by Juliette Boynton | Jul 2, 2024 | US & International
However, in a significant development we now report, means-plus-function language for a claim to an antibody complied with both of the USPTO requirements for written description and for the claim not to be indefinite. Where functional language alone is used in US...
by David Eyre | Jun 26, 2024 | Designs & Copyright, US & International
Registered Design Rights be they UK Registered Design Rights, European Registered Design Rights, US Design Patents or Registered Design Rights granted in other jurisdictions are highly useful Intellectual Property Rights that have been increasing in commercial...
by Alyson Lam | May 30, 2024 | US & International
Patent Term Patent Term Adjustments (PTA) Applicants can now request PTA within 3 months of the grant for patents which are granted 4 years after the filing date, or 3 years after filing a request for examination, whichever is later. When calculating the adjustment...
by David Eyre | Jan 22, 2024 | US & International
Background – Skinny Labelling Enacted by the Hatch–Waxman Act In 1984, the US Congress introduced a law called the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act, or the “Hatch–Waxman” Act after the two sponsors of the bill: Representative Henry Waxman and...
by Carolyn Haywood | Oct 10, 2023 | US & International
Background With the present appeal, Baxalta challenged the District Court’s decision to hold claims 1–4, 19, and 20 of U.S. Patent No. 7,033,590 (the ‘590 patent) invalid for lack of enablement. Independent claim 1 is representative and recites: An isolated antibody...
by Carolyn Haywood | Mar 2, 2023 | US & International
Background In August 2022, Lite-Netics, LLC ‘Lite-Netics’, who sell string lights with magnets for attaching to a surface such as a roof edge during the Christmas period, brought an infringement action against Nu Tsai Capital, LLC d/b/a Holiday Bright Lights (HBL)...
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