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

The fiscal year that ended September 30, 2026 closed with about 450 IPR petitions, a third of the 1,400 filed in FY2025 and even fewer than the 510 filed in FY2013, the program's first full year.

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 ...

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

In an important trademark law and free speech decision, the Supreme Court held in Vidal v. Elster, 602 U.S. ___ (2024), that ...

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Allergan is a frequent player of jurisdictional games. Its corporate “headquarters” is in Dublin for the tax benefits, ...

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