Liability and damages are separate legal questions, but too often only lip service is paid to that distinction, which leads to a sequencing error that can be ...
“The USPTO has let the regime invoke its own misconduct as an excuse for nonuse, rather than treating that misconduct as the disqualifying fact it should be.” On December 31, 1959, Calixto Lopez led ...
“We…reject Woodway’s attempt to recast a factual dispute as a claim construction issue to obtain de novo review.” On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...
Yesterday, WIPO published a report on the global patent landscape for generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies ...
“[E]ven if the court had agreed to correct the alleged typo…[it] could simply have applied the reasoning of Ruschig and found that the original filing provided no ‘blaze marks’ for the proposed ...
When the Senate Judiciary Committee examines the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) this week, lawmakers won't simply ...
“Golf clubs sit among the most heavily patented consumer goods categories in the world…. When an automaker enters this category, it isn’t entering a green field.” When the world’s best golfers descend ...
This week on Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit found that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board did not violate the CAFC’s ...
“Here, [the Book of Wisdom doctrine] was ‘used to impute knowledge of later-occurring events affecting the value of the license that were unforeseeable at the time of negotiating.'” – Federal Circuit ...
The CAFC, in a precedential decision, on Thursday affirmed a district court ruling that found certain claims of Wyeth LLC’s ...
The mythology surrounding the act of invention tends to concentrate on the breakthrough moment. There is a flash of insight, a sketch is made on a cocktail napkin, the prototype is assembled in a ...