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	<title>Biotechnology Patent Law Blog &#124; Patents4Life by Warren Woessner &#187; Patent Law</title>
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		<title>Supplemental Examination Decision Tree &#8211; Lots of Dead Branches?</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2012/01/supplemental-examination-decision-tree-lots-of-dead-branches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AIA Patent Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I wish it were that simple, but I keep trying to conjure examples that would lead me to use supplemental examination to “purge inequitable conduct (IC)” that I discover after my patent issues, and which could provide the basis for a successful IC attack on the patent. (Even the Office doesn’t presume that charges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTO Proposes Supplemental Examination Rules – Extremely Expensive and Incredibly Complex</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2012/01/pto-proposes-supplemental-examination-rules-%e2%80%93-extremely-expensive-and-incredibly-complex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AIA Patent Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America Invents Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Examination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Therasense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 25, 2012, the USPTO published proposed rules to implement the supplemental examination provisions of the America Invents Act (“AIA”). This procedure is intended to be utilized by patent owners to “clean up” patents of iffy validity before, say, asserting them in litigation or selling them. 77 Fed. Reg. 3666. This provision has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Edition of EP/UK Guide to Patent Law Published</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2012/01/new-edition-of-epuk-guide-to-patent-law-published/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patents4life.com/2012/01/new-edition-of-epuk-guide-to-patent-law-published/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Int'l Practice and Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIPA Guide to the Patent Acts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys recently published the 7th edition of the CIPA “Guide to the Patent Acts”. This treatise is essential for practitioners seeking to track the correspondence between central themes of US and UK/EP patent law, such as patentable subject matter, utility (as we would call it),  enablement and the written description [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Blog On AIA Aims For Co-Op Approach</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2012/01/new-blog-on-aia-aims-for-co-op-approach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patents4life.com/2012/01/new-blog-on-aia-aims-for-co-op-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AIA Patent Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent Reform Legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biotechnology news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intellectual property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IP law tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leonard street dienard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schwegman Lundberg Woessner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Woessner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[william mitchell law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With a tidal wave of proposed regulations implementing the AIA poised to hit IP practitioners – ready or not – it seemed worthwhile to point out a new “Blawg” recently launched to help keep our heads above the murky legal waters to come. My firm, Schwegman Lundberg &#38; Woessner, in cooperation with the IP group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Rulings of the European Court of Justice on SPCs</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2012/01/recent-rulings-of-the-european-court-of-justice-on-spcs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patents4life.com/2012/01/recent-rulings-of-the-european-court-of-justice-on-spcs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EP and UK Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biotechnology news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dhs patentanwalts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Stefan Danner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attached you will find the newsletter from DHS Patentanwalts GmbH, provided to us by Dr. Stefan Danner. In the last few months, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has handed down several decisions relating to the grant and validity of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs; i.e. patent term extensions). Thereof, the following rulings are generally considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 2011 IP Stories on Patents4Life</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/12/top-2011-ip-stories-on-patents4life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/12/top-2011-ip-stories-on-patents4life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America Invents Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bayh-Dole Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biotechnology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biotechnology law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biotechnology news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caraco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[court of appeals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Stefan Danner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European patent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Circuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intellectual property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microsoft v i4i]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myriad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Cole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prometheus v. Mayo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saint-gobain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schutz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sherley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanford v Roche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a day or two looking back over the breaking IP news that resulted in posts on Patents4Life. I wrote most of them, but want to take a pause to thank regular contributors Paul Cole, Ron Schutz and Stefan Danner for their help. Patents4Life was originally intended to be a “blawg” focused on IP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMP Petitions for Cert. and A Look Back</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/12/amp-petitions-for-cert-and-a-look-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/12/amp-petitions-for-cert-and-a-look-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Patentable Subject Matter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACLU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Association of Molecular Pathology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biotechnology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biotechnology law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biotechnology news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BRCA DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chakrabarty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diagnostic methods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Circuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myriad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myriad lawsuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patent attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) has petitioned the Supreme Court to review the Fed. Cir.’s opinion of July 29th, that isolated BRCA DNA sequences are patentable subject matter. Its brief (a copy available at the end of this post) contains little that is new in the way of argumentation, and relies heavily on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIO&#8217;s Modest Proposal &#8211; Eliminate Rule 56</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/12/bios-modest-proposal-eliminate-rule-56/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/12/bios-modest-proposal-eliminate-rule-56/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inequitable Conduct/Rule 56]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biotechnology law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biotechnology news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Circuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intellectual property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IP law tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rule 56]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Warren Woessner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BIO recently sent Director Kappos 13 pages of comments on the PTO&#8217;s proposed revisions to 37 C.F.R. §1.56(b). (A copy of the comments is available at the end of this post.) BIO clearly is struggling to reconcile the differing views  of its members, and mostly succeeds. The comments give a good background on the development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biotech IP Newsletters</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/12/biotech-ip-newsletters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/12/biotech-ip-newsletters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Non-U.S. Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Stefan Danner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intellectual property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Woessner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Find below biotech IP newsletters recently provided by Dr. Stefan Danner. SPCs For Combination Products &#8211; Opinion Of The Advocate General EPO Ruling On The Patentability Of Medical Treatments By Therapy &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Intensive Patent Law Training Seminar</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/12/intensive-patent-law-training-seminar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/12/intensive-patent-law-training-seminar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conferences and Classes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intellectual property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IP law tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patents]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Course Announcement: Intensive Patent Law Training Seminar February 22-24, 2012 New York City The Chisum Patent Academy is pleased to accept registrations for our next seminar, to be held on February 22-24, 2012 in New York City.  Our venue is the American Elm conference room (Suite 503) of the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel, 36 Central Park [...]]]></description>
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