Way back on August 25, 2017, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office designated Ex parte McAward as precedential authority for defining the USPTO and the PTAB’s policy on assessing indefiniteness as...
Many of us patent practitioners like to think we are somewhat immune to politics, but unfortunately that is not always the case. As the threat of a government shutdown looms later today, January 19,...
On January 16, 2018, in a non-precedential per curiam order (the order was not published, but was made available from our colleagues at the Patently-O blog), the United States Court of Appeals for...
On January 10, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down Finjan, Inc. v. Blue Coat Systems, Inc. Finjan sued Blue Coat, a subsidiary of rival Symantec Corp., for patent...
On January 8, 2018, the USPTO quietly issued a notice that beginning on January 16, 2018, all reissue patent family members, as well as the original parent patent from which the reissue...
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) releases data and statistics compiled over the world of various intellectual properties each year. These include patent, trademark, industrial...
One January 8, 2018, the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit issued Wi-Fi One, LLC v. Broadcom Corp., in which the en banc panel held the PTAB decision to institute or not an inter partes review...
As we await a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of IPRs before the PTAB at the USPTO, I reviewed two related points relevant to the underlying discussion in Oil States...
On January 4, 2018, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions officially rescinded the so-called Cole Memo limiting federal prosecution of marijuana offenses. The Cole Memo was enacted in 2013 under...
Back in May 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in T.C. Heartland, LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, that patent venue selection was limited to the defendant’s state of incorporation or principal...