“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 ...

“[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 ...

“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 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a per curiam decision today in Tramec Sloan LLC v. Surti, dismissing an appeal brought by patent owner Tarun N. Surti after finding it ...

“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 ...

Lana Akopyan is an intellectual property attorney with Lana.Law and has more than 16 years of patent and IP strategy experience, including in-house counsel work for technology businesses. She has a ...

Yesterday, WIPO published a report on the global patent landscape for generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies ...

“The Federal Circuit explained that ‘a petitioner may not rely on a vague, generic, and/or meandering petition and later fault the Board for failing to understand what the petition really meant.’” The ...

“AI does not create a new patent panic category. It exposes two ordinary professional failures that AI makes easier to miss.” An inventor pastes an unfiled disclosure into a chatbot to clean up the ...