The International IP Commercialization Council (IIPCC) held an event entitled Promoting Innovation, Investment and Job Growth by Fixing America’s Patent System. The event, held in the basement of the U.S. Capitol, featured many speakers and panelists who discussed various issues with the current state of the U.S. patent system and how those issues were [...]
Recent report states, specialist professional service consulting house Beaton research +consulting reveals results of survey. The report is going to make uncomfortable reading for executives and practitioners. Side by side it will bring comfort to partners and practitioners at privately held firms, many of whom believes that their independence present an opportunity to differentiate [...]
On April 6, 2001, before the critical date, Helsinn entered into two agreements with MGI Pharma, Inc., including a Supply and Purchase Agreement. The agreements were announced via press release, which included redacted copies (price and specific dosage formulations were omitted). The Supply and Purchase Agreement included a provision conditioning performance on favorable clinical [...]
Blockchain is the buzzword among new industries looking to leverage a technology which has recently been labelled by the Harvard Business Review as a ‘foundational technology’, with ‘the potential to create new foundations for our economic and social systems.’ A blockchain is a form of distributed ledger technology, best known for being the foundation [...]
The Federal Circuit’s panel decision in Achates Reference Publ’g, Inc. v. Apple Inc. held that PTAB decisions to institute IPR are unreviewable even where the § 315(b) time bar may have been violated. The en banc question here is whether to overrule Achates. The USPTO’s interest in the case was clear from the large [...]
Ex parte appeals (or “appeals”) provide a rare opportunity for applicants to involve new decision-makers to independently assess the quality of pending rejections. However, a substantial disadvantage of appeals is that they introduce a sizable prosecution delay. The average delay between a time at which an appeal is received at the Patent and Trademark [...]
