Year: 2016

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES RULING:

ASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY ET. AL. vs. MYRIAD GENETICS, INC., ET. AL. June 13, 2013 decision

Our View Written by Susanne Somersalo, Ph.D., Patent Attorney, Gearhart Law Back in the 1990’s, Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics discovered the location and sequence of two human genes, the mutation of which can...

This blog was written by Roy Rosser, Ph.D., Patent Agent at Gearhart Law A Patent Box? I thought life was meant to be like a Box of Chocolates? Thanks to Skype, it’s now possible to make virtual visits to foreign cities. On one such recent adventure, I discovered that all London is agog about “The Patent...

This blog was written by Roy Rosser, patent agent at Gearhart Law Edison of Arabia – Saudi Arabia joins the PCT As of August 3rd, 2013 Saudi Arabia (SA) will become the 147th country to join the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). The PCT is an international Intellectual Property rights treaty administered by the United Nations through its...

USPTO Patent term calculator: http://j.mp/12nR23h Patents have fixed, finite lives. As savvy inventors and entrepreneurs know, since 1995 US patents are valid for twenty years from the date of the first US filing of the patent. Not hard to calculate that – so why has the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) just released...

Inventor? Entrepreneur? Investor? Whatever your role, if you’re in business, you need to be aware of Intellectual Property (IP). How it could hurt you – or how it could help you. And just what are your options anyway? The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) – in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards...

What’s Up Down Under? For any US inventor or entrepreneur with business interests in Australia, April 15 2013 is not merely Tax filing day – it is also the date of an important change in Australian Patent Law. Bowing to the pressures of globalization, Australia is in the process of harmonizing its Intellectual Property Laws to...

R U a μ-N it E? (Translation: Are you a micro-entity?) First of all, apart from the sheer novelty of it, why would an entrepreneur or inventor want to be a micro-entity? Every cloud has a silver lining. For the AIA “First Inventor to Invent” cloud due on Saturday, March 16th, that silver lining may be a 75%...

Christie’s Angels go Tax Free – will it help NJ Entrepreneurs? Did hanging out with Bruce and Barak change Governor Christie – or is just that it’s a gubernatorial election year? Whatever the reason, it’s good news for NJ Angel investor’s and NJ’s emerging business start-ups. First Thursday in February, the Chris had a...

By: Richard Gearhart “First to file” replaces “first to invent.”If two inventors invent the same technology, the one who files the patent on it first gets the intellectual property protection, regardless of who invented it first. This aligns the US patent system with the other countries of the world. For example, if inventor A invents...

By: Roy Rosser For Inventors, Entrepreneurs and companies doing business in Europe, Christmas arrived early. December 10thto be precise. Disguised as the Parliament of the European Union (EU), Santa turned up in Strasbourg and granted inventors and entrepreneurs three, forty year old wishes: A single patent, valid throughout Europe A single language for writing...