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Most people with a even a passing familiarity with patents realize that for a U.S. patent to be valid, it must claim an invention that is new. What many do not know, however, is that a patent must satisfy other requirements that, while less well known, are just as important to the validity of the patent. The District Court for the Western District of New York's recent decision in University of Rochester v. G.D. Searle & Company illustrates the pitfalls of failing to meet one such requirement ‚ —the written-description requirement. -
Michael Shuster spoke on protecting early stage technology. Lynn Pasahow presented an update on biotech patent litigation with a special focus on selected recent cases. -
The United States is on the verge of enactment of a law that would inject "pro-life" politics squarely into the patent arena. Indeed, a bill sponsored by Rep. David Joseph Weldon (R-Fla.) would codify the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's existing policy that human organisms are ineligible subject matter to patent. In other words, if the bill becomes law, then the USPTO would be barred from issuing patents claiming human organisms, including genetically engineered embryos, fetuses, and human beings. -
A new Federal Circuit decision has opened the floodgates for patents on new financial services that are enabled b. -
The GATT amendments to the U.S. Patent Code will permit evidence of overseas inventive activities after January 1,. -
Thank you for the considerable interest generated by the article "Usurping Competitor's Patent Position By Little. -
Several years ago I represented a child who received serious facial scars when he was thrown from a Yamaha Trimot. -
This article reviews provisional patent applications and how they compare to a regular patent application. -
This publication provides a basic and understandable overview of plant patents. It will help prospective plant patent applicants to identify what types of plants are patentable, as well as present the legal requirements for attaining a plant patent in terms which can be understood by attorneys, plant breeders, growers and gardeners and present the formal requirements of an application for plant patents. -
Overview Of Intellectual Property Protecting the product of one's mental labor can be in the form of patents, tra.