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 79 FR 74618 (link is external)(December 16, 2014) and in the Official Gazette at 1410 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 50 (January 1, 2015).
To ensure consideration, comments must be received by March 16, 2015.
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Please note that the following documents are posted as originally received but may contain artifacts of scanning, OCR, or document format conversion.
A. Intellectual Property Organizations
- AIPLA (2015Mar16)
- American Bar Association (2015Mar12)
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (2015Mar16)
- Askeladden, L.L.C. (2015Mar16)
- Boston Patent Law Association (2015Mar16)
- BSA (2015Mar16)
- Coalition for 21st Medicine (2015Mar16)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (2015Apr02)
- International Bioindustry Associations (2015Mar16)
- ASEBIO - The Spanish Bioindustry Association
- BIO Deutschland e. V.
- BIA, The UK BioIndustry Association
- Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
- EuropaBio
- HollandBio
- Japan Bioindustry Association
- IPO (2015Mar16)
- Japan Intellectual Property Association (2015Mar11)
- Japan Patent Attorneys Association (2015Mar16)
- Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (2015Mar15)
- PhRMA (2015Mar16)
- Public Knowledge (2015Mar16)
B. Government Agencies
C. Academic and Research Institutions
- Association of American Universities / Association of Public Land-grant Universities / Association of American Medical Colleges / Association of University Technology Managers / Council on Governmental Relations (2015Mar13)
- Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (2015Mar16)
D. Law Firms
- Dilworth IP. LLC (2015Mar03)
- Howard IP Law Group, PC (2015Mar16)
E. Companies
- Ericsson (2015Mar16)
- Google (2015Mar16)
- IBM (2015Mar16)
- Microsoft (2015Mar16)
- Novartis (2015Mar14)
- PDQ Enterprises, LLC (2015Mar16)
- Trading Technologies International, Inc. (2015Mar14)
F. Individuals
- Acosta, Canek (2015Jan23)
- Anonymous (2015Jan11)
- Anonymous2 (2015Feb12)
- Bian, Renjun (2015Mar15)
- Blythe, Charles (2015Feb13)
- Boys, Donald (2015Feb08)
- Brody, Tom (2015Jan21)
- Brody, Tom (2015Jan22)
- Cole, Paul (2015Mar16)
- De Vries, Duane (2015Feb14)
- Downing, Kristy (2014Dec23)
- Fahey, Derek (2015Mar16)
- Fried, Allan and Bassler, Marc (2015Mar06)
- Gass, David (2015Mar16)
- George, Christopher (2015Mar16)
- Hoffman, Louis, et al. (2015Mar16)
- Houze, David (2015Feb17)
- Howell, Darliene (2015Mar04)
- Isaacson, Thomas (2015Feb09)
- Jablon, Clark (2015Mar16)
- Johnson, Jack (2015Mar16)
- Johnstone, Patrick (2015Mar16)
- King, Ben (2015Jan13)
- Matos, Rick (2015Mar12)
- O'Donnell, Gene (2014Dec16)
- Rapaport, Avi (2015Jan29)
- Rothschild, Cynthia (2015Feb03)
- Sachs, Robert (2015Mar16)
- Schindler, Sigram (2015Mar16)
- Sheogorath (2015Feb19)
- Taylor, Ron (2015Mar04)
- Vobach, William (2015Mar16)
- Vernyuk, Sergey (2015Jan23)
- Weisel, Charles (2015Mar03)
- Welch, Aaron (2015Jan23)
- Werking, Kipman (2015Mar16)
Received after March 16, 2015
- Anonymous (2015Mar25)
- Luo, Chenghua and Goldstein, Jorge (2015Jun30)
- Eliezer, Yuri (2015Mar17)
- NYIPLA (2015Apr16)