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A few weeks ago we reported a sharp decline in patent litigation in 2016 of more than 20 percent. However, activity for Inter-Partes Review (IPR) remained basically... Read More »
Written by Peter Law, Jason J. Jardine and Loni Morrow
On January 5, 2017, Skechers U.S.A., Inc. filed a petition with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to... Read More »
Written by Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D. and Michael L. Fuller
On January 19, 2017, the Board issued a final written decision in World Bottling Cap, LLC v Crown... Read More »
Before turning to 2017 news, we’ll first briefly catch up on a few stories from December.
In early December, the Brazilian green patent priority... Read More »
The doctrine of definiteness requires a patent to clearly state what the inventor considers to be their invention. Of course, the PTAB interprets various claim terms... Read More »
Written by Paul Chang, Ph.D. and Brenden Gingrich, Ph.D.
Anticipation by inherent disclosure requires that a single prior art reference necessarily includes the... Read More »
Last week we published patent litigation stats for 2016 as we learned that the numbers of District Court Cases had declined more than 20 percent compared to 2015... Read More »
Written by Marc Chatenay-Lapointe, Ph.D. and Michael L. Fuller
On December 23, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved SPINRAZA™ (nusinersen)... Read More »
Written by Charlene Azema and Jonathan Hyman
On December 22, 2016, the Second Circuit gave tote bag manufacturer My Other Bag an early Christmas present by... Read More »
Since 2012, IPRs have emerged as one of the most significant developments in intellectual property. Even if you are already familiar with IPRs, these videos... Read More »
Last year we saw a sharp decline in patent litigation. Q4 ended with 21 percent drop compared to Q4 of 2015. In 2016, total of 5,086 patent lawsuits were filed across ... Read More »
The Federal Circuit recently vacated a Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) decision that found obvious several claims of a patent application relating to... Read More »
Written by Jeffrey C. Wu, Ph.D. and Dan Hart, Ph.D.
I. Overview
The December 8, 2016 passage of the 21st ... Read More »
Written by Lauren Hockett and Vlad Teplitskiy
In the wake of Alice[1] the waters of eligibility under section 101 can be challenging to navigate, and particularly ... Read More »
Written by Eric S. Furman, Ph.D. and Caleb A. Bates, Ph.D.
On November 21, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld a 2014 jury verdict for... Read More »
Written by Susan Natland and Jonathan Menkes
In a case before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”), the Board cancelled and abandoned the... Read More »
Written by Bridget Smith and Damien Howard
For the third time in two months, the Federal Circuit took on patent subject-matter eligibility in Amdocs (ISRAEL) Ltd. ... Read More »
Written by Ted Cannon and Brian Graham
The Mayo/Alice two-step patent-eligibility framework focuses on the patent claims. Nevertheless, recent Federal... Read More »
Written by Jonathan Hyman and Scott Forbes
In 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected shoe manufacturer Adidas’s application to trademark the... Read More »
Written by Cheryl Burgess and Jeremy Anapol
The increased prominence of Section 101 in computer-related patent disputes stems from the Supreme Court case of Alice ... Read More »