USPTO

December, 6th, 2017

Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup

WHIPgroup obtained Notice of Allowance less than 9 months after filing a request to utilize the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program. The PPH is a set of initiatives designed to accelerate patent prosecution by allowing [Read More…]

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: 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, 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, 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, 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…]

October, 31st, 2017

Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: litigation, precedential, trademark, TTAB, USPTO

By Chelsea A. Russell In the digital age, it is commonplace for consumers to be familiar with companies and products not for sale in their country. The internet has created a market in which companies [Read More…]

October, 24th, 2017

Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: patent, PTAB, USPTO, whipgroup

WHIPgroup attorneys successfully appealed an obviousness rejection for a patent application directed to a medical instrument with a touch screen movable between a first position within a housing footprint and a second position extended from [Read More…]

October, 23rd, 2017

Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: trademark, TTAB, USPTO, whipgroup

WHIPgroup has filed a trademark Notice of Opposition on behalf of its client Mirage Granito Ceramico SPA (“MGC”) with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, Opp. No. 91237302. MGC is an Italian company which sells [Read More…]