The system behind global standards, such as 5G, is one of the great commercial success stories of the modern industrial age. The process of collaboration, which brings together innovators from around the world, advances technologies and helps deliver ever-more sophisticated devices to consumers. Standardized technologies should be supported by balanced IP rights, but they unfortunately face an increasingly uncertain policy…
Yesterday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) held a “public listening session” to hear from industry leaders on the topic of standard essential patents. The event was specifically related to the USPTO’s effort to obtain stakeholder input on questions regarding proposed international standards that were presented in a recent Federal Register Notice, as well as strategies identified in the White House’s National Standards Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies.
Just two days after hundreds in the intellectual property community stood for U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Judge Pauline Newman following her thoughtfully delivered words at IPWatchdog LIVE 2023, the CAFC’s Judicial Council released a 375-page Order suspending Judge Newman from all cases. The Council also released a slew of other documents today, including Newman’s August 31 response to the initial recommendation that she be suspended.
Solid-form patents provide drug substance patent protection for many pharmaceutical small molecule programs. Many of the claims of such patents are drawn narrowly to cover the specific crystal form of the corresponding marketed drug product. However, solid form screens often reveal multiple solid forms of an API and, as with traditional chemical structure claims, the resulting data may warrant genus…
In a rapidly evolving technical and IP landscape, companies seeking protection for emerging innovations must continually monitor new developments that can pose critical threats to their portfolios and patent portfolio. Keeping a close eye on changes to pending applications from competitors, legal action on related similar patents, emerging prior art, and new publications is a critical practice for those seeking…