Blog & ArticlesPhiladelphia IP lawyers listed among Pennsylvania’s elite attorneys by Thomson Reuters PHILADELPHIA (May 2023) – The Philadelphia intellectual property law firm Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP is pleased to announce that six of its attorneys have been named 2023…
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal last week designated an August 24, 2022 decision from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) as precedential. See Xerox Corp. v. Bytemark, Inc., IPR2022-00624, Paper No. 9. The designation is…
In December and January, I attended IP group meetings at three separate agriculture/horticulture industry conferences: ASTA’s CSS & Seed Expo, the Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show (MANTS), and ASTA’s Vegetable & Flower Seed Conference. Through those meetings, I learned that there…
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Starting April 3, 2023, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (“USPTO”) will begin assessing a surcharge of $400 (large entity)/$200 (small entity)/$100 (micro entity) for electronically filing certain patent applications in PDF format. This surcharge is designed to encourage…
Panitch Schwarze is pleased to announce additional sessions have been added to the popular Training Academy. These sessions will be offered live. Shortly after the live broadcast, recorded sessions will be available on demand. The Training Academy sessions address…
SpaceX founder Elon Musk recently gave Jay Leno a tour of his Starbase spaceport. During the tour, Mr. Leno raised the topic of patents, to which Mr. Musk apparently replied, “Patents are for the weak.” Consistent with remarks he has…
September 1, 2022By Travis Bliss, Ph.D., Esq. and Stephany Small, Ph.D. There is some good news for breeders considering obtaining Plant Variety Protection (PVP)rights for an asexually reproduced plant variety. On August 31, 2022 the U.S. Department ofAgriculture (USDA) announced…
Good news for breeders of asexually reproduced varieties! Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it was indefinitely waiving the germplasm deposit requirement for Plant Variety Protection (PVP) for asexually reproduced varieties. Thus, any breeder seeking PVP protection…
Panitch Schwarze partner Jeffrey W. Gluck, Ph.D., tackles questions on software-related inventions, AI-related inventions, and what to do if someone copies your idea/patent in his interview on OpSec with Guy Yasika.
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