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• Inequitable Conduct Not Found in Patent Application ( March 1998 )
  Stefanie K. Longhofer of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP

  In this patent infringement case, the court had found Plaintiff's patent to be unenforceable on an earlier motion f.

• Patent Invalidated ( December 1997 )
  Dykema Gossett PLLC

  The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently held in Great Northern v. Henry Molded Products.

• Provisional Application For Patent: What It Is and How to Use It ( January 1997 )
  US Patent and Trademark Office

  This guide provides an inventor with basic information about filing a provisional application for a patent.

• Means-Plus-Function Claims and the Doctrine of Equivalents ( September 1995 )
  Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

  The judicial doctrine of claim differentiation permits courts to presume that claims cover different inventions. T.

• PTO Issues Final Utility Guidelines ( September 1995 )
  Donald J. Bird of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

  The PTO has now issued what it terms the "final version" of the Utility Examination Guidelines to be used by Exam.

• GATT Perspective--U.S. Involvement ( January 1995 )
  Paul E. White of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

  On December 8, 1994, the United States adopted a new law to implement the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade w.

• GATT Significantly Alters U.S. Patent Laws ( January 1995 )
  G. Lloyd Knight of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

  Any patent issued on an application filed on or after June 8, 1995 will have a term which begins on the date the patent issues and ends 20 years from the earliest U.S. filing date claimed by the patent. Therefore, any patent issuing on a divisional, continuation or continuation-in-part (CIP) application filed after June 7, 1995 will have its 20 year term measured from the U.S. filing date of the parent application or any earlier grandparent, etc. filing date.