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.

Back in May 2026, I wrote that Williamson found its mark. After the Federal Circuit’s 2015 en banc decision, functional claims that rely upon a function coupled with a generic noun such as “module” or ...

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 ...

AIA has overstepped its boundaries on constitutional grounds as patents are private rights. All patent owners are entitled to ...

Best Practices: With the compressed issuance timeline, a growing number of patent practitioners are moving to a standard ...

Crocs asks the Supreme Court whether one ITC determination can start two appeal clocks after the Federal Circuit dismissed ...

The Federal Circuit has affirmed the PTAB’s cancellation of all six claims of Zentian’s speech-recognition patent in a short ...

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, ...

A fundamental aspect of the U.S. patent system is its lack of moral judgment. I am doing research for a separate project that involves reading a large number of old documents. Today I came across an ...

Requests for continued examination are climbing again. Applicants filed nearly 150k RCEs in published utility applications over the 12 months ending August 2026, up 13% from the prior 12 months. That ...

Since Congress created the Federal Circuit in 1982, the court has repeatedly expanded the class of cases that, in its view, “arise under” patent law and so fall within its exclusive jurisdiction. The ...