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With the passage of the America Invents Act (AIA), the U.S. moved from a First-To-Invent system to a First-Inventor-To-File system in order to harmonize the […]

HG’s Patent Owner win in IPR2018-00752 has been recognized in #1 PTAB development of 2018, by the Patents Post Grant.

Check out Drew Schulte’s latest Law 360 article, an expert analysis on coordinating patent strategies across PTAB and EPO.

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The PTAB declined to institute Inter Partes Review on U.S. Patent No. 6,183,841 in NHK Spring Co., Ltd. v. Intri-Plex Techs., Inc., IPR2018-00752. The PTAB agreed under 325(d) that the same prior art from prosecution was merely repackaged for the IPR and also considered the relative progress of a co-pending District Court case under 314(a).

The answer doesn’t have to be increased spending. Organizations should aim to train their themselves to understand their needs and goals related to patent protection, rather than lose ground to tech companies.

The White Paper was produced by UK Government to propose a relationship between the UK and the EU post-Brexit. But what does it mean for the UPC?

Peter Hale named the one and only Gold band (highest recommended) UK patent prosecutor, as well as highly recommended for European Patent prosecution.

Four years after the U.S. Supreme Court shook the patent world with its string of subject matter eligibility cases, the U.S. patent system still lacks firm footing on what constitutes patent eligible subject matter.

The UK has ratified the UPC Agreement – this is a good thing for the UPC. However, the stumbling block for the UK’s continued membership of the UPC is that the UPC is subject to the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) which is a no-no for the UK post-Brexit.