News & InsightsNews & InsightsNoncompete Ban Turns Patents, Copyrights Into Corporate ShieldsMay 29, 2024 By: Brian T. Moriarty, Timothy J. Meagher, and Alice O. Carroll The new Federal Trade Commission ban on noncompete agreements will unleash two contradictory threads: more innovation and inventions, and more intellectual property theft... Updated Guidelines for AI InventionsMay 20, 2024 On March 1, 2024, updated Guidelines for examining AI inventions at the European Patent Office (EPO) came into effect. These updated guidelines can be found in the official “... Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is a Proud Annual Sponsor of Medical Development Group BostonMay 6, 2024 Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is a proud, longstanding annual sponsor of the Medical Development Group of Boston (MDG Boston). For years, Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds has played a... Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is New Sponsor of the UMass Lowell Innovation HubMay 2, 2024 Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is excited to share that we are now an annual sponsor of the UMass Lowell Innovation Hub. The UMass Lowell Innovation Hub (UML iHub) offers premier coworking... USPTO Guidance on AI-assisted Inventing: A Natural Person Is An Inventor If They Provided A Significant ContributionFebruary 22, 2024 By: Philip T. Mazoki The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published guidance on whether a natural person may be an inventor of an AI-assisted invention. This guidance from... 9th Circ. Should Overturn The Miles Davis Tattoo RulingFebruary 15, 2024 The jury in the recent Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg case decided that a tattoo of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis inked by celebrity artist Kat Von D was not substantially similar to a copyrighted... United States Patent and Trademark Office Releases New Guidelines for Assessing Enablement in View of Amgen v. SanofiFebruary 12, 2024 By: Deirdre E. Sanders and Kelly Brewer, , Ph.D. Best practices continue to include providing enabling disclosure reasonable for claim scope, including disclosure of structural characteristics common to all claimed embodiments of... Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is Recognized in the World Trademark Review 1000February 7, 2024 World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000, the world’s leading review of trademark professionals, has recognized Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds in the Silver category for the fourteenth... RECORDING: Mary Lou Wakimura Interviewed in MDG Boston’s Video Cast Series “MedTech Masterminds.”February 1, 2024 Mary Lou Wakimura, Principal and Chair of the Board of Directors of Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds, was recently interviewed as the first guest in MDG Boston’s new video... Meet Our New Team of Ph.D.'s. Our Team of Experts is Growing. See our recently hired team of Ph.D.'s.Rob earned his Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry from the University of Rochester where he focused on leveraging P450 enzymes to modify various natural products and drug molecules... Giovanna Fessenden-Fairbank Elected to Serve as Co-Chair of Boston Bar Association’s Internet and Technology Subcommittee (IP Steering Committee)November 30, 2023 Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is excited to announce that Giovanna Fessenden-Fairbank, Counsel and Digital IP Specialist at Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds, is now serving as Co-Chair... In re Cellect: Is Your Patent Portfolio Vulnerable to Double Patenting Challenges?November 13, 2023 By: Alice O. Carroll For the first time, the Federal Circuit in the case of In re: Cellect, LLC (Case No. 22-1293, decided August 28, 2023) addressed how Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) interacts with obviousness... |
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