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USPTO Guidance Expands High-Tech Patent Eligibility
20 Nov 2025 03:24 GMT
… it easier to get patents for transformative technology. … rejected growing numbers of patent applications, covering a variety … excluding AI innovations from patent protection in the United … §§ 102 (novelty), 103 (non-obviousness), and 112 (disclosure) remain …
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Bombay High Court Sets Aside Patent Office Rejection, Orders Fresh Consideration of Medical Therapeutic Device Patent
19 Nov 2025 12:27 GMT
… therapeutic device, directing the Patent Office to reconsider the … statutory procedures under the Patents Act before refusing the … summarily refusing the patent.
The Patent Office countered that … is found to lack inventive step, sufficiency of disclosure, …
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Computer-Related Invention Not Barred U/S 3(k) Patents Act If It Demonstrates Technical Contribution: Madras High Court
17 Nov 2025 23:51 GMT
… invention involved an 'inventive step' to satisfy … inventive step under Section 2(1)(j) and non-patentability … method lacked any inventive step and it amounted … Patent Office did not disclose these features thus, it incorporated an inventive step …
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Vymada Patent Revocation: A BIT Of A Problem For Novartis?
16 Nov 2025 09:00 GMT
… patent law, it was found to lack novelty and an inventive step … standalone financial transactions, pharmaceuticals patents represent culminations of multi-year … provisions, applications to combinations patents, crystalline forms, and supramolecular complexes …
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Assessing the inventiveness of pharmaceutical formulation patents in China
11 Nov 2025 17:29 GMT
… example of the inventive step assessment in pharmaceutical formulation patents.
The invalidation decision … Claim 1 to be lacking inventive step over the combination of five … inventiveness assessment, the finding of non-obviousness of an invention is premised …
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Examining patents, trademarks & designs: the art of IP examiners
10 Nov 2025 21:26 GMT
… (IP) system, assessing when patent, trademark, geographical indication and industrial … carry out substantive examination of patent applications, that means using … out substantive examination of novelty, inventive step and other criteria, examiners have …
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Patent Office Appeals Review Decision Suggests Policy Shift Toward Broader Eligibility For Ai-Related Patent Applications (UPDATED)
11 Nov 2025 00:10 GMT
… 103, and 112 (novelty, non-obviousness, and sufficiency and clarity of … eligibility. Beyond AI-related patents, Director Squires indicated that … for evaluating inventions for patenting:
Claims that recite an … questions of novelty and non-obviousness and less on …
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Are Patents Safe on AI?
07 Nov 2025 17:42 GMT
… restating claims from previous patent filings. This matters … Ensure humans originate the inventive step. Use AI only for … , including IP management, patent searching, and monitoring. Here … searches to identify existing patents and avoid infringement.
Monitoring …
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Japan Patent Office Rejects Key Patent Application In Nintendo’s ‘Palworld’ Lawsuit
04 Nov 2025 05:56 GMT
… Japan Patent Office (JPO).
The decision cites a lack of inventive step, pointing … The same reasoning (lack of inventive step, obviousness based on prior art …
Filed Under: japan, originality, palworld, patents, pokemon
Companies: nintendo, pocketpair, pokemon …
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Japanese patent officials reject one of Nintendo's Pokémon patent applications for being too similar to ARK, Monster Hunter, and—embarrasingly—Pokémon Go
01 Nov 2025 17:47 GMT
… ;s pending patent applications as failing to demonstrate an "inventive step… .
(Image credit: Pocketpair)The rejected patent application describes the implementation of … weigh the decisions of JPO patent examiners in their deliberations. Additionally …