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Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 12 Sep 2023
California Expands Prohibition Against Non-Competes
On September 1, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 699, which amends California Business & Professions Code Section 16600 to…
Lexology PRO | OECD, USA | 21 Oct 2022
New Privacy Shield boosts corporate confidence
Corporate privacy executives have said the latest iteration of the EU-US data transfer framework provides much-needed economic certainty and may spark innovation.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP | USA | 9 Aug 2021
A Conversation on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
In This Episode WilmerHale podcast co-hosts and Partners Brendan McGuire and John Walsh welcome Partner Brittany Amadi, who is joined by guests…
Wilson Elser | USA | 22 Apr 2020
Sharing IP Rights in the Fight Against COVID-19
The strength of a patent, the property right given to an inventor that allows him to exclude others from his invention, is a constant topic of debate…
Leigh Day | United Kingdom | 23 Aug 2019
Safety issues reported with Medtronic Pacemakers
In January 2019, Medtronic, a multinational medical technology company and producer of the devices, released an ‘Urgent Field Safety Notice’ alerting…
Knobbe Martens | USA | 25 Jan 2019
Barry v. Medtronic, Inc.
An invention is not “ready for patenting” to trigger a public use bar until the invention has been tested in a variety of settings and is known to…
Marshall Gerstein & Borun LLP | USA | 10 Sep 2018
No mandamus relief from shenanigan-less non-institution decision
Absent extraordinary circumstances, the Federal Circuit will not review Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions refusing to institute inter partes…
Jones Day | USA | 9 Aug 2018
Relevant Public, Not General Public, When Determining Availability of Printed Publication
On July 27, 2018, the Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB’s finding that Petitioner GoPro, Inc. failed to establish the public availability of an…
Ropes & Gray LLP | USA | 31 Jul 2018
Publication Need not be Indexed/Searchable to be Prior Art
Last week, I pointed out that the Federal Circuit faulted the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) for its narrow public accessibility analysis in…
Ropes & Gray LLP | USA | 26 Jul 2018
Printed Publications & The PTAB
Yesterday I highlighted a significant decision for Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) practitioners pertaining to Real-Party-In-Interest (RPI) and…
