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Showing posts with label 102. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 102. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Helsinn Argument Recap: Did the AIA Change the Meaning of Patent Law's "On Sale" Bar?

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As Michael previewed this morning, the Supreme Court heard argument today in Helsinn v. Teva , which is focused on the post-America Invents...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

How Important is Helsinn?

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In honor of the oral argument in Helsinn today, I thought I would blog about a study that questions its importance. For those unaware, the ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Judging Patents by their Rejection Use

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The quest for an objective measure of patent quality continues. Scholars have attempted many, many ways to calculate such value, including c...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

The Uneasy Case for Ariosa Diagnostics v. Illumina

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The Supreme Court's request for views from the Solicitor General in Ariosa Diagnostics v. Illumina has renewed interest in this nerdy is...
Monday, January 22, 2018

What happened in patent law in the past year?

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Last Thursday I gave a 25-min recap patent law update to judges and practitioners at the Northern District Practice Program Patent Law Sympo...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Helsinn v. Teva Oral Argument Recap

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In March, I posted about an amicus brief filed by 42 IP profs in Helsinn v. Teva , which argued that contrary to the district court's o...
Monday, March 14, 2016

42 IP Profs: AIA Didn't Change Meaning of "On Sale" and "Public Use" in § 102

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Mark Lemley and Rob Merges just filed a Federal Circuit amicus brief on behalf of 42 IP professors in Helsinn v. Teva , arguing that the AI...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Roin on Unpatentable Drugs

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Unpatentable Drugs and the Standards of Patentability , by Ben Roin (Harvard Law), is older than most articles I blog about (published in 2...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Donald Chisum: Priority Among Competing Patent Applicants Under the America Invents Act

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How will the “First Inventor to File” provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA) impact patent applications filed after the March 16, 2013 ...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

Kara Swanson: Feminism, Corsets, and IP

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This is a guest post by Allison Tait, a Yale 3L with a Yale Ph.D. in French literature. Allison writes about women's property and marria...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Mark Lemley: Point of Novelty

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Who knew that there were so many novel things to say about novelty! In an earlier post, I described Sean Seymore's argument that the nov...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Sean Seymore on Novelty and Disclosure

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Coming to patent law from physics, I have been interested in patent doctrines that seem crazy when I try to explain them to my physics frien...