January, 25th, 2017
Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup attorneys were again successful in using the Pre-Appeal program to advance prosecution. The invention is directed to an arrangement having a medical instrument and a manipulator that can be releasably connected to one another [Read More…]
January, 25th, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: patent, PTAB, USPTO, whipgroup
After an oral argument before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, WHIPgroup secured a written opinion reversing the Examiner’s rejection of claims covering computerized control systems and related software for providing control of real world [Read More…]
January, 24th, 2017
Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup was successful in using the Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Program to obtain allowance of an application for a suture holding system. On the basis of its pre-appeal request, WHIPgroup convinced the panel of examiners that [Read More…]
January, 24th, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: patent, PTAB, USPTO
By Paul L. Fraulo In ex parte Schulhauser, a decision recently designated precedential, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) construed a method claim with separate steps reciting mutually exclusive conditions precedent: A method for [Read More…]
January, 23rd, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: litigation, patent, PTAB, trademark, TTAB, USPTO, whipgroup
Our practice continues to grow and thrive. Notable accomplishments over the past year include: Achieved an extraordinary success rate (~80%) with the new P3 Program, obtaining reversals on dozens of final patent rejections without the [Read More…]
January, 18th, 2017
Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup has obtained allowance on claims directed to a shortcut navigator for industrial monitoring and control systems. A Final Office Action rejected the claims based on a combination of three prior art references. WHIPgroup attorneys [Read More…]
January, 17th, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: startup, trademark, TTAB, USPTO
By Chelsea A. Russell The Lanham Act’s “use in commerce” requirement has long been established to mean lawful use in commerce in accordance with federal statutory law. This requirement can bar registration because the identified [Read More…]
January, 10th, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: CBM, IPR, patent, PTAB, USPTO
By Robert D. Keeler Under the AIA, the PTAB can deny institution of an IPR, CBM, or PGR because “the same or substantially the same prior art or arguments previously were presented to the Office.” [Read More…]
January, 3rd, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: patent, PTAB, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup secured a favorable decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, reversing all rejections of an application directed to machine type identification. Without an oral hearing, WHIPgroup persuaded the Board through its briefings that [Read More…]
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