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Assignor Estoppel: Protecting Your Patent Rights

Assignor Estoppel: Protecting Your Patent Rights     The centuries-old common law doctrine of assignor estoppel is intended to prevent an inventor from making inconsistent representations about a patent’s validity by first warranting the patent is valid when assigning rights, but then later claiming the patent is invalid. In 2021, while upholding the doctrine in Hologic …

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Laying the Groundwork for an AI Breakthrough

Laying the Groundwork for an AI Breakthrough     Big data and artificial intelligence (AI) have been billed as “the next big thing” for more than a decade. Theoretically, these approaches present R&D groups in the medical device industry with enormous prospects. Realistically, many organizations have trouble realizing their full potential. Some businesses have resisted or …

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