The Federal Circuit has vacated a PTAB obviousness rejection of a catheter claim, holding that the Board's reading of the claim term "flow barrier" was unreasonably broad. In re Incept LLC, No.

Apple has asked the Supreme Court to review the Federal Circuit's decision upholding the ITC's import ban on Apple Watches with blood-oxygen sensing. Apple Inc. v. ITC, No. 26-316 (petition filed Sept ...

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 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 ...

I'm delivering a U.S. patent law year-in-review for the past year or so. Here are Nine of the topics that deserve some focus. 1. The New USPTO under President Trump: The greatest ongoing issue is the ...

Charles H. Duell was the Commissioner of US patent office in 1899. Mr. Deull's most famous attributed utterance is that "everything that can be invented has been invented." Most patent attorneys have ...

It seems a bit crazy to me that almost every patent case involves a process of claim construction. Those claims were already drafted by skilled patent attorneys and survived a rigorous examination ...

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The PTAB concluded “clinically proven effective” was non-limiting, reasoning that because the claims already recited specific dosage amounts (2.5 mg rivaroxaban twice daily and 75-100 mg aspirin daily ...

This week the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment, No. 24-171, while denying the competing petition in Sony Music Entertainment v. Cox ...

This post digs into the pending mandamus action In re SAP. In the case, SAP raises a constitutional challenge to Director Stewart’s aggressive discretionary denial approach — as a violation of both ...

The Supreme Court has called for a response in Agilent Technologies, Inc. v. Synthego Corp., No. 25-570, a petition that challenges foundational assumptions about the use of prior art references. The ...