Further to the Sept. 22nd email, the fundamental problem with the American grace period is the different approach taken versus the European Patent Convention and the Japan Patent Law: In ...
Recently, this writer published a paper showing that the grace period may fail to save an inventor who publishes before filing. This is because the state of the art to ...
What is the impact of an inventor’s publication of his invention before filing which may be excused as “prior art” under the grace period? Under the literal wording of amended ...
Mel Williams was one of the many leading patent attorneys to graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the George Washington Law School. He served for twenty-five years at United Technologies ...
Ford Farabow was both an outstanding trial lawyer and a true gentleman. He was a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers who was internationally prominent as one of ...
Al Steinmetz grew up in Pennsylvania Dutch country and stayed in that state to earn his first degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He gained his J.D. from Seton Hall. ...
Yesterday in UCB, Inc. v. Yeda Research and Development Co., Ltd., __ F.3d __, 2016 WL 4698962 (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Newman, J.), the court reaffirmed the holding in Builders Concrete, Inc. v. Bremerton ...
Dick Winter was well known to the international patent community for his leadership of PCT International. He formed this venture following his 1985 retirement from corporate patent practice: spent most ...
Today in Sun v. United States, __ Fed. App’x __ (Fed. Cir. Sept. 6, 2016)(Newman, J.), in a pro se appeal, the panel paid inordinate attention to appellant’s frivolous cause ...
Emil Bednar was a Houston based patent attorney who had been a partner in Bednar & Jamison and, before his retirement, was a name partner in the firm of Vaden, ...