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Favorite Quotes from KSR, Part I

October 27, 2009

You’ve heard it before, whether from an insistent client, from a partner or senior associate for whom you were working on a project, or from a colleague in an ever fascinating discussion of the nuances of patent application drafting. “You have to tell the whole story.” “This may be the case that ends up in [...]

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Materiality and a Legitimate Paranoia

September 23, 2009

Merck Patent GmbH is the assignee of U.S. Patent No. 7,576,193, which issued August 18, 2009.  The most notable aspect of this 29 page patent is the large number of publications cited on the face of the patent, or more accurately, on the first 9 pages of the patent.  While I realize the volume of [...]

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Tricky Sequences

August 25, 2009

I work with sequence listings on a regular basis though typically the sequences are straight forward and do not require anything fancy for entry into PatentIn, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s sequence software. Recently, however, I came across a sequence with a string of amino acids within the larger polypeptide where each residue [...]

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Welcome!

August 12, 2009

Welcome to Patent Divas.
The idea behind this blog and our postings is to create a platform for discussion of issues confronting biotech patent attorneys and agents. We’ll also share patents and applications that we find particularly curious. Our goal is to recreate in this blog the passionate discussions we generate (and fuel) around [...]

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