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Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

A Look Ahead: Key Intellectual Property Legal Topics in 2024

What should in-house counsel be on the lookout for in 2024? As we begin a new year, our attorneys look ahead at intellectual property topics they expect will be trending in 2024. They cover areas including life sciences,...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

What You Should Know About Seeking Patent Protection in Vietnam

As Vietnam rises as a consumer market, research hub and manufacturing center, patent rights are becoming increasingly important. In this podcast, Procopio Asia Pacific group leader and IP Partner Miku Mehta discusses with...more

Knobbe Martens

Medical Device Patentee Petitions Supreme Court Regarding On-Sale Bar and Price Quotes

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A medical device patentee has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to save his design patent, related to an introducer sheath handle, from invalidity based on application of the “on-sale” bar, which prohibits patenting an invention...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Response to Request for Quote Held Commercial Offer for Sale, and Invention Invalid

In Junker v. Medical Components, Inc., the Federal Circuit held that a catheter insertion design patent was invalid because the claimed design was offered for sale more than a year before the design patent application was...more

Knobbe Martens

Federal Circuit Reverses District Court’s Decision Based on On-Sale Bar (Junker v. Medical Components, Inc.)

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On February 10, 2022, in Junker v. Medical Components, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s grant of summary judgment of no invalidity under the “on-sale bar”...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Junker v. Medical Components, Inc.: Pre-filing Offers for Sale Trigger Patent “On-Sale Bar”

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A recent Federal Circuit decision, Junker v. Med. Components, Inc., No. 2021-1649 (Feb. 10, 2022), serves as a warning to prospective filers that making pre-filing offers for sale, or engaging in discussions for future sales,...more

Hogan Lovells

China: Are you up-to-date on SPC draft guidelines on patent examination and administrative cases concerning patent rights?

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China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) recently circulated its Draft “Provisions on Several Issues concerning the Adjudication of Administrative Cases on Granting and Affirming Patent Rights (I)”...more

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