Bryan Hart

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Patent attorney at Brooks Kushman in SE Mich. Formerly Bejin Bieneman, Kirkland & Ellis. Mechanical engineering from University of Michigan, law from University of Chicago. Living in Ithaca, NY. He/him.
Websitehttps://www.brookskushman.com/people/bryan-t-hart/
Bryan HartAug 13, 2024
The patent system incentivizes potential applicants to file early, and this case is an example. If an applicant sells a product made with an inventive process, that product serves as prior art that can invalidate a patent on the process. Once a company starts using a new manufacturing process, that starts the clock running on deciding whether to file a patent application or rely on trade secrets.
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2024/08/coating-process-product.html
#patentlaw #patents
No Sugar-Coating: Post-AIA Patent on Secret Process Barred by Pre-Filing Sale of Product

by Dennis Crouch Although the result could have been guessed, the Federal Circuit has issued an important decision interpreting the …

Patently-O
Bryan HartJan 19, 2024
Funny, but truer than you'd think
https://www.theonion.com/report-majority-of-innovations-involve-hot-gluing-some-1851169517
Report: Majority Of Innovations Involve Hot-Gluing Something Onto Another Object

MINNEAPOLIS—Showing how the method provided the basis for developments as diverse as the light bulb and the quantum computer, a report released Tuesday by researchers at the University of Minnesota found that the majority of innovations involved hot-gluing one thing onto another thing. “A comprehensive analysis of…

The Onion
Bryan HartJan 9, 2024
Show threadmekka okereke Jan 9, 2024

"DEI programs are a waste of money!" Said unironically by dudes that backed Theranos and WeWork, that SPAC'd their way to failure, that wasted everyone's time and money for five years chasing crypto to nowhere.

DEI in the US, is solving the hardest and most consequential problem on earth: reducing the amount of racism in the US.

Without addressing US racism, we can't make progress on:
* Climate change
* Reproductive rights
* Wealth inequality
* Combatting global far-right white nationalism

Bryan HartNov 15, 2023
Sarah FackrellNov 15, 2023

USPTO announces "the creation and implementation of a design patent practitioner bar" (ht @meredithlowry) https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USPTO/bulletins/37b1e60

Applicants for the new #DesignPatentBar will need to have "have a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate degree in one of the following areas (or its equivalent): industrial design, product design, architecture, applied arts, graphic design, fine/studio arts, or art teacher education."

They will also have to "take and pass the current registration examination."

Notice on the creation and implementation of a design patent practitioner bar

United States Patent and Trademark Office
Bryan HartNov 1, 2023
Tiffany LiNov 1, 2023
If you ever grievously injure me enough that my death becomes a Tort Law example case, I will haunt you so persistently your house also becomes a Property Law example case
Show threadBryan HartSep 21, 2023
Although this is what I predicted the Federal Circuit would do, it wasn't a given. The Court in Amgen upheld the outcome, but it didn't cite Federal Circuit caselaw at all, instead relying exclusively on its own very old opinions. So the Federal Circuit could have used Amgen as a starting point for reevaluating its enablement law. But, in Baxalta, it decided not to.
Bryan HartSep 21, 2023

The Federal Circuit just released what I think is its first precedential decision on enablement since the the Supreme Court's decision in Amgen v. Sanofi. For those outside the chemical arts, the biggest takeaway from the case, Baxalta v. Genentech, is this statement: "We do not interpret Amgen to have disturbed our prior enablement case law, including Wands and its factors."

#patentlaw #patent #patents

https://cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders/22-1461.OPINION.9-20-2023_2193254.pdf

Bryan HartJul 18, 2023
The children's books here on vacation are slightly out of date
Bryan HartJul 4, 2023
On this Independence Day, remember that [insert your pet issue here] is what makes America special.
Bryan HartJun 10, 2023
#ip #iplaw