Patent Baristas

I received a note from the USPTO asking if I could post a notice about needing volunteers for a Complex Work Units Pilot Program.  This is mainly for those that deal with complex chemical or mathmatical formulae. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking participants for a Complex Work Units (CWUs) Pilot […]

Patent Baristas has been featured in BlawgWorld 2007, an outstanding presentation of some of the top law blogs around the web in an eBlook format put together by Editor Sara Skiff, Publisher Neil Squillante and the eBook Team at TechnoLawyer. BlawgWorld 2007 is a compilation of exemplary posts from authoritative law blogs of various specialties […]

In a new paper “Confronting Myths and Myopia on the Road from Doha,” Daniel Cahoy, associate professor of business law at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, looks at recent patent compulsory licenses issued by Thailand in terms of balancing access and innovation in essential medicines. The WTO’s Doha round of trade negotiations expanded the […]

AstraZeneca’s patent on Toprol-XL® was found invalid after the CAFC affirmed a district court’s invalidity holding based on double patenting but vacated the district court’s inequitable conduct holding and remanded the case to see if the patent and another one should be held unenforceable. In re Metoprolol Succinate Patent Litigation, United States Court of Appeals […]

Yali Friedman, chief science office at New Economy Strategies and author of Building Biotechnology and the BiotechBlog, recently set out his picks for the top-5 must read blogs for keeping track of all the developments in biotechnology. The following blogs are his picks as best-in-class and should be an integral part of your daily read […]

Patent law is seldom full of drama so it is with great excitement that we watch the latest little interlude unfold. This one involves law, politics and intellectual property — often the staple of dramatic television shows. Our story starts back in April 2007, when Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez appointed Margaret J.A. Peterlin, formerly a […]

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, in Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., Ltd., No. 05-1492, drove another nail in the coffin of the doctrine of equivalents. This case — pending for almost twenty years and before the Supreme Court twice and twice at the CAFC en banc — looks at the scope […]

In a letter to Stephen S. McMillin, Deputy Director at the Office of Management and Budget, David Boundy of Cantor Fitzgerald expressed concerns of industry groups about the budget effects of the USPTO’s proposed rules on continuations and claims. The proposed regulations would limit an applicant’s ability to file no more than one continuation application. This […]