Decoding Motivation To Combine Principles In Key Rulings
By Scott B. Amankwatia "Decoding Motivation to Combine Principles in Key Rulings" as published in the 2023 APELLATE YEAR IN REVIEW from the PTAB Bar Association (Download [...]
Federal Circuit Refuses Patentee’s Request to Revive Term-Adjusted Patent Claims Held Unpatentable for Obviousness-Type Double Patenting
By Michelle E. O’Brien and Tom Irving The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today affirmed the U.S. Patent Office’s findings that claims in four [...]
Federal Circuit Takes Rare Step of Sending Issue of Obviousness Back to PTAB in Ex Parte Appeal
By Scott Amankwatia, Michelle E. O’Brien, and Tom Irving The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the Patent Trial and Appeal [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Finds Against Amgen: The More You Claim the More You Must Enable; The Result of Being too Obscure, Loose, and Imperfect
By Tom Irving and Michelle E. O’Brien In a much-anticipated decision, today the Supreme Court affirmed [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Teva’s Petition for Certiorari in Skinny Label Case
By Tom Irving and Michelle E. O’Brien As the co-authors predicted in their presentation at the [...]
The Indefinite Article “A” “Said” What?? Pitfalls in Claim Drafting in view of Salazar v. AT&T Mobility LLC
By Christine Norris, Michelle E. O’Brien, and Tom Irving The simple one letter word, “a” continues to [...]
USPTO Issues Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Discretionary Institution Practices, Petition Word-Count Limits, and Settlement Practices for America Invents Act Trial Proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal PTAB
By Michelle O’Brien, Bob Hansen, and Tom Irving The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has [...]
Good Employee Agreements Can Help Defend Trade Secrets
Trade Secrets protect information: 1) that a business has taken reasonable measures to keep secret; and 2) [...]
On Chatbots
2022 was a great year for research into advanced computing. The company OpenAI (https://openai.com) made DALL-E and [...]