The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has acknowledges that it might have been miscalculating patent term adjustment (PTA) for patents issued from 35 U.S.C. 371 national stage filings. Fish & Richardson and their pharmaceutical client Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) discovered a significant error in the manner by which the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) […]
The saga of the PTO’s rulemaking authority continued on March 20, 2009 when the Federal Circuit issued its 55 page decision in Tafas v. Doll holding that aside from the rule limiting continuations, the other rule changes were procedural in nature and the PTO does have the rule-making authority to implement the rules limiting the […]
President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate David J. Kappos as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. According to the press release: Mr. Kappos is Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property Law, for IBM Corporation. Based in Armonk, New York, […]
The US Patent & Trademark Office has released a beta test of its new web site. The beta site has a cleaner look than the original and should make navigation a little easier. From the press release: The new site has been redesigned to improve the look and feel, as well as to enhance the […]
The saga of the PTO’s rulemaking authority continued on March 20, 2009 when the Federal Circuit issued its 55 page decision in Tafas v. Doll holding that aside from the rule limiting continuations, the other rule changes were procedural in nature and the PTO does have the rule-making authority to implement the rules limiting the […]
The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has combined three patent interferences into a single interference between Sepracor and Wyeth. The interference was declared to determine the priority of inventorship of claims directed to racemic O-desmethylvenlafaxine (ODMV) succinate. Wyeth markets racemic ODMV succinate in the U.S. under […]
The Senate has confirmed Former Washington Gov. Gary Locke as Commerce Secretary by unanimous consent. The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth and operates the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). President Obama will now be looking to choose an Under Secretary of […]
Served Up Daily
Editor-in-Chief Barista Stephen Jenei is a patent attorney and Owner of Jenei LLC. When not serving up patent chat over a steaming cup of java, he's handling a diverse intellectual property practice in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and chemical fields. More info @ Jenei LLC
