{"id":345,"date":"2020-04-07T11:17:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=345"},"modified":"2020-09-04T18:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T22:13:04","slug":"how-covid-19-could-shake-up-patent-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/07\/how-covid-19-could-shake-up-patent-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"How COVID-19 Could Shake Up Patent Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus pandemic may spur new thinking about patent issues, as owners of relevant\u00a0<a title=\"patents\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/practices\/patents.html\">patents<\/a>\u00a0face the risk of backlash for asserting them, and companies developing\u00a0<a title=\"equipment\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/practices\/life_sciences_medical_technologies.html\">equipment<\/a>\u00a0or treatments consider ways to limit potential liability. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>There has already been public outcry over patents related to\u00a0<a title=\"COVID-19\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/practices\/coronavirus_covid_19.html\">COVID-19<\/a>, and such responses will likely grow in intensity if an effective treatment is seen as being hindered by patents. So companies may have to think about using their patents differently than they normally would, attorneys say. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most companies are thinking differently right now than they were six months ago,&#8221;\u00a0<a title=\"Patrick Gallagher\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/patrickcgallagher.html\">Patrick Gallagher<\/a>\u00a0of Duane Morris LLP said. &#8220;I would think there would definitely be hesitancy around pursuing [an infringement case] right now.&#8221; [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>To read more of Mr. Gallagher&#8217;s comments and for a link to the full article, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/news\/how_covid-19_could_shake_up_patent_strategies_0420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus pandemic may spur new thinking about patent issues, as owners of relevant\u00a0patents\u00a0face the risk of backlash for asserting them, and companies developing\u00a0equipment\u00a0or treatments consider ways to limit potential liability. [\u2026] There has already been public outcry over patents related to\u00a0COVID-19, and such responses will likely grow in intensity if an effective treatment is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/07\/how-covid-19-could-shake-up-patent-strategies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How COVID-19 Could Shake Up Patent Strategies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[531,443,442,461],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liability","tag-patent-infringement","tag-patents","tag-treatment"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}