Celebrating 30 years of Biotechnology Innovation: From Diamond v. Chakrabarty to Today Thursday June 30, 2011 9:00-11:00AM Walter E. Washington Convention Center Room 102AB This event co-sponsored by the US Patent and Trademark Office, The Biotechnology Industry Organization and the Biojudiciary Project will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the issuance of the patent from the […]
H.R. 1249, the America Invents Act, passed the House today with bipartisan support. The Senate passed its version of the bill (S. 23) on March 8th by a vote of 95 to 5. Representative Mike Michaud (D-ME) voted in favor of the bill saying: “We need to make it easier for companies to innovate and […]
Over 150 companies, associations, venture capitalists, unions, universities and innovation-focused entities called on Congress to support keeping the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office funding provisions in H.R. 1249, “The America Invents Act.” Section 22 of the Judiciary Committee reported bill creates a mandatory revolving fund in the Treasury to retain all user fees collected by […]
It looks like the Patent Reform Act is no longer a done deal. Tuesday afternoon, Rep. Harold Rogers (Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee) and Rep. Paul Ryan (Chairman of Budget) wrote a letter to Rep. Lamar Smith (Chairman of the Judiciary) insisting on maintaining the power of these two committees to control the Patent […]
On October 19, 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released a “Notice of Change to Docketing of Requests for Continued Examination.” The Notice indicated that requests for continued examination (RCEs) filed on or after November 15, 2009 will be placed on the examiner’s “Special New” application docket instead of the examiner’s amended docket. An […]
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is implementing a pilot program (Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program) in which an applicant can request a twelve-month time period to pay certain fees and to reply to a Notice to File Missing Parts of Nonprovisional Application. Under the Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program, applicant must file […]
The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) an amicus curiae brief in the AMP v. USPTO and Myriad Genetics case, a lawsuit challenging patents covering diagnostic tests for mutations in genes. In the district court, the University of Utah and Myriad Genetics lost in a U.S. court ruling over patents for detecting inherited breast cancer related […]
Earlier, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), and a whole gaggle of others filed a lawsuit challenging patents covering diagnostic tests for mutations in genes. Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. On March 29, 2010, the University of Utah and Myriad […]
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