Posts in Barks and Bites

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the U.S. Trade Representative issues its annual Special 301 Report listing the European Union as a Watch List nation for IP-related issues; Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) publicly oppose the Trump Administration’s decisions to cut federal funding for science and upend the National Science Board; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: Judge Alan Albright indicates that he will leave the Western District of Texas bench in August to re-enter private practice; Daren Tang is reelected as WIPO’s Director General; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit reverses a California district court’s denial of JMOL on trade secret and patent inventorship claims related to a cosmetic penile implant; the Senate Commerce Committee unanimously advances a bill to reauthorize the National Quantum Initiative; the Court of Justice for the European Union clarifies the scope of the pastiche exception for new works sampling copyrighted works to engage in artistic, critical or humorous dialogue; and more.

This week in Other Barks and Bites: the EU’s GPAI Signatory Taskforce convenes a second meeting to focus on copyright issues like mitigating infringing AI outputs; Meta and CoreWeave extend their AI cloud partnership through 2032 with a new deal worth $21 billion; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit rules that the omission of a co-inventor from a patent invalidates those patent claims if inventorship cannot be corrected; President Donald Trump signs an executive order placing 100% tariffs on drug companies who do not onshore production of patented pharmaceuticals; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: Merck enters into a $6.7 billion agreement to purchase Terns Pharma to improve its pipeline of experimental cancer therapies; the Federal Circuit says that common law principles prevented Ascendis Pharma from obtaining a mandatory stay in a second lawsuit including the same claims as a first complaint that was voluntarily dismissed; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit okays the U.S. International Trade Commission’s flexible analysis of the technical and economic prongs of the domestic industry requirement; the University of California tops the National Academy of Inventors list of top universities obtaining U.S. utility patents last year; the EU’s highest court rules that first requests for data access under the General Data Protection Regulation may be excessive if part of a systemic pattern of entering data claims for compensation; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the U.S. Department of Justice announces a six-figure settlement with a former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patent examiner over conflict of interest allegations for the second time in two weeks; USPTO Director John Squires issues a memo establishing U.S.-based operations as a discretionary denial consideration for petitions at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the World Intellectual Property Organization releases a study showing a slight uptick in international patent filings for the second straight year; Moderna stock rises nearly 10% on news of its patent infringement settlement over COVID-19 vaccine technology; the Federal Circuit says there is no per se rule against consideration of noninfringing features in a reasonable royalty determination; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the EU’s highest court holds that UK trademark rights cannot support opposition proceedings within the EU since the conclusion of the transitional period following Brexit; Merck shuffles its corporate structure in advance of major patent expirations for blockbuster drug Keytruda; the Federal Circuit finds genuine issues of material fact in an inequitable conduct and antitrust claim ruling handed out by the Southern District of Texas; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit concludes that expert testimony did not properly support the patent owner’s equivalency argument; the World Intellectual Property Organization issues a report showing that technology diffusion is spreading across the world at historically high rates; Boeing returns its defense and security headquarters to St. Louis from the D.C. region; Senators Thom Tillis and Adam Schiff send letters seeking better transparency measures in standards development and answers regarding a controversial restatement of copyright laws; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the U.S. Copyright Office issues a three-year study on small claims filed at the Copyright Claims Board; Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick publicly retreats from a proposed value-based tax on U.S. patent grants; the Federal Circuit issues several precedential decisions including one nixing Apple’s appeal of the NHK-Fintiv framework for discretionary denials of IPR proceedings; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) calls for a federal framework for deploying self-driving cars to replace the state patchwork negatively impacting U.S. dominance in the field; a major apparel industry organization releases a study showing that nearly half of counterfeit products test positively for high levels of hazardous chemicals; Novartis issues guidance calling for its first annual operating profit loss in a decade due to patent expirations to blockbusters Entresto and Xolair; and more.

Although IPWatchdog has the word “Dog” in it’s name and logo, the publication is in no way associated with dogs.  However, Gene and I have a shared love of dogs and have SIX German shorthaired pointers (3 sets of male/female siblings) ranging in age from 11 months to 6 years old.  We love dogs so much that when we posted our first job post in 2020, one of the job “requirements” was “must love dogs” (Plural).  Today, the majority of our employees share this same love of dogs and most have dogs of their own.