[IP] Patent law and stupid-corporate-tricks

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Chris Beck <cbeck@pacanukeha.net>
Date: October 31, 2005 7:17:11 PM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis
exponebantur ad necem.

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