This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit affirms the PTAB’s finding that a prior art reference was publicly available before the filing date of a patent deemed obvious in light of that prior art; the Next Generation Entrepreneurship Corps Act is introduced into Congress to create a competitive fellowship program for U.S. entrepreneurs; the USPTO and India’s IP department sign a memorandum of understanding on collaborative examination and protection activities; the Federal Trade Commission’s Hatch-Waxman patent settlement report finds a low number of anticompetitive settlement agreements; Germany’s legislature approves a draft ratification bill for the Unified Patent Court; Amazon expands its IP Accelerator program for small- and medium-sized businesses throughout Europe; Chinese patent filing statistics show that Baidu owns the most AI patents of any Chinese company; and Hewlett Packard Enterprise announces plans to relocate its global headquarters from San Jose to Spring, Texas, near Houston.
Patent
- Enablement
- Fee Shifting
- Litigation
- What I’ll Be Watching for in the Amgen Oral Arguments
- A Dog’s Day in Court: Implications of the ‘Bad Spaniels’ Arguments on Parody Determinations and Noncommercial Use
- Other Barks & Bites for Friday, March 24: Non-DOCX Fee Delayed Further; SCOTUS Petition Says Hirshfeld’s Review of PTAB Decision Violated Federal Vacancies Reform Act; Moderna CEO Grilled by Senate Committee over COVID Vaccine Price Hike
- Bayh-Dole Opponents Slam-Dunked Once Again
- SCOTUS Skeptical that Bad Spaniels is Parody, But Questions Need to Overturn Rogers
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- What I’ll Be Watching for in the Amgen Oral Arguments
- A Dog’s Day in Court: Implications of the ‘Bad Spaniels’ Arguments on Parody Determinations and Noncommercial Use
- Other Barks & Bites for Friday, March 24: Non-DOCX Fee Delayed Further; SCOTUS Petition Says Hirshfeld’s Review of PTAB Decision Violated Federal Vacancies Reform Act; Moderna CEO Grilled by Senate Committee over COVID Vaccine Price Hike
- Bayh-Dole Opponents Slam-Dunked Once Again
- SCOTUS Skeptical that Bad Spaniels is Parody, But Questions Need to Overturn Rogers