Supreme Court denies VirtaMove without holding it for Tesla, Kahoot!, Intel, or FedEx. Plus new petitions on post-expiration royalties and § 101.

I have been parsing ex parte PTAB decisions - about 130 k for this post running from 2009 through September 2026 - looking particularly at the eligibility cases. The short version: eligibility is ...

Blind AI readers forecast four pending Federal Circuit appeals, including Samsung v. ITC and Taylor Made v. Costco, after a ...

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.

My October 18 post looked at Section 101 in PTAB ex parte appeals. This one looks at the other rejection types, using the same parsed decisions plus a rejection-by-rejection reading of the 35 thousand ...

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 ...

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

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

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

This post updates my September 21, 2026 post on FY2026 utility grants that was projecting out to end of the FY. The year is now over. I have also added two new cuts of the data: published applications ...

Crocs has asked the Supreme Court to decide when a single agency decision (by the ITC) becomes final for purposes of appeal. Crocs, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, No. 26-421. The underlying ...