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Under 37 CFR ?1.56, there is a duty to disclose to the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) all information known to . -
Watch out when you or your company offers a new or improved product for sale -you may lose the chance to protect th. -
Has your client marked his patented product with the patent number? Required his customers to do so? If not, shoul. -
The PTO has now issued what it terms the "final version" of the Utility Examination Guidelines to be used by Exam. -
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California adopted new Local Rules 16-6 through 16-. -
This article summarizes that one can maintain a security interest in a patent if the interest in recorded in accordance with Article 9 of the UCC rather than filing with the U.S. Patent Office. -
This article details Federal Circuit decisions which relate to a patent document's scope of protection. -
This reports looks into what a patent counsel needs to investigate in order to set forth a strategy which will help a client protect its product line in the marketplace. -
An interesting package design case has been decided by the courts. -
The Supreme Court found that the Federal Circuit correctly held that a narrowing amendment made to satisfy any requirement of the Patent Act may give rise to an estoppel, but that the Federal Circuit went too far when it created a per se rule, rather than only a presumption, that any such estoppel barred the application of equivalents to the narrowed element.