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On January 4, 2018, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions officially rescinded the so-called Cole Memo limiting federal prosecution of marijuana offenses.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...
On December 26, 2017, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied a request for rehearing en banc for reconsideration made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in a precedential decision....
On December 19, 2017, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published a news release formally retiring the ROMARIN trademark search database, and replacing it with the new Madrid...
On January 1, 2018, the largest market in the U.S. is set to begin licensing and commercializing adult-use marijuana. California’s adult-use marijuana start date is highly anticipated by many in the...
On December 15, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down its decision in In re Brunetti. In Brunetti, the Federal Circuit panel, consisting of Judges Moore,...