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Timestamp: 2019-04-24 16:16:20+00:00

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Stephen B. Parker, Stephen Parker – Prior Art Based on Inherency Does Not Extend to “Probably” Existing Subject Matter, but Is Limited to “Necessarily” Existing Subject Matter.
Mao (John) Wang, Mao (John) Wang – Issuance date or expiration date as the reference point for obviousness-type double patenting?
Yasuhide Ono – To narrow, or not to narrow a claim without lexicography or disavowal in a patent specification: the U.S. Supreme Court is asked to answer the question.
Scott M. Daniels, Scott Daniels – Whose Burden Is It?
Scott M. Daniels, Scott Daniels – To Combine or not to Combine.
The CAFC Finds the Board’s Claim Construction to Be Unreasonably Broad.
Andrew G. Melick, Andrew G. Melick – A Non-Overlapping Prior Art Range May Still Render a Claimed Range Obvious.
Mao (John) Wang, Mao (John) Wang – Words of limitation that can connote with equal force a structural characteristic of a product or a process of manufacture are interpreted as structural limitations by default.
Ryan Chirnomas, Ryan B. Chirnomas – CAFC relies on extrinsic evidence to define a claim term and to demonstrate inherency.
Linda J. Shapiro, Linda J. Shapiro – CAFC looks to complete disclosure of patent at issue and its related patents to counter patent owner’s arguments based on cherry-picking.
Adele Critchley, Adele Critchley – Bayer left hard up when CAFC reversed district courts final judgment with some stiff words for the lower court.
Michael J. Caridi, Michael Caridi – Masterminding functional claiming of an apparatus, but too soft on intrinsic evidence for claim construction.
Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Nakamura – Ambiguity in specific definition of claim terms.
Scott M. Daniels, Scott Daniels – When is Evidence of Written Description Too Late?
Thomas E. Brown, Thomas Brown – CAFC finds broadly claimed computer memory system eligible under first step of Alice.
Nicolas E. Seckel , Nicolas Seckel – A diagnostic method that raises, not patent-eligibility, but written description issues.
Sadao Kinashi, Sadao Kinashi – When Motion to amend is filed in IPR, Opponent can cite additional references.
Michael J. Caridi, Michael Caridi – Examiner’s determination that a claim term is means-plus-function in allowing an application does not bind the Appeals Board and CAFC.
Thomas E. Brown, Thomas Brown – CAFC refuses to second guess a district court determination on a motion for attorney fees under 285.
Sadao Kinashi, Sadao Kinashi – The Phrase “Consist Of” Creates Strong Presumption That Anything Not Specified Is Excluded.
Adele Critchley, Adele Critchley – When the acts of one are attributable to the other.
Sung-Hoon Kim – Article for "IPnomics" re: the CAFC case of Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corp.
Cindy H. Chen – In a post-Williamson decision, “compliance mechanism” is a means-plus-function element that does not comply with the requirements under §112.
Sadao Kinashi, Sadao Kinashi – Timeliness of IPR petition under §315(b) is an issue of whether to initiate the proceeding, and Board’s determination is nonappealable under §314(d), and the court cannot review it.
Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Nakamura – Board’s Jurisdiction Over Examiner’s Decision Of Not Finding Substantial New Question Made As To Claims Added Or Amended After Institution Of Reexamination.
Sadao Kinashi, Sadao Kinashi – PTO Need Not Terminate Inter Partes Re-exam Even After Parties Have Settled on Validity.
Adele Critchley – The act of contemplation then creates the thing created (Isaac D'Israeli).
Yoshiya Nakamura, Yoshiya Nakamura – Improper Modification of Cited Art in Obviousness Determination: How to Define “Principle of Operation” or “Intended Purpose” of the Art.
Cindy H. Chen, Hsin-I (Cindy) Chen – If At First You Don’t Succeed, (Don’t) Try, Try Again?: Myriad Genetics Lost More Claims To 35 U.S.C. §101.
Thomas E. Brown, Thomas Brown – Ecommerce Patent Found to Have Patent Eligible Subject Matter Under Alice.
Sadao Kinashi, Sadao Kinashi – Negotiation in the U.S. Is Not Sale or Offer for Sale within the U.S. Under §271(a) When Substantial Sales Activities Occur Outside the U.S.
Stephen B. Parker – Be Mindful that the Potential Reach of Claimed Components under the Doctrine of Equivalents Can Be Affected by Amendments to Claimed Sub-Components.
Adele Critchley – What Do a Resealable Cartridge for Low Pressure Liquid Chromatography and a Soda-Pop Bottle and Cap have in Common?
Ryan B. Chirnomas – "Double Trouble:The Expanding Application of The Judicial Doctrine of Obviousness-type Double Patenting", AIPLA Biotech Buzz, Biotech Patent Education Subcommittee, June 2014.
“Divided CAFC Finds Computer System Claims Patent Ineligible,” IP Watchdog, September 13, 2013.
Mao (John) Wang – “Production and characterization of carbamazepine nanocrystals for continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing", Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Volume 101 Issue 4, 1178-1188.
“Virginia Patent Foundation’s Motion for Reconsideration Denied – Intervening Rights Still Absolve GE of Damages for Activities before Reexamination Certificate Issue Date,” US PTO Litigation Alert, February 10, 2011.
Mao (John) Wang – “Effect of tethering chemistry of cationic surfactants on exfoliation, electrospinnability and diameters of PMMA/clay nanocomposite fibers", Polymer, Vol 51 Issue 26, 6295-6302.
Mao (John) Wang – “Tuning the rate dependent stiffness of materials by exploiting Néel relaxation phenomena in magnetic nanoparticles", Advanced Functional Materials, 2008, Volume 18 Issue 3, 462-469.
Mao (John) Wang – “A nondestructive experimental study of stress transfer across polymer interfaces by moiré interferometry,” Journal of Polymer Science,Part B: Polymer Physics, Volume 43 Issue 16, 2196-2206.
Mao (John) Wang – “Production of sub-micron diameter silk fibers under benign processing conditions by two-fluid electrospinning,” Macromolecules, 2006, Volume 39 Issue 3 1102-1107.
Mao (John) Wang – “Electrospinning of Poly (MMA-co-MAA) copolymers and their layered Silicate nanocomposites for improved thermal properties,” Polymer, 2005 Volume 46 Issue 10, 3407-3418.
Mao (John) Wang – “Field-responsive superparamagnetic composite nanofibers by electrospinning,” Polymer, 2004 Volume 45 Issue 16, 5505-5514.
Yasuhide Ono – "A Decision of the German Federal Patent Court on Patentability of Business-Method-Related Invention: Automatic Sales Control"
Yasuhide Ono – "A Decision of the German Supreme Court on Patentability of Computer-Program-Related Invention: Logic Verification"
Yasuhide Ono – "A Problem in the Current System of Trial for Correction (Sec. 126(1) of the Japanese Patent Law) Indicated by Recent Decisions Made by the Tokyo High Court concerning Actions against Rulings to Revoke Patents, Trial Decisions etc. and a Proposal of Amendments to the Patent Law for Solving the Problem"
Yasuhide Ono – "A Review on Impacts of The Recent Statutory Amendments Concerning Patent Law upon Calculation of Damage Compensation in Litigations for Patent Infringement, Especially Featuring Attorneys Fees, Lost Profits due to Sales Decrease, and Royalty"
Yasuhide Ono – "Claim Construction and Infringement Analysis of Means Claims based on Study of Recent Fed. Cir. Cases"
Yasuhide Ono – "Overview of "Examination Guidelines for Determining Obviousness under 35 U.S.C. 103 in View of the Supreme Court Decision in KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc." and Practices in Light of the Guidelines"
Yasuhide Ono – "Practical Treatment of Means-Plus-Function Claim in Japan and the United States - Claim Construction, Enablement and Definiteness"
Yasuhide Ono – "Ranking of Non-Infringing Substitutes and the Effect on Determination of Damages in U.S. Patent Infringement"
Yasuhide Ono – "The Status Quo, Problems, and Proposals on The Monetary Remedies in Litigations for Patent Infringement"
Mao (John) Wang – “Development of field-responsive polymeric magnetic composite nanofibers by electrospinning,” Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 2005, Vol. 855E, W3.22:1-6.
We are pleased to host four student interns from Tokyo City Universities: Yuto Osada, Kohiro Tada, Takafumi Nakahra and Yuka Sekiya. The students will stay with WHDA for one month before returning to Japan.
WHDA is named CHAMPIONS OF QUALITY for Industrials in OCEAN TOMO 2017 leading firm report.
Scott M. Daniels – Partner Scott Daniels spoke at China-U.S. 337 Investigation Seminar on June 7, 2017.
Scott Daniels, Mao (John) Wang – WHDA lawyers featured speakers at U.S. Litigation Forum hosted by Beijing Intellectual Property Office on June 6, 2017.
Sung-Hoon Kim – Mr. Sung-Hoon Kim guest editor for daily IP newspaper called "IPnomics"
Scott M. Daniels – IP Legal Network Third Annual Legal Conference to be held in Boston, MA on November 11-12, 2015.
Mao (John) Wang – Dr. Wang attended Intel ISEF 2015 as a judge in the behavioral and social sciences category 5/11-5/16/15.
John P. Kong – John Kong was a presenter in the IP Legal Network webinar titled "How to Practice Patent Law After Alice".
Scott M. Daniels – Scott Daniels is speaker for upcoming AIPLA Webinar, "Navigating the Shoals between the PTAB and District Court".
Sung-Hoon Kim – Mr. Sung-Hoon Kim quoted in October 26, 2014 article by the Electronic Times (Korean publication).
Stephen B. Parker – Stephen B. Parker speaks at the AIPLA annual conference in Washington, D.C.
Mao (John) Wang – Dr. John Wang is 2014 winner of AIPLA Past President's Award and the Virginia State Bar Award.
Bernadette K. McGann – October 28, 2014 - The Women's Bar Association of DC will present a program at the International Trade Commission.

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