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Statutory Bar Prior Art in the Nonobviousness Analysis

November 14, 2010Obviousness, Patent, Prior Artobviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Professor, University of Iowa College of Law
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Split Court Denies Rehearing En Banc in Sun Pharmaceuticals v. Eli Lilly

November 1, 2010Obviousness, Patent, Patent Cases 2010, Rantanendouble patenting, Federal Circuit En Banc, obviousness, paidJason Rantanen

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Interval Licensing v. AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, etc.

August 27, 2010License, Obviousness, PatentLicenses, obviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Lack of “Engineering Details” in Claim Hampers NonObviousness Argument

August 22, 2010Obviousness, Patent, Patent Cases 2010obviousness, paid, USPTO DirectorDennis Crouch

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Transocean v. Maersk: Speeding Up Deepsea Drilling

August 19, 2010Enablement, Infringement, Obviousness, PatentEnablement, obviousness, Oil States, paid, USPTO DirectorJason Rantanen

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Sun Pharmaceuticals v. Eli Lilly: obviousness-type double patenting in the pharmaceutical context

August 2, 2010Claim Construction, Obviousness, Patent, Patent Cases 2010, Pharma, RantanenClaim Construction, double patenting, obviousness, paidJason Rantanen

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Wyers v. Master Lock

July 23, 2010Obviousness, Patent, Patent Cases 2010, Prior Artmotivation to combine, obviousness, paid, reasonable expectation of success, USPTO DirectorJason Rantanen

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BPAI Review of Obviousness Rejections

June 27, 2010BPAI, Obviousness, Patentobviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Terminal Disclaimers and PTO: Proposal for a Test Case

June 17, 2010Obviousness, Patent, Patent Applicationsobviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Federal Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment of Obviousness for Bulk EMail Patent

December 2, 2009Anticipation, Obviousness, Patent, Patent Cases 2009, Patentable Subject MatterAffirmed Without Opinion, anticipation, Claim Construction, obviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Bits and Bytes No. 127: Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made.

August 24, 2009Bits and Bytes, Conference or CLE, En Banc, Obviousness, Patentanticipation, Federal Circuit En Banc, obviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Bits and Bytes No. 127: Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made.

August 24, 2009Bits and Bytes, Conference or CLE, En Banc, Obviousness, Patentanticipation, Federal Circuit En Banc, obviousness, paidJonathan Hummel

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Bits and Bytes No. 127: Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made.

August 24, 2009Bits and Bytes, Conference or CLE, En Banc, Obviousnessanticipation, Federal Circuit En Banc, obviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Appealing BPAI Rejections to the Federal Circuit

June 16, 2009BPAI, Obviousness, Patent, Patent Cases 2009obviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Irreparable Harm of Generic Competition: Federal Circuit Affirms Finding that Generic Entry Does not Cause Irreparable Harm

May 14, 2009Dissent, Injunctions, Obviousness, Patent, Patent Cases 2009, PharmaAffirmed Without Opinion, obviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Actonel Patent Validity Affirmed: Nonobviousness of Positional Isomer

May 13, 2009Obviousness, Patent, Patent Cases 2009obviousness, paid, reasonable expectation of successDennis Crouch

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BPAI Precedential Opinion: The Nexus for Obviousness and Nonobviousness

May 11, 2009BPAI, Obviousness, Patent, Patent Cases 2009Affirmed Without Opinion, obviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Obviousness-Type Double Patenting and Splitting Ownership (CAFC Says Don’t Do It)

May 8, 2009Obviousness, Patent, Patent Cases 2009Federal Circuit En Banc, obviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Waiving Arguments at the Board of Patent Appeals

February 26, 2009BPAI, Obviousness, Patent, Patent Cases 2009obviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Obviousness; Scope and Content of the Prior Art; Secondary Considerations

February 17, 2009CAFC, Chemical, Obviousness, Patent, Patent Cases 2009, Patentable Subject Matterobviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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