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New Jersey Law Journal

Pharmaceutical Due Diligence Practice Tips for New Drugs

The primary goal of a patent practitioner performing due diligence of a new drug should be to identify all risks associated with commercialization of the drug product and to determine the potential for market exclusivity.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

With Patent Case Filings in Texas Redistributing, Will Fla. See More Cases?

  Last month, one of the nation's patent filing hot spots, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, put in place new court…
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Dallas-Based Law Firm Munck Wilson Opens First of Several Planned Fla. Offices in Boca Raton

Managing partner William Munck said tech growth in the Miami–West Palm Beach corridor prompted the new office, which may lead to additional locations to the north and south along Florida's Atlantic coast.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

A Sea Change for Patent Plaintiffs in Texas

A recent order issued in Texas could have a rippling effect on cases filed not only in Texas but throughout the entire nation, as patent practitioners may now turn to the nation's other patent litigation hotspots.
8 minute read

The Recorder

Morgan Lewis Hires 5-Person Patent Prosecution Team From Duane Morris

The team is led by Manita Rawat, the former managing partner of Duane Morris' Silicon Valley office, and has brought a large number of clients to the firm, including Walmart.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Patents: Discretionary Denials and the Consequences of Gameplaying

This article is directed to such discretionary denials, and the difficulties arising from the lack of denial standards and from the gamesmanship of counsel, and the pending movement toward rulemaking to alleviate these concerns.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Recently Introduced Bill Would Revise Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Framework

In August of this year, Senator Thom Tillis introduced the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022 which would provide guidance for how to analyze patent claims to determine eligibility. This article discusses the potential impact the bill would have on software and biotechnology inventions and also patent litigation.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Navigating the Murky Waters of the Hatch-Waxman 'Safe Harbor'

The boundaries surrounding the Hatch-Waxman safe harbor are not always clear. This article explores the statutes and recent case law surrounding the provision to shed some light on its contours.
8 minute read

Law.com

Federal Circuit Analyzes Specification and Prosecution History Claim Language Usage

Absent an express disclaimer or special definition of how a term is to be interpreted, it can be frustrating to get a court to reject the plain and ordinary meaning of claim language read in a vacuum, based on the subtleties of how a term is used in a patent or its prosecution history.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

AI and Inventorship: An Expected Decision With Uncertain Consequences

The top U.S. patent court has confirmed what many were expecting in the patent community—that artificial intelligence (AI) is not considered an "individual" according to the Patent Act and thus AI cannot be named as an inventor on a patent.
4 minute read

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