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International Patent Filing Considerations for Startups

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For U.S. startups developing innovative technology, the decision of where and how to file international patents requires a careful balance of strategic considerations versus costs. After filing your initial U.S. application,...more

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The EPO Adopts a Patentee-Friendly Approach on Assessing Formal Priority Entitlement

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The Background: There has been a growing trend to invalidate European patents by challenging their formal priority and using intervening prior art. The Technical Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office ("EPO") referred...more

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Where to Enter the PCT National Phase?

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Just about anywhere in the world is where one may claim a patent with an international PCT patent application.  There are, after all, 154 countries bound by the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).  But almost no one, except...more

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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Patent Offices and Federal Courts -- UPDATED

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On Wednesday, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom declared that the COVID-19 outbreak "can be characterized as a pandemic," cautioning that the WHO has "rung the alarm bell loud and clear."  At the time...more

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USPTO to Accept New Applications to Ongoing IP5 CS&E Pilot

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In a Patent Alert e-mail distributed last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that beginning July 1, 2019, the Office would once again be accepting new International applications to the IP5 Patent Cooperation...more

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“Equal to” Means “Not Exceed” when Determining Patent Term Adjustment

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) erred in calculating a patent term adjustment (PTA) for a patent covering an oral osmotic form of an antihypertensive drug,...more

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Taking Advantage of the Global Supply Chain for Patent Examination

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Innovation and Traditional Patent Process - When you develop an innovation, its potential patentability is typically unknown, thus making it difficult to determine whether it is worth the significant expense involved if...more

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A Brief History of the Patent Law of the United States

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Public perception of the patent system has swung widely over the years from highs, such as those in the late nineteenth century when Mark Twain could write “a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a...more

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