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News Bytes - June 6, 2013

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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June 6 2013

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office creates the After Final Consideration Pilot Program 2.0 which modifies and extends a program designed to

Science publisher claims submission of prior art to USPTO involves copyright infringement

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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March 15 2012

A New Jersey-based publishing company has filed copyright infringement lawsuits in federal courts in two states against law firms that submitted citations to or copies of copyrighted articles from scientific journals to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) with their clients’ patent applications

Myriad litigants seek rehearing, stalling case before Federal Circuit panel

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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September 22 2011

Court watchers were reportedly surprised that both sides to litigation involving the patentability of genetic discoveries filed petitions for a rehearing before the divided Federal Circuit Court of Appeals panel that issued a ruling on the matter in July 2011

Federal Circuit refuses to consider standingmootness issue in Myriad Genetics

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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June 21 2012

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a non-precedential order declining Myriad Genetics’ invitation to revisit whether the plaintiff has standing, that is, a redressable legal interest in maintaining the lawsuit, and will thus consider, on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, whether isolated DNA claims and method claims are patent-eligible under Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 132 S. Ct. 1289 (2012

Study shows rise in biotech patent litigation

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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September 20 2012

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has released its “2012 Patent Litigation Study,” which shows that the 4,105 patent lawsuits filed in 2011 marked a high point and a 22-percent increase from the previous year

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Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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December 6 2012

Heads of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), European Patent Office and Japan Patent Officecollectively known as the Trilateral Offices confirm their commitment to eliminating unnecessary duplication of work, enhancing patent examination and quality, and working to ensure that stable patent rights can be granted smoothly and easily worldwide

Control at issue in split Federal Circuit ruling on joint infringement

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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April 21 2011

A divided Federal Circuit Court of Appeals panel, relying on recent precedent, has confirmed that "where the actions of multiple parties combine to perform every step of a claimed method, the claim is directly infringed only if one party exercises 'control or direction' over the entire process such that every step is attributable to the controlling party."

Federal Circuit’s patent infringement ruling conflicts with USPTO re-examination on validity

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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November 1 2012

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a request for an en banc rehearing by a medical-device patent holder which argued that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Board of Patent Appeals had effectively nullified a previous Federal Circuit decision on the validity of its patent

Genetic technologies settles infringement suit over non-DNA coding technology

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 2 2013

Genetic Technologies Ltd. (GTG) has reportedly settled a patent infringement lawsuit filed in late 2012 against PreventionGenetics. While the terms

Biotech trade group seeks USDA involvement in gene patents lawsuit

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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October 21 2010

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has asked U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to urge the Department of Justice, which is considering the federal government's position in litigation about patent protection for isolated DNA sequences, to "strongly defend the patentability of such basic biotech inventions."

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