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House Budget Committee recommends USPTO be independent agency
The House Budget Committee recently released a non-binding budget blueprint titled Building a Better America: A Plan for Fiscal Responsibility. As a part of this proposed fiscal year 2018 budget, the...
View ArticleDrug patents fare better at PTAB
While the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has not been friendly to patent owners in general, the PTAB has not been inhospitable to pharma patent owners according to a report issued by BiologicsHQ,...
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Eli Lilly cancer treatment upheld by PTAB
Several weeks ago, a final written decision issued by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) upheld a series of 22 claims from a patent owned by Indianapolis-based drugmaker Eli Lilly & Company....
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Architect of America Invents Act announces retirement from House
Longtime Texas Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology, will be retiring from his duties on Capitol Hill and will not seek reelection for...
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Andrei Iancu unanimously approved by Senate Judiciary Committee
On Thursday, December 14, 2017, President Trump’s nominee to become the new Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office was...
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SAS Institute v. Matal: Oral argument suggests a split at Supreme Court
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in SAS Institute v. Matal on Monday, November 27, 2017. This case should give the Supreme Court the opportunity to declare whether the Patent Trial...
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Rovi wins at ITC over Comcast
The U.S. International Trade Commission has issued a final determination finding a violation of section 337 in a matter dealing with infringement of patents owned by Rovi Corporation. As a result of...
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PTAB denies claims of 11th Amendment sovereign immunity
Several weeks ago, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) denied a motion filed by the University of Minnesota in a series of inter partes...
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PTO Director Nominee inches closer to confirmation
Immediately prior to the holiday recess on Capitol Hill, Andrei Iancu (pictured left), President Trump’s nominee to become the new Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and the Director...
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Predictions and Musings on 2018
Each year, I ask a panel of industry experts to make predictions for the upcoming year, and to identify particular news, stories or events they will be watching with interest. See Predictions for 2018...
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