December, 5th, 2017
Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup has successfully prosecuted a patent application towards grant in less than one year using the USPTO’s Track One prioritized examination. The issued patent is directed to a medical separator system and method for preparing platelet [Read More…]
November, 29th, 2017
Categories: Blog, News Tags: whipgroup
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November, 29th, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: patent, USPTO
By Victor P. Lin Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have been in development since the early 1900s, but only in the last 20 years have they become popular with the realization of their wide-ranging [Read More…]
November, 28th, 2017
Categories: Blog, News Tags: whipgroup
Whitmyer IP Group will sponsor a Meetup to help inventors, entrepreneurs and start-ups identify and protect their intellectual property. Attorneys from WHIPgroup will provide a brief presentation on current patent and trademark issues at the [Read More…]
November, 22nd, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: CAFC, IPR, litigation, patent, precedential, PTAB, USPTO
By Robert D. Keeler Inter partes review (“IPR”) proceedings are infamous for their high patent invalidation rate. To protect against wholesale patent loss, Congress gave Patent Owners the right to make narrowing amendments to any challenged [Read More…]
November, 22nd, 2017
Categories: Blog, News Tags: whipgroup
WHIPgroup’s new 3D printer is up and running. Follow us on LinkedIn and let us know if you would like an IP Cloud ornament.
November, 21st, 2017
Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup has succeeded in using the Pre-Appeal Brief Review program to overcome a final rejection of claims directed to an electrical machine. The novel configuration of the machine minimizes losses when altering current direction in [Read More…]
November, 17th, 2017
Categories: Blog, News Tags: whipgroup
Website updates include the addition of vCards for each attorney, and an archive of past WHIPgroup Newsletters. The archive includes the ability to add yourself to the mailing list. We have also expanded WHIPgroup’s suite [Read More…]
November, 14th, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: CAFC, chemical, litigation, patent, precedential, PTAB, USPTO
By Christopher J. Stankus Patent prosecution attorneys are well aware of their duty of candor to the PTO. However, in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Merus N.V., No. 2016-1346 (Fed. Cir. July 27, 2017), the Federal Circuit [Read More…]
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