District Court Finds Method of Detecting Claim to Be Directed to Patent Ineligible Subject Matter -
Earlier this month, in Cleveland Clinic Foundation v. True Health Diagnostics, LLC, District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of...more
District Court Finds Diagnostic Claims to Be Directed to Patent Ineligible Subject Matter -
Last week, in Athena Diagnostics, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC, District Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District...more
Last week, in Enzo Biochem Inc. v. Applera Corp., the Federal Circuit determined that the District Court for the District of Connecticut accurately interpreted the Federal Circuit's decision in Enzo Biochem, Inc. v. Applera...more
Patent services provider RWS inovia recently released its eighth annual report on global patent and IP trends. In compiling "The 2017 U.S. Global Patent & IP Trends Indicator," RWS inovia, which produces products for PCT...more
District Court Overrules Defendants' Objections to Magistrate's Report on Lost Profits -
Earlier this month, in GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., U.S. District Judge Leonard P. Stark of the U.S....more
Life Sciences Top 55 -
Last week, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) announced the release of its 34th annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. patents (see "Top 300 Organizations Granted...more
District Court Denies Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Patent Eligible Subject Matter -
Earlier this year, in Viveve, Inc. v. Thermigen, LLC, District Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District...more
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and CB Insight recently released the results of its US MoneyTreeTM Report on U.S. venture funding for the first quarter of 2017. The report indicates that venture capitalists invested $13.9...more
On May 23, 2017, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced a new five-year strategic plan for WIPO Re:Search to guide that initiative's activities in the fight against neglected tropical diseases, malaria,...more
Magistrate Recommends Narrow Interpretation of Inter Partes Review Estoppel Provision -
Earlier this month, in Biscotti Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., U.S. Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...more
Last month, in Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. v. Luitpold Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Senior District Judge William H. Walls of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey issued an amended opinion granting the motion for...more
In a letter sent to President Trump earlier this month, a group of twenty companies, organizations, and individuals expressed concern about the effect of the President's January 23, 2017 hiring freeze on the U.S. Patent and...more
Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office posted a notice on its website announcing the formation of a Working Group on Regulatory Reform "to consider, review, and recommend ways that USPTO regulations can be improved,...more
Last week, in Bayer CropScience AG and Bayer S.A.S. v. Dow Agrosciences LLC, the Federal Circuit determined that the District Court for the District of Delaware did not abuse its discretion in determining that, under the...more
Earlier this month, in Bayer CropScience AG v. Dow Agrosciences LLC, the Federal Circuit concluded that the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia correctly confirmed an international arbitration tribunal's award...more
USPTO Enhances Transaction Security for Deposit Account Authorizations -
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced today, March 13, 2017, via a USPTO Alert e-mail that effective Wednesday, March 15, 2017, any charge...more
Last month, in In re Depomed, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed the determination by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board that two instituted grounds in an inter partes review rendered claims 1,...more
In January, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the addition of several new features to its patent data visualization and analysis tool, PatentsView, which allows the public to interactively engage, through a...more
Last month, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released its 5th annual International IP Index, entitled "The Roots of Innovation," which provides an "IP report card" for 45 world economies that account for 90% of the global gross...more
On February 22, 2017, in Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp., the Supreme Court reversed a determination by the Federal Circuit that there are circumstances in which a party may be liable under ยง 271(f)(1) for supplying...more
USPTO Announces Expansion of eMod Text Pilot -
In August 2015, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it would begin implementing a new system that would eventually replace the EFS-Web, Public PAIR, and...more
Last month, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), a trade association representing the U.S. venture capital industry, released the results of its Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor report on venture funding for the...more
Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register (82 Fed. Reg. 3758) requesting comments from stakeholders regarding whether the accelerated examination program should be retained or...more
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently released its Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2016. In describing the USPTO's strategic and performance-planning framework, the 2016 report reminds readers that...more
After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its tenth annual list of top patent stories. For 2016, we identified twenty stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe...more
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