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Diamond Lake Minerals Launches Advanced Materials & IP Division and Files Inaugural Provisional Patent for Physics-Informed Valuation Technology
05 May 2025 12:30 GMT
… and external collaborations to file patents in key domains, including advanced … months to maintain the original filing date.
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Patently Enabled May 2025 - Patentability and Freedom to Operate Are Not the Same
03 May 2025 01:03 GMT
… OPERATE (FTO) Your patent application’s filing date will help determine whether … arise after your filing date. THE IMPORTANCE OF FILING DATE IN PATENTABILITY PRIOR ART AND … INFRINGEMENT FILING DATE AND ITS ROLE IN FTO Your patent application’s filing date is …
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USPTO Expedites Patent Issuance: Things To Do Before Paying the Issue Fee
03 May 2025 01:41 GMT
… accelerating the issue dates for patents, reducing the time between … . For applicants navigating the patent process, these changes come … can claim the same filing date as an earlier filed … requests corrections to issued patents and the corrections are …
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A welcome change: Sweden’s new patent act
30 Apr 2025 02:06 GMT
… Swedish Intellectual Property Office (Patent och registreringsverket (PRV)) received … 4 of the Patent Act): The patent claims shall define … a rule allowing the patent holder to oppose further … time between the filing date of the patent application, including the …
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Priority Catch-22: Federal Circuit Chills Design Patent with Rejection of Priority Claim
28 Apr 2025 19:13 GMT
… patent application the benefit of an earlier utility application’s filing date … to the earlier filing date of the utility patent. Importantly, the … patent is measured from the grant date (not the filing date), … 's effective filing date may be later than …
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Recent Updates at the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board
22 Apr 2025 19:12 GMT
… for discretionary denials. Patent challengers and patent owners alike should … of Filing Date Accorded to a petition, a patent owner … of the Notice of Filing Date Accorded.
The memo indicates … the Notice of Filing Date Accorded), the patent owner may submit …
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Federal Circuit Clarifies Requirements For A Prior Art Reference’s Entitlement To The Filing Date Of A Provisional Application To Which It Claims Priority
01 Apr 2025 17:35 GMT
… “Board”) that a published patent application (“Lettich”) qualified as … During original prosecution, the patent Examiner rejected the ’168 … the validity of a patent) demonstrates support for … its provisional application’s filing date solely because a particular …
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Utility models: a cornerstone in building your Chinese patent portfolio
16 Apr 2025 01:49 GMT
… from the filing date (Article 42, Section 1, Patent Law), and … two months from the filing date (Rule 57, Section 2 … and inventiveness examination, patents undergo strict substantive examination … of invalidation decisions for patents
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Introduction to patent term compensation for Chinese invention patents
15 Apr 2025 14:36 GMT
… four years after the patent filing date and the date … PTA.
The terms “filing date” and “substantive examination … Patent Examination Guidelines:
For an international application, the filing date … divisional application, the filing date refers to the submission …
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Supplementary experimental data acceptance criteria in pharmaceutical patent grant and confirmation procedures
15 Apr 2025 14:36 GMT
… the applicant after the filing date of the patent is generally to prove … a pharmaceutical patent submits supplementary experimental data after the filing date – claiming to … is submitted by the patent applicant after the filing date or the priority …