5th Annual Developing IP Strategies for Crystalline Forms is to be held November 09 – 11, 2009, at the Regus Conference Centre, 1 Broadgate Circus, London. Now, Patent Baristas readers can get an extra 10% off by using discount code BLOG when registering and can access our free resource centre containing past presentations from the […]

Congress is busy doing what it does best. That is, taking a massive, overly-convoluted piece of legislation and making it more complex with amendments. And so it is with the “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009” bill (H.R. 3200, 1018 pages and counting). After adding in hundreds of amendments that never seem thoughtfully considered […]

After McNeil appealed obviousness rejections to the US Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, the Board dismissed the whole business as filed in an untimely manner. McNeil took the case to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit who sided with them that the appeal was timely and the […]

In a combined proceeding in which a third person sought re-examination of an issued patent (Re-examination No. 90/005,892) and the patentee sought re-issue of the patent to broaden the claims, the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences held the patent claims invalid on multiple grounds, including that they would […]