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Fish Richardson Holds Litigation Seminar in Israel
Fish Richardson and S. T. Colb, prominent US and Israeli patent attorney firms respectively, joined forces to hold an event on US Patent Litigation Developments today. It being 2 January 2011, this was...
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Israel and US Patent Offices Announce a Superhighway – But so what???
I read in the weekend edition of Israel’s Mekor Rishon newspaper that the USPTO and the IPO have announced a super-highway, designed to streamline patent examination. The author of the article, Ori...
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Viagra patent holds up
Teva’s challenge to the validity of Pfizer’s patent for Viagra was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of Norfolk, Virginia, in a 110 page opinion. “Teva has not shown by clear and...
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JMB, Factor & Co Hosts Seminar on Medical Device and Life Sciences Patent...
This afternoon, JMB, Factor & Co. held a seminar on patenting medical device patents. I spoke about using FDA approval as a back door method of enforcing therapeutic patents in the US. My...
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America Invents, and you can learn about it in Israel!
Bar Ilan university are hosting a full day conference on 4 January 2012 to debate the ramifications of the changes in the US Patent Law wrought by the America Invents Act. To register, or to receive...
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America Invents at Bar Ilan University
Yesterday, I had the privilege to attend a very well run and well constructed full day program dedicated to the America Invents Act. The highlight of the program, was, without a doubt, a lecture by...
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Rules for Patent Drafting
There are many books that relate to claim drafting. Rules of Patent Drafting by Joseph Root is different in that it relates to drafting patent specifications, not merely the claims. Its premise is...
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Book Review: The Essentials of Patent Claim Drafting
The Essentials of Patent Claim Drafting by Morgan D. Rosenberg is a straightforward practical guide to drafting claims, aimed at the beginner. To the extent that one can learn to draft claims from a...
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Seminar – Recent Changes in US and Israel Patent Law
There have been some substantive changes to both the Israel and US patent law and practice recently. In the US, there is now a procedure for oppositions. Israel applications now publish before...
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Hal Novick With Crackers!
Simon Kay of Pioneer IP Consulting Ltd, a leading Israel Boutique IP Firm sponsored a seminar to Israel Businessmen on Changes to US Patent Law under the American Invents Act, and on US trademark law....
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Finnegan, begin again!
For those of you who missed the Finnegan play on 3rd July 2013, by attending the AIPA general meeting or other prior commitments, there is a second showing on 4th July 2013 at 6:30 PM in Bet Hel...
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Given Imaging Loses in Prosecution, on Appeal to Board of Appeals, and then...
Given Imaging is an Israeli technology company that has developed a camera on pill. Essentially, the patient swallows the camera which images the digestive tract as it passes through, prior to being...
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USPTO Enters the 21st Century
Having criticized the Israel Patent Office for not updating their web-based services and given the USPTO as an example where one can make on line payments that are registered in the system without...
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USPTO offering reduced price searches for PCT applications filed by small and...
As of 1 January 2013, the USPTO will be offering reduced price searches for PCT applications filed by small and micro-entities. The cost of the International Search Report will be $2080 for regular...
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Super Dooper Patent Prosecution Highway
Israel and 17 other examining authorities have now set up a Global Patent Prosecution Highway. The 17 offices involved in the GPPH pilot are IP Australia (IP Australia), Canadian Intellectual Property...
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Hillel House Hosting BDS Event – trademark implications
Last Friday’s Jerusalem Post had an article concerning a Hillel House hosting a speaker calling for boycotting Israeli goods and divesting, due to the plight of the Palestinians. Essentially,...
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Judge Randal Rader of the Court of Appeals of the US Federal Circuit Resigns...
The following is largely cribbed from the IPKAT. Chief Judge Randall R Rader of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has resigned from his role as the head of the CAFC. On Friday,...
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Submitting Corresponding European File Wrapper In Israel Patent Opposition...
DSM filed Israel Patent Application Number 142789 for high directional – fibers. The patent claimed priority from Dutch Patent NE 1010413 from 28 October 1998. The patent covers the fibers themselves...
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PCT Filing Fee Reductions in January 2015
The official fees incurred for filing, prosecuting, registering and renewing patents, designs and trademarks in Israel are linked to the cost of living index. Twice a year, on 1 January and on 1 June,...
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PCZL (Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer LLP) Appeals Source Vagabond Decision...
Background Source Vagabond is one of a number of companies making personal portable water supplies that are known in Israel as Shlookers – a shlook being slang Hebrew for a sip. On August 2, 2011,...
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