John J. Doll, Commissioner for Patents, US Patent & Trademark Office, talked today at the BIO Intellectual Property Counsel Committee’s Fall Conference and Committee Meeting, a group with a very keen sense of the importance of patents. He livened up the discussion in extolling that “We [the Patent Office] don’t have a standard so we’d […]

In a session on Case Law Updates, a panel discussion at the the BIO Intellectual Property Counsel Committee’s Fall Conference and Committee Meeting brought up that there was previously a lot of attention on infringement but lately it has been off radar except for joint joint infringement. Joint infringement comes up as a big issue […]

In a session on Case Law Updates at the the BIO Intellectual Property Counsel Committee’s Fall Conference and Committee Meeting, Chad Shear led a panel discussion with John Dragseth and Dr. John Garvish through a discussion of Bilski and how we got to Bilski.  The case, involved a patent application seeking exclusive rights to a […]