On May 18, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court released its long-awaited decision in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, which touches on a formal requirement for patentability, the enablement requirement. In a...
In a potentially ground-breaking decision in design patent prosecution, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down In re Maatita, on August 20, 2018. The facts are as follows. Ron...
On April 19, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down Droplets, Inc. v. E\Trade Bank*, in a case dealing with the formal issue of preparing a proper claim of priority in the...
On March 14, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Hologic, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., which deals with many areas in patents, including foreign applications, priority...
On March 1, 2018, in a fairly convoluted and highly fractured decision, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) was not bound to collateral...
As of February 14, 2018, at last count, there have been six substantive opinions rendered by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit relating to 35 U.S.C. §101, creating an unusually large body...
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...