The following comments have been submitted in response to the notice titled "2014 Interim Guidance on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility," which was published in the Federal Register at 80 FR 45429 (link is external)(July 30, 2015) and in the Official Gazette at 1417 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 252 (August 25, 2015).
To ensure consideration, comments must be received by October 28, 2015.
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A. Intellectual Property Organizations
- American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law (ABA-IPL) (28Oct2015)
- American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) (28Oct2015)
- Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) (28Oct2015)
- BSA The Software Alliance (28Oct2015)
- Coalition for 21st Century Medicine (28Oct2015)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Knowledge (28Oct2015)
- Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (FICPI) (27Oct2015)
- International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property of Japan (AIPPI Japan) (28Oct2015)
B. Government Agencies
C. Academic and Research Institutions
D. Law Firms
- Borson Law Group, PC (26Oct2015)
- Howard IP Law Group, PC (28Oct2015)
E. Companies
- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) (28Oct2015)
- Google (28Oct2015)
- IBM Corporation (27Oct2015)
- Microsoft (28Oct2015)
F. Individuals
- Citrin, Adam (28Oct2015)
- Fahey, Derek (21Sep2015)
- Hoffman, Louis (28Oct2015)
- Jacobson, Rob (28Oct2015)
- Janke, Garth (14Aug2015)
- Kasha, John (28Oct2015)
- Martillo, Joachim (10Aug2015)
- Penilla, Albert (28Oct2015)
- Sikand, Sunjeev (28Oct2015)
- Smith, Stan (27Oct2015)
- Stein, David (28Oct2015)
- Sundby, Suzannah (24Oct2015)
- Warner, Charles (28Oct2015)
- Wegner, Harold (16Sep2015)
- Winter, Jonathan (27Oct2015)
- Yarus, Sinai (27Oct2015)
Received after October 28, 2015
- Bird, Joseph (08Nov2015)
- IEEE-USA (02Nov2015)
- IPO (02Nov2015)
- Pomcor (23Feb2016)
- Sikand, Sunjeev (05Nov2015)
- Wegner, Harold (23Dec2015)
- WSPLA (29Oct2015)