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IPO Files Amicus Brief in AMP v. USPTO

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- In an amicus brief filed last Friday with the Federal Circuit in Association of Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) sets forth the organization's views regarding "two issues of vital importance to the proper functioning of the patent system." In response to the first issue of how immediate and substantial a controversy must be in order to create declaratory jurisdiction standing sufficient to challenge the validity of a patent, the IPO contends that an actual controversy of sufficient immediacy and reality is required, that such controversy was not...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on November 03, 2010 (boomark / email).