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SkinMedica v. Histogen 23 Aug 2013 | 11:19 pm
By Jason Rantanen SkinMedica Inc. v. Histogen Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2013) Download SkinMedica v Histogen Panel: Rader (dissenting), Clevenger, Prost (author) SkinMedica owns Patents No. 6,372,494 and 7,11...
Federal Circuit: Secret Patent Trials are OK 23 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
By Dennis Crouch By their nature, patents have the power to control the ways that we can use our property. Gun laws can prohibit gun owners from shooting in certain areas. In the same way, a patent c...
USPTO: Software Composition Inventions are Unpatentable under §101 unless they Clearly Disavow that the Storage Mechanism is a Transitory Wave or Sign... 22 Aug 2013 | 01:58 am
By Dennis Crouch Ex parte Mewherter (PTAB 2013) The USPTO has recently designated Ex parte Mewherter as a precedential decision with regards to its treatment of rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The...
Revisiting the Indispensable Party 21 Aug 2013 | 06:11 pm
By Dennis Crouch In Yesterday's case of University of Utah v. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the Federal Circuit held that the patent owner (here, University of Massachusetts) was not an indispensable part...
Federal Circuit Rejects Supreme Court Original and Exclusive Jurisdiction over State-vs-State Inventorship Disputes 21 Aug 2013 | 04:51 am
By Dennis Crouch A highlight of this opinion is Footnote 1 of Judge Moore's dissenting opinion that states "The majority baldly asserts that issues of patent ownership and inventorship are not suffic...
Hiring an IP Law Professor at the University of Missouri 20 Aug 2013 | 07:49 pm
I wanted to post this hiring announcement for – We are looking to hire a tenure-track or (tenured) professor to teach and research in the field of intellectual property. My Dean Gary Myers and the fac...
Patent Ethics by Hricik 20 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
Professor David Hricik writes Patently-O's Ethics Blog: Patent Ethics by Hricik available online at patentlyo.com/hricik. For the past year, Professor Hricik took a hiatus while clerking for Randall R...
Patently-O Bits & Bytes by Lawrence Higgins 19 Aug 2013 | 08:11 am
Upcoming Events: American Conference Institute is hosting the FDA Boot Camp in Boston, MA on September 17-18, 2013. ACI’s FDA Boot Camp has been designed to give products or patent litigators, as wel...
Resolving Patent Disputes – October 4, 2013 18 Aug 2013 | 05:21 am
I'll put out a more formal post in a couple of weeks, but I wanted to highlight an upcoming one-day conference here in Columbia Missouri on October 4, 2013 that is being jointly sponsored by the Unive...
Supplier’s Offer to Make Product Invalidates Patent under the On-Sale Bar 14 Aug 2013 | 09:07 pm
Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. v. Sunbeam Products, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2013) In a split decision, the Federal Circuit has affirmed a lower court ruling that Hamilton Beach's asserted patent claims are inva...
