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In her State of the State address earlier this month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposed a significant expansion of New York’s consumer protection laws.

The so-called “Lead Compound Analysis” is the primary legal framework for assessing chemical obviousness. Despite the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) initial apparent...

In a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision issued on April 16, 2021, in Ex parte  Bhalla, Luthra, Reid I, and Levason (Appeal 2021-001535, USSN 14/373,413), the PTAB was presented with the issue of the obviousness of an imaging agent comprising an  18F-labelled compound of a formula below, with the relevant moieties indicated. The main claim covered a moderate genus of compounds 1, and was rejected over a combination of three references. The PTAB noted that the rejection of the main ...