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Fed. Cir. Holds Provisionals Are U.S. Filings For 102(E)

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Warren Woessner

In case you wondered if this was a settled question in the ever-shifting world of section 102, yesterday, In re Giacomini, (Rader, C.J.), (copy at end of post) the panel held that the effective U.S. filing date of a U.S. patent … Continue reading →

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Are Abstract Ideas Not Actually Abstract?

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Warren Woessner

The following post is from Jim Hallenbeck of Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner. The disposition of Bilski rested on a holding that Bilski’s claims were directed to an abstract idea – hedging. (Decision at end of post.) The root case for … Continue reading →

Posted in Patent Eligible Subject Matter | Tagged Bilski, intellectual property, ip, jim Hallenbeck, Patent Law, USPTO | 2 Comments

Prometheus v. Mayo and Classen v. Biogen Sent Back to Federal Circuit

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Warren Woessner

Not unexpectedly, today the Supreme Court granted cert. in Prometheus v. Mayo, (09-490) vacated, and remanded to the Fed. Cir. for reconsideration in view of Bilski v. Kappos, decided yesterday. While this clears the Court’s collective desk, I don’t … Continue reading →

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Collins On Human Genome Project – “We’ve Only Just Begun”

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Warren Woessner

In a Reuters story posted yesterday, Francis Collins, one of the directors of the Human Genome Project, was asked if the Project had lived up to the hype that accompanied the sequencing of the entire human genome ten years ago. … Continue reading →