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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 »
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 »