Today we continue our weekly installment highlighting the best of the patent blogosphere from the past week. If there are any patent blogs you think should be highlighted by our Top 5, please comment on this post and we’ll check them out.
1) Patents Post-Grant: Discovery Practices Before the Patent Trial & Appeal Board – This post discusses how the USPTO has fleshed out the meaning of “limited discovery” as a result of the new proceedings established by AIA, Post Grant Review and Inter Partes Review, and how the include “limited discovery”.
2) IP Watchdog: Chakrabarty Controls on Isolated DNA Sequences, not Mayo* – This post, written by guest author Eric W. Guttag, shares a perspective on the Supreme Court’s decision in Prometheus and its remand of AMP and what their potential impact may be when considering Diamond v. Chakrabarty.
3) Patently-O: Self-Replicating Inventions: Supreme Court asks for Government’s Views in Monsanto Patent Exhaustion Case – This post takes a look at Bowman v. Monsanto and how the the Supreme Court has invited the Solicitor General to file briefs expressing the views of the United States in the case.
4) PatentDocs: Record Number of PCT Applications Filed in 2011 – This post reports on WIPO’s announcement that patent filings under the Patent Cooperation Treaty would be up again in 2011, and that the number of international patent filings would set a new record. According to the WIPO announcement, an estimated 181,900 PCT applications were filed last year.
5) IP Kat: Battle of the Tablets hits the UK – Samsung seeks declaration of non-infringement of Apple Registered Community Design – This post shares the on-going dispute between Apple and Samsung regarding the alleged infringement of certain Samsung tablets and how the dispute finally reached the courts in the UK.
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