Hal Wegner's Recent Writings
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Wegner's Top Ten Patent Cases and other writings of Hal Wegner are available here in PDF format for the private use of readers (permissions given by Hal Wegner). The views expressed are strictly Hal's and do not necessarily reflect the views of either this website or any colleague, organization or client thereof.
- Wegner's Top Ten Patent Cases [updated March 21, 2013]
- Mayo v. Prometheus Patent Eligibility: Whither Myriad and GSK v. Classen [posted May 28, 2012]
- Patent-Eligibility from Benson to Diehr (1972-1981): Patenting Biotechnology "Nylon" [posted May 14, 2012]
- Mayo v. Prometheus: Implications for "Composition[s] of Matter" [posted April 27, 2012]
- Chet’s Shoes; Ex parte Chan: Rule 36/Per Curiam Affirmance Practice [posted February 22, 2012] (discussion of new per curiam affirmance practice at the PTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and local Rule 36 of the Federal Circuit that authorizes an affirmance with a simple order from the Clerk)
- Japan: A Comparative Model for Patent Office Validity Challenges [posted February 7, 2012]
- Wordsmithing and Patent Practitioner Competency Under the Leahy Smith Act [updated November 21, 2011]
- The 2011 Patent Law: Law and Practice - An Analysis of the Leahy Smith America Invents Act [updated October 26, 2011]
- International Patent Exhaustion [posted October 11, 2011]
- Myriad Turns the 1952 Patent Act on its Head [posted August 2, 2011]
- "First-to-File": Is the America Invents Act Constitutional under Stanford v. Roche? [posted June 13, 2011]
- Harari Incorporation-by-Reference: A Sensible Standard [posted April 21, 2010]
- International Patent Exhaustion: Whither the Supreme Court? [posted April 19, 2010]
- Gary Locke Promise to Senator Mikulski: 12 Month Total Patent Pendency by FY2014 [posted March 23, 2010]
- Making Patent Worksharing Work [Fordham 2010] [posted March 22, 2010]
- 20 Month Overall Pendency vs. Patent Worksharing [posted March 15, 2010]
- Overall Patent Pendency FY2009: Benchmarks at the Legislative Starting Gate [posted March 3, 2010]
- The Upside Down Patent Filing Fiasco, the Real Story [posted February 5, 2010]
- Patent Reform "Quality" and "Pendency": Drilling Down to "Backlog", "Deferred Examination", "Patent Worksharing" and Other Integers to Achieve Primary Goals [posted January 18, 2010]
- The New Patent Marking Police: Answering Clontech and Forest Group [posted January 8, 2010]
- Patent Worksharing: What it is, What Congress Must Do [posted December 6, 2009]
- India's "Traditional Knowledge" (TKDL) Database: A Bar to Patenting the Known Plants of India? [posted December 4, 2009]
- The Eagle Right to Generic Protection (2008) [posted November 30, 2009]
- Top 150 "Cusomters": Increasing Domination of the Patent System [posted November 23, 2009]
- Top Ten U.S. Patentees -- by nationality and industry (2008) [posted November 19, 2009]
- PTA Strategies: Wyeth, RCE's and the PCT [posted November 19, 2009]
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