Patent Law
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Global Entrepreneurship Week – KC
by Hovey Williams November 2, 2022ATTENTION PIONEERS and INVENTORS!! DON’T MISS OUT ON FREE INFORMATIVE SESSIONS FOR ENTREPRENEURS. Global Entrepreneurship Week – KC happens November 14-20, 2022. Learn how to to protect and commercialize your inventions with patents, trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. Our partner, Tom Luebbering will host a free informative session on Thursday November 17, 2022 from 2:45pm
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Hovey Williams 2023 Recognition in “The Best Lawyers in America”®
by Hovey Williams August 22, 2022Congratulations to our honorees. A well deserved honor.
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USPTO Announced Launch of a Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program
by Hovey Williams June 13, 2022On June 3, 2022, the USPTO announced the launch of a Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program. Under this Pilot Program, qualifying nonprovisional utility patent applications involving technologies that mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions will be advanced out of turn for examination (i.e., accorded special status) until a first action on the merits.
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Intellectual Property Rights in Russia – An Update
by Hovey Williams April 5, 2022In response to the economic sanctions imposed by Western countries, the Russian government has legalized intellectual property piracy against rights holders in so called “enemy countries.” The list of countries includes all members of the European Union and the United States, as well several other countries generally aligned with the EU and US. In particular,
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Assignor Estoppel: Minerva Surgical v. Hologic
by Hovey Williams July 9, 2021Assignor Estoppel is a patent law doctrine dating back to the 1870 Patent Act and first recognized by the Supreme Court in in the 1924 decision of Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co. v. Formica Insulation. This doctrine prevents an inventor from assigning a patent to another party, presumably for some value in return, and subsequently
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Review Power of Administrative Patent Judges: United States v. Arthrex
by Hovey Williams July 7, 2021At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Arthrex, which concerned the constitutionality of the decision power of administrative patent judges (APJs). APJs are employees of the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) that, among other roles, adjudicate post-grant proceedings, such as inter partes reviews. This role of the
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Subject Matter Eligibility Update
by Hovey Williams June 16, 2021Patentable subject matter
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Patent trolls target small business
by Hovey Williams July 20, 2019Patent trolls are patent assertion entities who buy up patents from bankrupt businesses, auctions and inventors for pennies … patent law
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Busting some patent myths
by Hovey Williams July 11, 2019Anyone who has needed to copyright something has likely considered the option of the so-called “poor …
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