Last semester, I had the honour of interning at the CodeX Center for Legal Informatics at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. This internship was one of the many placements…
Tag: Mark Bowman
Inequitable Conduct in Canadian Patent Prosecution
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently provided an example of when patents will be invalidated due to inequitable conduct. Canadian patent law presently has no…
Military Tactics and Rock Star Patent Lawyers; the Patent System under Stress
Charles Duhigg and Steve Lohr, reporters for The New York Times, have published an insightful commentary on the current state of the patent system and, in particular, the state of…
U.S. Court of Appeals Stands Tall on the Subject of Gene Patents in the Wake of the Mayo v Prometheus Ruling
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in the case Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) and ACLU v. USPTO and Myriad Genetics (Myriad), held in August that…
Software Becomes that Much Harder to Patent in the United States
In the recent decision of Bancorp Services v Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has attempted to reconcile the…
The EPO Rules that Email Use will not Publically Disclose a Patent
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. has survived a challenge against its “Display Device” patent by DSM IP Assets B.V. in a ruling by the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent…