The USPTO issued 315,825 utility patents in FY2026, down 3.8% from FY2025. About half of this drop is due to a calendar ...
Crocs asks the Supreme Court whether one ITC determination can start two appeal clocks after the Federal Circuit dismissed ...
Final FY2026 numbers: 315,825 utility grants, continuing applications at 26% of grants, US-origin share at 39%, published applications down 6%, and cross-border inventor teams on a record 10.7% of ...
Back in May 2023 I wrote a short post about the University of Texas study that used a GPT-style language model to reconstruct the gist of stories from fMRI scans (An API for the Human Mind, May 6, ...
Don’t Judge a Range by its Cover: Federal Circuit Sides with Patentee on Written Description Support
by Dennis Crouch In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit held that a claimed range reciting narrower values than those described in the patent specification can still satisfy the written description ...
The case stems from the dispute between Ericsson and Lenovo over licenses to their respective portfolios of patents essential to the 5G wireless telecommunications standards (standards-essential ...
FedEx has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether any court can make the Patent Office follow 35 U.S.C. § 312(a)(2), the requirement that an IPR petitioner identify “all real parties in interest.” ...
The defining patent law story of 2025 was major slowdown (even shutdown) of inter partes review as a viable patent challenge mechanism. What began as expanded discretionary denial authority under ...
Our guest author today is a very bright high school student, Kavya Gundlapalli, who is considering a career in law. – DC Guest Post by Kavya Gundlapalli* As America heads toward the 2024 presidential ...
Professor John Duffy (UVA) appears to be in line to take over as USPTO General Counsel. GC is the Director's principal legal advisor and runs an office of about 130 lawyers that include the Office of ...
The Trump administration is reportedly considering a radical transformation of the US patent system that would replace the current flat-fee maintenance structure with a percentage-based “property tax” ...
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