copyrights
Since 1978, Copyright exists as soon as you express your original idea onto some tangible medium. Much of the difficulty with copyright law centers around the investigation into whether or…
considerformsIP
Related Links: Patents for Humanity (an awards process for inventors who invent to help humanity). Ever wonder why IBM and Microsoft spends millions of dollars obtaining thousands of patents each year?…
DNA diagnostic claims –DNA alles
The claim at issue in Genetic Technologies Limited v. Merial LLC Fed. Cir. 2016, was the following: 1. A method for detection of at least one coding region allele of…
Treatment Steps in Diagnostic claims
The USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board found that treatment of a subject for pre-eclmpsia based on the elvel of soluble endoglin and sFlt-1 together was a specific application of…
Is the claim directed to one of the patent-ineligible concepts? Rapid Litigation
The Supreme Court in Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc., 132 S. Ct. 1289, 1294, 1296-98 (2012) requires application of a two-part test for determining patent eligibility under section…
May 2016 Life Science Example 30: Natural Products
The claims for example 30 from the May USPTO life science examples re below. By way of background, the "Texas mint" plant as a thin liquid sap containing about 10%…
May 2016 Life Science Examples: Diagnostic claims: Example 29
The seven claims presented in example 29 are as below. According to the example, all but claim 2 are considered to be patent eligible. A couple things via way of…
May 2016 Life Science Example 31: Screening for an alteration of a BRCA1 gene
Example 31 from the May 2016 USPTO Examples have 5 claims which are as follows: 1. A method for screening germline of a human subject for an alteration of a…
Subject Matter Eligibility Examples: Life Sciences –USPTO May 2016
The USPTO has put out some helpful examples for the life sciences which can be found at http://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ieg-may-2016-ex.pdf The examples should be used in conjunction with the 2014 Interim Guidance on…
Disctrict Court in Endo Pharmaceuticals v. Actavis casts doubt on Precedential Value of Classen case
The Disctrict Court for the District of Delaware in Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Actavis Ind (D. Del. 2015) casts doubt as to whether the 2011 Federal Circuit case of Classen…