Tag Archives: Kubin

Happy Birthday Patents4Life – We Are 2!

Now some of them are not yet carved in judicial stone, being at various stages of appeal, but the sum of KSR,  Bilski (well, I guess it was more pro-patent than the strict M or T test it replaced with … Continue reading

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AUTM Panel To Address A “Myriad” Of Challenges

Robert S. MacWright, J.D., Ph.D., the new head of tech transfer at the Salk Institute, will moderate a panel at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) on March 1st in Las Vegas.  The panel, … Continue reading

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Federal Circuit Mows Down Bean Patent – Reading Between the Rows

On July 10, 2009, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in In re Pod-Ners, Appeal No. 2008-1492, affirmed the Board’s rejection of all of the claims of U.S. Pat. No. 5,894,079. The Board had rejected as obvious claims … Continue reading

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Kubin Analysis Continued

My last post began a rather selective analysis of In re Kubin, which the Federal Circuit decided on April 3, 2009 (see previous post for citations to this and related decisions). Kubin’s claims to DNA molecules encoding sequences including that … Continue reading

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