CAFC re: Recapture During a Broadening Reissue; and CAFC re: Expert Witnesses and Obviousness

SoCal IP Law Institute MCLE meeting of August 15, 2022 - CAFC re: Recapture During a Broadening Reissue; and CAFC re: Expert Witnesses and Obviousness. Please join us on Monday, August 15, 2022 at Noon , where we will discuss CAFC re: Recapture During a Broadening Reissue; and CAFC re: Expert Witnesses and Obviousness. For [...]

Boardside Chats from the PTAB

The USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) handles five kinds of cases: 1. Appeals by patent applicants when an examiner has rejected their application at least twice.2. Appeals by patent owners in reexaminations3. Inter parte reviews (IPRs)4. Post Grant Reviews (PGRs)5. Covered Business Method Patent Reviews (CBMs) In support of the PTAB's public outreach [...]

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Analogous Prior Art & Moderna-NIH Patent conflict

Please join us on Monday, March 14, 2022 at 12:00 pm, where we will discuss the concept of Analogous Prior Art in Obviousness rejections, as well as delve into the issues in the Moderna-NIH conflict over Covid vaccine patent rights. Please see Analogous Prior Art slides here. Please see Moderna-NIH slides here, and patent filing [...]

SoCal IP Institute meeting

For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, February 8, 2021 we will discuss the following In re Mohapatra (CAFC, Feb. 5, 2021) (Opinion here) (Patent App Pub here) Federal Circuit finds claims are directed to the abstract idea. Mohapatra’s innovation was to create a more dynamic security code than the 3-4 digit code [...]

SoCal IP Institute :: June 4, 2012 :: Standard of Review for Obviousness and Hindsight Bias

We will be discussing two Federal Circuit cases during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, June 4, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. Plasmart v. Kappos & Wang, Case No. 2011-1570 (Fed. Cir. May 22, 2012) (attached). Appellee sells the TwistCar, a scooter with a handlebar that is twisted to propel the scooter. [...]

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