Patent Docs
This blawg "focuses on recent developments in biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent law. This weblog offers updates regarding changes in patent office rules and procedures that affect biotech/pharma patent prosecution, provides summaries of recent court decisions that impact biotech/pharma patent litigation and prosecution, and monitors newly filed biotech/pharma patent litigation."
Author: Donald Zuhn and Kevin Noonan are partners at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff in Chicago; Chris Singer and Sherri Oslick are associates at the firm. Jason Derry is an in-house patent attorney.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Patent Law • Science & Technology Law • Associate • In-house Lawyer • Partner
Recent Posts from Patent Docs
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LEI National CLE Conference
Law Education Institute, Inc. (LEI) will be holding the 27th Annual National CLE Conference on January 6-10, 2010 in Vail, Colorado. The Intellectual Property program of the conference, which will be held at the Vail…
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Amicus Briefs in Ariad v. Eli Lilly: Professor Christopher Holman
By Kevin E. Noonan -- Christopher M. Holman, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (and proprietor of Holman's Biotech IP Blog), has filed an amicus brief in support of neither party…
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Chisum on Patent Law Themes and Inequitable Conduct
By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier this month, Donald Chisum (at right), who for the past 31 years has authored the patent treatise Chisum on Patents, was in Chicago to give a luncheon presentation on recent…
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Patent Term Adjustment: 37 C.F.R. § 1.704(b)'s Three-Month Provision
By Sydney Kokjohn -- Patent practitioners concerned about patent term adjustment should pay careful attention to 37 C.F.R. § 1.704(b) concerning applicant delay, especially regarding the date of issue fee payments. This section provides that…
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Lilly Files Principal Brief for Ariad v. Lilly Rehearing En Banc
By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, Defendant-Appellant Eli Lilly & Co. filed its principal brief for the rehearing en banc of Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Eli Lilly & Co., which is scheduled for December 7th.…
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Court Report
By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases, and a few interesting cases will be selected for periodic monitoring. Monsanto Co. et al.…
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Conference & CLE Calendar
November 16-17, 2009 - Patent Litigation 2009 (Practising Law Institute) - New York, NY November 17-18, 2009 - Structuring, Negotiating, and Managing Pharma/Biotech Collaborative Agreements (American Conference Institute) - New York, NY November 19, 2009…
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Panel to Focus on Bilski Oral Argument - Updated
On Thursday, November 19, 2009, the American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and the Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will be offering a panel discussion entitled "Patentable Subject…
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If It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over, Today It's Over
By Kevin E. Noonan -- Chief Judge Paul Michel, writing for most of the en banc Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Judge Lourie took no part in the decision), today granted the joint…
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USPTO News: Public and Private PAIR Maintenance & Form Usage
By Christopher P. Singer -- PAIR Maintenance The USPTO posted a message on the front page of PAIR announcing that both Public and Private PAIR will be down for maintenance for part of this weekend.…