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This article discusses the change in policy which allows courts to interpret claims themselves, thus saving both plaintiff's and defendants from having to conduct discovery on every point of law that may arise. -
This paper summarizes the importance of patent protection and several strategies to keep in mind when attempting to pursue patent protection. -
Given the ongoing debate in the political arena about stem cells research and human cloning, this article investigates the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's (PTO) past and present practice with respect to patenting such technologies. Interestingly enough, the cloning debate is no stranger to Missouri and Kansas. A couple of years ago, the University of Missouri obtained U.S. Patent No. 6,211,429. The patent was directed to a cloning technique used with "mammals," in which humans were not expressly excluded from the definition of "mammals." -
In this patent infringement case, the court had found Plaintiff's patent to be unenforceable on an earlier motion f. -
Publication from the Food and Drug Administration which explains Title II of the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act under which certain patent holders have the opportunity to extend the terms of certain patents. -
Patent litigation is not for the faint of heart as it carries tremendous risk and reward. Typically, patent litigants are "betting the company." The stakes are high: one case awarded almost $1 billion in damages. The successful patent-owner almost always secures a court order prohibiting further infringement, which removes a competitor from the market the very next day. -
As appreciation of the importance of traditional knowledge and folklore, and the fruits thereof, grows on a worldwide scale, the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional knowledge-derived property as intellectual property (IP) has come under scrutiny. Nations are becoming increasingly protective of their natural resources. -
On March 7, the FTC announced its settlement of claims against Bristol Myers Squibb ("Bristol") for employing patent listings in the FDA's "Orange Book" to delay the entry of generic competitors for three of Bristol's brand name pharmaceutical products. The settlement is the latest in a series of initiatives by the agency aimed at preventing misuse of Hatch-Waxman Act proceedings to forestall competition in the pharmaceutical markets —and yet another sign that protecting generic entry and expansion is serious business to the FTC. -
By all accounts, David and Gregory Chudnovsky are brilliant number theorists. Their quest to calculate pi to the greatest number of decimal places was warmly chronicled in a long New Yorker profile in 1992 titled "The Mountains of Pi." Three years later, New York Magazine ranked the Chudnovskys among the 100 smartest New Yorkers. And two years after that, Esquire included the brothers (as a unit) in a grouping of "The 100 Best People in the World." The brothers have all sorts of inventions worthy of both patent protection and commercialization. There is only one problem. They are not fans of the patent system and are reluctant capitalists. -
This guide provides a seven step strategy for conducting a patent search.