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Ex parte Ho – Burden Shifting in s.101 Rejections
In Judge Plager’s concurrence-in-part in Interval Licensing v. AOL, Inc., he describes the “small puzzle” present in the Mayo/Alice analysis of a claim identified as directed to an abstract idea: “[I]f a court, after reviewing challenged claims in light of … Continue reading
Posted in Patent Eligible Subject Matter
Tagged Interval Licensing v. AOL, Judge Plager, Mayo/Alice, PTAB, s. 101, USPTO, Warren Wossner
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USPTO Post-Prosecution Pilot Program Launches
A guest post from Edward Sandor, attorney at Schwegman. The Post-Prosecution Pilot Program (P3) launched at the USPTO Monday, combining features of the AFCP 2.0 and Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Pilot programs, with the notable addition of Applicant participation in the process. … Continue reading
Posted in USPTO Practice and Policy
Tagged intellectual property, ip, Patent Law, patents, USPTO, Warren Woessner
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USPTO will “Fast Track” Cancer Immunotherapy Applications
On June 29, 2016, Director Lee promulgated rules to implement a one-year pilot program to effectively grant “Fast Track” status to applications with at least one claim to treating cancer using immunotherapy. (A copy of this document can be found … Continue reading
Same-Day Continuing Applications are Co-pending under s. 120
The outcome of this question of statutory construction was not really in doubt, given the fact that an adverse holding could invalidate thousands of patents which needed same-day copendency to avoid intervening prior art. Immersion Corp. v. HTC Corp., Appeal no. … Continue reading