• Reconsidering Accelerated Examination — While It’s Still Here

    Law360 (February 12, 2018, 1:05 PM EST) — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently indicated that its accelerated examination program (AE) could be terminated and requested public input. There were only a few responses, some pro and some con.[1] To date, no changes have been made and, …

     
  • Entry-Level Marketing Assistant for Intellectual Property Law Firm

    For well over a century, Fish & Richardson has been winning cases worth billions in controversy – often by making new law – for the world’s most innovative and influential technology leaders….

     
  • Damages and Profits?

    See, e.g., Ronen Avraham’s recent article arguing for pain-and-suffering damages in patent cases (a view I don’t particularly share, however), which I mentioned here , and some of my previous posts on damages for “moral prejudice” in patent law (see, e.g., here and here). So the issue Mr. Brodsky …

     
  • How to know if I should patent my product

    The usual answer is no, you should not. Just statistically speaking. Most patents are useless expenses, destined to go nowhere. So approach it with prejudice. Still look into it. But the presumption should be against it. Next question is, can you?…

     
  • If there is public copyright made, can someone else patent the idea as theirs?

    Patents protect inventions and processes from being copied by others without the inventor’s permission. Ideas do not have such protection. People are are permitted to take the same basic idea, regardless of who came up with that idea, and implement it as different creative works or inventions so long as …

     
  • Pornhub is still hosting ‘deepfake’ porn with millions of views, despite promise to ban

    “There’s no pornographic picture of the actual individual being released,” Jonathan Masur, a professor who specializes in patent and technology law at the University of Chicago Law School, told Mashable earlier this month. “It’s just the individual’s face on someone else’s body.” Apart from the obvious …

     
  • Ropes & Gray appoints chair of life sciences IP group

    Global law firm Ropes & Gray has welcomed Filko Prugo to its New York office as partner and chair of the life sciences IP practice. Prugo has a background in chemistry and biotechnology, and has 20 years’ experience working with biopharmaceutical companies, including Novartis, Sanofi, and …

     
  • Anti-Aging Patent Application Filed; Exclusive Commercial Rights to Premier Biomedical, Inc.

    Anti-Aging Patent Application Filed; Exclusive Commercial Rights to Premier Biomedical, Inc.  GlobeNewswire (press release) Full coverage

     
  • California intellectual property law

    Discover and research the 2 Intellectual Property Law law schools in California with Noodle. TIME: 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM LOCATION: Andrei’s Conscious Cuisine, 2607 Main Street, Irvine, CA 92614. Senate. C. com) is an intellectual property law firm based in Berkeley, CA focusing on …

     
  • A catalyst for change

    In particular, it fully implemented the MAH regime, accepted overseas clinical data and strengthened the patent and data protection regime. … the CFDA published the draft versions of the Drug Administration Law (the Law) and Administrative Measures for Drug Registration (the Measures), both of which …