The Global Dossier Initiative is now up and running! It provides the American (or a counterpart overseas) Patent Examiner with the full prior art citations from parallel prosecution files of participating ...
Steve Penner was a patent attorney who was a partner at Lathrop & Gage in Boulder. He earned his legal degree at the University of Colorado, following an earlier career ...
As her time at the PTO winds down, the Hon. Michelle K. Lee has announced yet another “Roundtable” to deal with subject matter patent-eligibility, 81 Fed. Reg. 29463 (Nov. 14, ...
The previously distributed paper, “Cabining the 800 Pound Faux Stare Decisis Gorilla in the The Room of Patent-Eligibility”, has been revised to include a new section, §VI, Biotechnology Compositions, a Different Case, pp.40-42. (1) ...
(1) 2018 Conference, Save the Dates: We are pleased to announce that we are planning to have the 2018 Conference again at the Naples Beach Hotel February, 17-20, 2018. (2) ...
The Hon. Yoshinori Komiya (Commissioner, Japan Patent Office), the Hon. David J. Kappos (fmr. Under Sec. of Commerce), Federal Circuit judges and other leaders of the global patent community headline ...
Congratulations to Olivia Luk Bedi who has joined Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP as a partner! She formerly had practiced law with the late Ray Niro. Regards, Hal
Our recent email (as captioned above) may have created the impression that the PTO leadership has an anti-patentee attitude. Based upon an interview the Commissioner gave to the IPWatchdog this ...
On November 30th a seminar will be held in Tokyo that will deal with the role of Brazil in the global patent arena that will feature his Excellency, the Brazilian ...
Attached is an open letter to the leadership of the patent community. It challenges leaders to come forward at the dawn of a new Administration to change the direction of ...