USA
- June 24 2022
In Ultra-Mek, Inc. v. United Furniture Industries, Inc., No. 1:18-cv-281, 2022 WL 1799235 (M.D.N.C. June 2, 2022), the United States District Court…
Global, USA
- June 22 2022
With the adoption of ST.26 as the new standard for sequence listings, the USPTO has revised its regulations. On May 20, 2022, the USPTO published a…
Global, USA
- June 15 2022
REMINDER: PCT-SAFE will no longer be supported by WIPO as of July 1, 2022. As such, one can no longer use PCT-SAFE to prep your RO-101 for submission…
USA
- June 10 2022
In United States Patent law, a patent may not be obtained on a claimed invention if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art…
USA
- June 8 2022
Recently, the USPTO announced a Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program. Under this pilot program, qualifying nonprovisional utility patent…
USA
- June 1 2022
PCT fees are payable to the receiving Office (RO) with which the international application is filed. The RO then transmits the search fee to the…
USA
- May 25 2022
The USPTO has a Patent Pendency Model (PPM); the PPM is a simulation tool that predicts patent production output based on actual historical data and…
Global, USA
- May 18 2022
The PCT Contingency Upload Service allows the applicant (or his or her agent) to upload PDF documents, including new international applications…
USA
- May 11 2022
Third-party observation service permits certain observations on an international application during the international phase if they believe that the…
USA
- May 6 2022
In Univ. Of Mass v. L’Oréal USA, Inc., No. 17-cv-0868 (D. Del. April 20, 2021), the district court judge granted L’Oréal’s motion for summary…