Stay updated with breaking news from Acromed Corp. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
In its appeal from an adverse decision on priority by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in Interference No. 106,115 (directed to CRISPR-mediated gene editing), Junior Party the...
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (like its predecessor, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences or BPAI) occasionally renders an opinion having the tendency to raise an eyebrow...
Regular readers know that, after receiving a useful guest post on Iowa learned intermediary law, we asked our readers if they would like to prepare…
Background The patent statute recognizes that an invention may be jointly invented, however, there is no definition of inventorship in the patent statute. For this reason, the courts have been left to determine what constitutes sufficient contribution to an invention to qualify one for inventorship. 35 U.S.C. § 116 (2018) states: Inventors may apply for a patent jointly even though (1) they did not physically work together or at the same time, (2) each did not make the same type of amount or contribution, or (3) each did not make a contribution to the subject matter of every claim of the pat...