[IP] Patent law and stupid-corporate-tricks
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From: Chris Beck <cbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 31, 2005 7:17:11 PM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>, Declan McCullagh <declan@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Patent law and stupid-corporate-tricks
This might be of interest to your respective readers -
news:
"USPTO Issues Double-Patenting Rejection on Genentech's 29-Year Patent"
In a preliminary ruling, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
has issued
a double-patenting rejection on a Genentech patent indicating that
the patent,
awarded in 2001, covered basically the same invention as an earlier
Genentech
patent that was set to expire next March.
http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/000245.php
background:
"Celltech gets a patent in 1989. Genentech fights it. They reach an
agreement in
2001, tell the PTO to vacate the original patent and issue a new
one ... but
it's dated 2001 so a patent on some of the underlying tech involved
in making
protein antibodies is extended from 2006 to 2018."
http://pacanukeha.blogspot.com/2004/09/small-update-on-
genentechcelltech.html
http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/121503/insights_patents.html
Cheers,
Chris
--
Chris Beck - http://pacanukeha.blogspot.com
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