to protect against conduct that is likely to create confusion about sources or sponsorship of a product or service.
Contemporary Intellectual Property, Licensing & Information Law
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Things That Are Not In the U.S. Constituti
Guest Post by Robert R. Sachs of Fenwick & West LLP “Not even wrong.” So said Wolfgang Pauli about a proposed analysis by a young physicist, meaning that the arguments were not subject to falsification, the basic tool of scientific analysis. So too it can be said about the Supreme Court’s decision in Mayo v.
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