SGR is pleased to announce that Dr. Madhavi Sriram recently joined the firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) Department as a Patent Science Advisor. Working with the firm’s patent attorneys, Dr. Sriram will assist the firm’s clients with respect to patent application preparation and filing, and other patent-related matters. Dr. Sriram has a Ph.D. in Chemistry, a Masters in Pharmaceutical Sciences, as well as extensive research experience. She assists SGR’s patent attorneys with preparing and pursuing patent applications at the US Patent and Trademark Office, as well as foreign patent offices, in a wide variety of chemical, life sciences and medical technology fields. Before… Read more
Tag: biotechnology
Further guidance and the light at the end of the tunnel
By: J. Gibson Lanier, Ph.D Just when the patent prosecution community thought that, for better or worse, the standards relating to the subject matter eligibility of claims were set for examination, the standards have moved again following the Mayo/Alice decisions. On Thursday, the USPTO released its latest subject matter eligibility examination guidelines for 35 U.S.C. § 101, evidencing just how unworkable the Mayo/Alice test is from a practical standpoint. This iteration of guidelines for examination is the third such revision and provides new examples of what may be subject matter eligible for biotechnology patents, but does not provide additional examples… Read more