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Written by Jonathan Hyman and Loni Morrow
On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 the estate of Marilyn Monroe filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York... Read More »
Written by Lincoln Essig and Nora Marachelian
The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Synopsys, Inc. v. Mentor Graphics Corp., Case No. 2015-1599 (Fed... Read More »
Written by Jason Jardine and Jane Dai
On November 7, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appeal from a Third Circuit decision finding that a... Read More »
Written by Jeff Van Hoosear and Diana Wade
Note: An Addendum has been added to this previously published article.
In February of 2013, high-end jeweler... Read More »
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Jan 5, 2017
Written by: Jonathan Hyman and Loni L. Morrow
The closely watched case of Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands was argued in front of the the Supreme Court on Monday, ... Read More »
Written by Brenden Gringrich and Jane Xia
On October 20, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued yet another opinion finding that the Patent Trial and Appeal... Read More »
Written by Robb Roby and Samantha Markley
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. asked the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) to reconsider its rejection of an application... Read More »
Written by Scott Siera, Ph.D. and Agnes Juang, Ph.D.
Patent applications containing nucleic acid or protein sequences are required to include an electronic... Read More »
Written by Linda Xu and Andrew Schwaab
In a recent article, we discussed how courts have used patent specifications in finding that patents satisfy the... Read More »
Written by Rebecca Wright, Ph.D. and Curtiss Dosier
In 2006, Warner Bros. filed suit against A.V.E.L.A., X One X Productions, and ArtNostalgia.com, Inc... Read More »
This week our Data Science Team decided to go one step further and review the Institution Denial rate for patents challenged from 2012 through 2015. We learned that... Read More »
Courts have decided many recent Alice challenges based on whether the invention at hand is “physical” or not. Others determine patent-eligibility based on ... Read More »
In Unwired Planet, LLC, v. Google, Inc., [2015-1812] (November 21, 2016) the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the PTAB’s final written decision in Covered... Read More »
Every month the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) releases their AIA Trial statistics which includes the Inter-Partes Review (IPR) denial and institution rates as... Read More »
Patent litigants or other “real parties in interest” are estopped from asserting invalidity challenges in federal court “on any ground that the... Read More »
An interesting phenomenon is the use of trademarks to own current events. Every major event seems to be followed by a series of trademarks... Read More »
The size of businesses sued most frequently for patent infringement in 2016 were significantly larger than in 2015, when five little-known patent holders were among... Read More »
Over the past couple of weeks, our Data Science Team has focused on analyzing the USPTO examiners’ data as well as different Art Units. This week, we decided to ... Read More »
Patent-eligibility of “physical” claims can be misleading. After all, a general purpose computer is a physical object but does not impart patentability to ... Read More »
This week, Patexia Data Science team expanded the USPTO examiner study from last week to identify the Art Units with the highest and lowest allowance rates. Art Unit... Read More »