With today’s accelerated pace of innovation, it is essential for organizations to leverage comprehensive IP insights to inform R&D, fuel strategic decisions, and protect their investments. At the same time, executing IP search projects in rapidly evolving domains is incredibly complex, requiring ongoing collaboration and alignment between R&D teams, attorneys, IP managers, and search professionals. Poor communication, incomplete or inaccurate…
This week in Washington IP news, as a new school year begins, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) looks at the latest research on invention education.
Nearly 30% of biologics patent rejections result from a lack of adequate description. Rejections of this sort may rise in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Amgen v. Sanofi. Increasingly, building strong patent applications in this complex and litigious biologics space will require more robust specifications, with solid and well-supported claims, which means applications backed by strong IP searches…