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[01:08] schestowitz Dear Rose, I think that any date of the opponent s... http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/to-encompass-and-embody-applying.html?showComment=1683192864724#c7329826342732111755
[01:08] schestowitz Dear Rose, I think that any date of the opponent showing that the asserted technical effect (invoked by the patentee) is not achieved in practice (or that there are many non-working embodiments in that respect) will be considered. It is like submitting experimental evidence that water boils at 100C at 1 bar: it concerns time-independent facts, unlike the requirement of G 2/21 which is tied to the (past) priority date.
[01:08] schestowitz Thanks Rose. My comments really come from my exper... http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/to-encompass-and-embody-applying.html?showComment=1683189036032#c1644828523598751330
[01:08] schestowitz Thanks Rose. My comments really come from my experience of how effective an attack plausibility has become in EPO opposition. Previously, traditional lack of enablement attacks were difficult in chemical/pharma/biotech if you did not have any data to file to support them. Now you just have to attack the weak points in the data in the spec, and the patentee can be put in a very difficult situation if they cannot use post filing data. So
[01:08] schestowitz I believe plausibility has become far more demanding than enablement because it is a test of your data under attack from a hostile party that can find many different holes in it if they wish. EPO case law is very very unclear as to how the burden of proof operates in this situation between patentee and opponent, but I have seen the patentee's getting a lot more burden than they would under traditional enablement. Plausibility requires v
[01:08] schestowitz ery clear thinking in terms of which inventive concept needs to be shown using what form of data, and I think many opposition divisions struggle with the complexity of it. The reference to the Enlarged Board was perhaps for the purpose of seeking help for opposition divisions in particular, to give them a set of rules to follow, especially for use of post filing data. However the Enlarged Board instead, I think, realised it was better f
[01:08] schestowitz or things to play in the system for a while and let plausibility find its own way in terms of how examining and opposition divisions deal with it.
[01:08] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | To encompass and embody: Applying the abstract principles of G 2/21 - The IPKat
[01:08] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | To encompass and embody: Applying the abstract principles of G 2/21 - The IPKat
● May 06
[02:12] schestowitz "What is not clear from the reasoning in G 2/... http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/to-encompass-and-embody-applying.html?showComment=1683205763286#c3119553428718257898
[02:12] schestowitz What is not clear from the reasoning in G 2/21 is whether the application as filed must explicitly mention the technical effect. Would an implicit understanding that the claimed invention embodies the technical effect be sufficient?"
My reading of headnote II. is that an explicit mentioning of the technical effect in the application as filed is not necessary.
Otherwise, the Enlarged Board would not have formul
[02:12] schestowitz ated the requirement that the skilled person, having the *common general knowledge* in mind, and *based* on the application as originally filed, must be able to *derive* the technical effect as being encompassed as being encompassed by the technical teaching and embodied by the same originally disclosed invention.
If it were necessary to have an explicit statement of the technical effect, neither would the common general know
[02:12] schestowitz ledge come into play, nor would any act of derivation be allowed.
[02:12] schestowitz Spot on and great article. In these times of high-... http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/04/looking-beyond-st26-is-it-time-for.html?showComment=1683192790651#c7298122822775520121
[02:12] schestowitz Spot on and great article. In these times of high-throughput data it would be extremely helpful if the WIPO tool would allow for a more versatile multi-sequence data import. For now it only allows to import a TXT with Identifier, Type of Molecule, Organism, Sequence. I'm looking forward to further developments of the tool to also include features, features location, notes etc. This automated processing would definitely save a hugh amoun
[02:12] schestowitz t of time but more importantly to minimize errors in the sequence listing.
[02:12] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | To encompass and embody: Applying the abstract principles of G 2/21 - The IPKat
[02:12] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Looking beyond ST.26: Is it time for patent offices to enter the bioinformatic age? - The IPKat
● May 06
[10:19] schestowitz
[10:19] schestowitz[10:19] schestowitzFor many years now, Haiku is a regular participant in the Google Summer of Code program, which offers paid mentorship to people willing to work full time on Haiku for a few months. Google handles the payments, while mentors from our developer team handle the onboarding of the new contributors and guide them through the project.
[10:19] schestowitz
[10:20] schestowitz[10:20] schestowitzFor many years now, Haiku is a regular participant in the Google Summer of Code program, which offers paid mentorship to people willing to work full time on Haiku for a few months. Google handles the payments, while mentors from our developer team handle the onboarding of the new contributors and guide them through the project.
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[10:47] schestowitz[10:47] schestowitzEarlier this week, the Republican National Committee released a video that it claims was built entirely with AI imagery. The content of the ad isnt especially novela dystopian vision of America under a second term with President Joe Bidenbut the deliberate emphasis on the technology used to create it stands out: Its a Daisy moment for the 2020s.
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