Recent Headlines in the IP World:
- Alex Baldwin: USITC Investigates Apple Watch Over Patent Claims (Source: WIPR)
- David Dayen: Chris Coons Working to Install Business-Friendly Candidate for Key Patent Position (Source: The American Prospect)
- Bhaswati Guha Majumder: Chinese Military Scientist Filed Patent For A Vaccine Soon After China Revealed Covid-19 Details in 2020 (Source: Yahoo News)
- Philip Blenkinsop: Resisting Patent Waiver, EU Submits Vaccine Plan to WTO (Source: Reuters)
- Brian Schwartz: Big Pharma Lobbyists Launch Campaign Against Biden Over Covid Vaccine Patent Waiver (Source: CNBC)
- Sonali Paul: U.S. Encouraged by Progress Toward Vaccine Patent Waiver (Source: Reuters)
- Emma Farge: Even After U.S. Shift, Opponents Resist COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver (Source: Reuters)
Commentary and Journal Articles:
- Atty. Joseph A. Farco: Patents and Trade Secrets – to Disclose or Conceal? (Source: The National Law Review)
- Editorial: A Patent Waiver on COVID Vaccines is Right and Fair (Source: Nature)
- Judge Paul R. Michel (Ret.) and Atty. David J. Kappos: Waiving Covid-19 Vaccine Patents Won’t Get Shots in Arms Faster. It Slows Down New Vaccines. (Source: NBC News)
New Job Postings on Patently-O:
- Kubota & Basol LLP – Patent Agent
- Kubota & Basol LLP – Patent Prosecution Associate/Attorney
- Dority & Manning, P.A. – Mechanical Engineering Patent Attorney or Agent
- Dority & Manning, P.A. – Electrical and Computer Science Technologies Patent Attorney or Agent
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Aurora Consulting LLC
As to the Majumder piece, and given that patent applications are first published 18 months after their earliest priority date, how does Yahoo already know that China started to file C19 vaccine patent applications as early as February 2020?
As to the Majumder piece, and given that patent applications are first published 18 months after their earliest priority date, how does Yahoo already know that China started to file C19 vaccine patent applications as early as February 2020?
The latest draft of the proposed TRIPS waiver has been released. Still no call for forced tech transfer. No surprise there, really, given that the TRIPS agreement does not make provision for forced tech transfer, so no such outcome could possibly be achieved via a “waiver” (not that the legal impossibility of such an outcome has stopped otherwise intelligent people from decrying such an outcome).
the hyperlink is resulting in a 404 message…
(someone may want to pass the message onto Greg)
I agree with Dayen’s intimation that Prof. Chien is not going to be nominated. I know nothing about any of the names floated in Dayen’s piece as potential USPTO directors. Anyone else know anything about any of them?
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