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4 results for: life sciences patents trademarks and trade secrets

Federal Circuit Rejects Penumbra's "Ministerial" Test for Provisional Prior-Art Dates

8/11/2026 5:07:00 PM

Federal Circuit Rejects Penumbra's "Ministerial" Test for Provisional Prior-Art Dates

By Kyle W. Kellar

On August 10, 2026, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Dental Monitoring SAS v. Align Technology, Inc., fundamentally...

Federal Circuit: Conventional Techniques Do Not Bar Patent Eligibility

3/5/2026 9:20:00 PM

Federal Circuit: Conventional Techniques Do Not Bar Patent Eligibility

By Womble Bond Dickinson Seiko Okada B. Logan Buck

In REGENXBIO v. Sarepta Therapeutics, the Federal Circuit recently held that a cell containing a non-naturally occurring recombinant...

Actualizing Therapy from Psychedelic Compounds Requires Acknowledging the Past Pioneers as well as Encouraging Cooperation from Current Market Players

11/20/2025 8:23:00 PM

Actualizing Therapy from Psychedelic Compounds Requires Acknowledging the Past Pioneers as well as Encouraging Cooperation from Current Market Players

By Ben Bourke

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Unsettling Expectations: Avoiding Discretionary Denial of IPR Petitions

9/9/2025 7:28:00 PM

Unsettling Expectations: Avoiding Discretionary Denial of IPR Petitions

By Evan Boetticher

USPTO Acting Director Coke Stewart's introduction of settled expectations into the discretionary denial calculus for inter partes review...