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Anthony D. Sabatelli, PhD, and Frederick A. Spaeth, Partners at Dilworth IP, are presenting a talk on “Intellectual Property Considerations for Entrepreneurs.” Their talk will be part of a series of training seminars offered by the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (“YEI”) to their summer fellow venture teams. The event will take place today, Monday, June 13th at YEI, 254 Elm Street in New Haven, CT. Dilworth IP is a corporate partner of YEI.

Dilworth IP partner, Frederick Spaeth, will serve as a panelist at the 2016 Connecticut Business Expo in Hartford, CT this Thursday. This annual, one-day event provides a venue for thousands of business executives from across the state to showcase their products and services. The day will consist of a series of educational sessions moderated and paneled by experts from a variety of industries. Fred’s session, “Building a Great Brand Name,” will focus on the branding process, with his talk emphasizing the selection and securitization of a brand name.

Dilworth IP will be sponsoring CURE at the BIO International Convention in San Francisco. The event, which will be held from Monday, June 6th through Thursday, June 9th at the Moscone Center, brings together over 15,000 biotechnology and pharma leaders from across the world for a week of intense educational programs, exhibitions and networking opportunities. The keynote address this year will be given by Will Smith and Dr. Bennet Omalu and will be entitled “Knowledge Precipitates Evolutio

Like most other high-school students, I struggled with SAT vocabulary. Let’s face it, even voracious readers rarely encounter “susurration,” “verisimilitude,” or “eleemosynary.” Apparently, however, no 10th grader could hope to enter college without understanding them. I therefore cringed to read “conflate” in the Federal Circuit’s decision in Intelligent Bio-Systems v. Illumina Cambridge (decided May 9, 2016). According to Webster’s (not so) New Collegiate Dictionary (1977), “conflate” can mean “to bring together” or “fuse.” However, it can also mean “to confuse.” Yet another meaning is “to combine (as two readings of a text) into a composite whole.” Confused, I turned to Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition (1990), but alas, “conflate” appears to have no special meaning in the law.

With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010, preventive medicine – services that focus on disease prevention, rather than disease treatment – became a major focus of healthcare and the market for medical diagnostics expanded to meet a growing demand. During the same time, faster and less expensive next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) and improvements in cloud storage, which facilitated the analysis of sequence data, boosted the development of microbiome-based diagnostics.

Dilworth IP is proud to have been a sponsor for the fifty-five Connecticut students who traveled to the National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo (NICEE) in Washington, D.C. A ceremony was held by Governor Dannel Malloy on Friday, May 20th at the State’s Capitol to see the young inventors off as they headed to the event. Dilworth IP’s Frederick Spaeth, who was present for the ceremony, said “it was a such a pleasure to see so much enthusiasm from the students as they headed to the convention. I think the event is a fantastic way to teach the practical process of protecting their creative ideas.”

This is the third article in a review series of “Nanomedicine: A Vast Horizon on a Molecular Landscape”. In Part I we discussed the major research and development areas in the field. Then, we briefly introduced some representative research groups and companies and their patents in nanomedicine (Part II). Here, we will start the discussion about the diagnostic applications of nanomedicine.

Over the past year our firm has been reporting on major intellectual property developments and the R&D and commercialization efforts in the microbiome. The importance of this scientific area for bringing new drug therapies to the marketplace has now been given a big shot in the arm by the US government. On Friday, May 13, the White House launched a public-private coalition “to foster the integrated study of microbiomes across different ecosystems.” This expansive R&D effort comes with $121 million of funding from the federal government, with another $100+ million of investments from academia and the private sector.

On Wednesday, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act. His action follows the bill’s passage in Congress, which we previously reported here: /trade-secrets-bill-passes-house-goes-white-house/

In a signing ceremony in the Oval Office, President Obama recognized the legislation’s historic importance, commenting that the law “for the first time will provide civil actions for companies or individuals that are stealing trade secrets from our American innovators[1].”

Mark A. Thomas, partner at Dilworth IP, will be hosting a FREE webinar on Wednesday, June 8th at 1:00 PM (EDT). This session, entitled Two Years After Alice – A Challenging Adventure for Software Patents, will discuss the aftermath of the 2014 Supreme Court decision in Alice Corp v. CLS Bank International. Alice has grown beyond a less than satisfying Supreme Court decision to become the most significant threat to billions of dollars in software patents. This webinar will be of particular benefit to in-house counsel as it will explore recent Patent Office guidance and federal court decisions with a practical focus on protecting software and getting more patents allowed under evolving Alice standards. The webinar will also touch on the impact of Alice and how it has changed the legal landscape.