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On May 14, 2021, ALJ David P. Shaw issued the public version of his initial determination finding no violation of section 337 in Certain Smart Thermostats, Smart HVAC Systems, and Components Thereof.

On October 7, 2021, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued a notice regarding his initial determination ("ID") of no violation of section 337 in Certain Electronic Stud Finders, Metal Detectors...

On September 3, 2021, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued the public version (see Part I, Part II, Part III) of Order No. 24 granting Complainants Hydro Flask Steel Technology, LLC d/b/a Hydro Flask...

On November 10, 2021, the ITC issued a notice of its final determination finding a violation of section 337 in Certain Electronic Devices, Including Streaming Players, Televisions, Set Top Boxes...

On August 11, 2022, the Federal Circuit issued its opinion in the remand of Hologic, Inc. v Minerva Surgical, Inc. from the Supreme Court's decision limiting the application of assignor...

On March 18, the Commission issued a Notice of Final Determination finding a violation of section 337 and general exclusion order ("GEO") in Certain Shaker Screens for Drilling Fluids, Components Thereof, and Related Marketing Materials (Inv. No. 337-TA-1184).

In its new 101 Guidance, the USPTO explains that a claim reciting "a judicial exception is not ‘directed to' the judicial exception if the judicial exception is integrated into a practical application of the judicial exception."

The NHK-Fintiv rule allows the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to deny institution of an inter partes review petition based on the progress of a parallel U.S.

Last month, the Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court of Delaware's decision in Persion Pharmaceuticals v. Alvogen invalidating as obvious two Persion patents.

The doctrine of equivalents is an equitable exception to the basic concept that the patent claims define the limit of claim protection.

In July, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board designated its ex parte Jung decision as informative (see here and here). In this decision, the Board held that the phrase

On February 20, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a decision regarding recombinant DNA subject-matter eligibility, reversing a decision by the United States District Court...

In a 7-2 decision in Thryv, Inc. v. Click-to-Call Technologies, LP (opinion here), the Supreme Court has determined that the PTO's application of 35 U.S.C. § 315(b)

Following last week's post on this blog (AI Patent Trends in the U.S. Patent Office: Is the U.S. Losing Its Lead?), we look deeper into the filing data of AI applications to better understand how...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has finalized fee increases set to take effect on January 19, 2025.

Following the Supreme Court's June decision in U.S. v. Arthrex, which reigned in the "unreviewable authority wielded by the APJs during inter partes review[s],"...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently added a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based "Similarity Search" feature to the prior art search tools available to examiners.

On August 1, 2022, the USPTO officially replaced its Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR) system with its new Patent Center system.