USPTO and IU Maurer announce a Spring 2027 PTAB Law School Moot Court Competition: one brief, APJ panels, and an in-person final in Alexandria.
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, ...
The USPTO issued 315,825 utility patents in FY2026, down 3.8% from FY2025. About half of this drop is due to a calendar ...
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.” ...
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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 ...
The “optimization” claims of US8842761 and US10693700 are ineligible under § 101; The “constellation” claims of US11019509 and US11018922 are eligible; The infringement verdict stands (denial of JMOL ...
New data from the USPTO shows that the amazing transformation in patent inventorship continues: the average number of inventors per utility patent has reached 3.2 in 2024, nearly double the 1.7 ...
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