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Tag Archives: USPTO
BIO Members Receive Patents for Humanity Award
The United States Patent and Trademark Office announced the winners of the Patents for Humanity awards. “The Patents for Humanity is a competition recognizing patent owners and licensees who address global challenges in health and standards of living.” The USPTO website provides this background on the BIO member winners: “Gilead Sciences “Of the 35 million people worldwide suffering from HIV, 95% live in developing countries. Gilead produces antiretroviral therapies for the treatment of HIV. They Read More >
SIPO Examiner Workshop: Biotech Patent Practices in the U.S., China and Japan
The biotechnology industry is an invention-intensive industry that relies heavily on the protection of intellectual property, especially patent rights. Patent protection is territorial, and patent practice varies in different jurisdictions. Many foreign biotech companies continue to look at China as an important emerging market, and they increasingly file patent applications in China to develop their global patent portfolios. At the same time, China has made biotechnology one of the eight strategic new technology focuses in Read More >
USPTO Blogpost Brings Mayo Down to Earth
The United States Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos posted a blogpost called “Some Thoughts on Patentability” which discusses a recent Federal Circuit decision in CLS Bank International v. Alice Corporation and the lessons we should learn from the Federal Circuit. “Based on my experience, I appreciate the wisdom of the court’s discussion relating to resolving disputed claims by focusing initially on patentability requirements of § 102, 103, and 112, rather than § 101. Read More >
Patents for Humanity
By David Kappos, Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Originally Published on USPTO Director’s Forum Sweeping revolutions in technology continue to fundamentally redefine the way we connect with one another and interact with the world. Today, an entrepreneur can do business with a remote village across an ocean just as quickly as a student in Boston can video-conference with a professor in Beijing. Political rallies can be organized by the click of Read More >
PTO Genetic Testing Study: What’s Patents Got to Do with It
The USPTO held a hearing on February 16 to collect testimony from interested parties to discuss factors affecting the availability of confirmatory, or second opinion, genetic testing. However, the hearing quickly devolved into testimonies addressing so called ‘gene patents’ and genetic testing more broadly. Dr. Hans Sauer testified on behalf of BIO and first raised the question whether there is in fact patient demand for an ‘independent second opinion genetic test.’ While doctors would likely Read More >
