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The PPH Program at the USPTO: Favorable Stats Don’t Alleviate Big Risks

October 30, 2019

Since 2006, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has participated in the Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program (the PPH Program). Generally, the program is designed to accelerate examination of…

District of Delaware Makes it Harder to Corner the Market on Antibody Patents in MorphoSys v. Janssen

January 31, 2019

Stone Law, P.C.

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Patents covering an antibody are often claimed by the antibody’s function (the residues where it binds to the antigen) rather than its structure (amino-acid sequence). This tactic can successfully cast…

How to Write a Patent Application

August 11, 2018

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Writing a patent application is not as easy as many think. Indeed, the concept of usefully describing the invention, which on its face seems easy enough to understand, is not…

Which Invalidity Avenue to Take: Inter Partes Review Verses Post-Grant Review

July 31, 2018

Stone Law, P.C.

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) provides invalidity tools via inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR), but which route is better? … PGRs are estimated to…

Patent Enablement: Patenting Tropical Storms

March 10, 2014

Stone Law, P.C.

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On Tuesday, February 25 2014, the Federal Circuit upheld a decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to deny a method patent for a tropical hurricane control…