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This coming Wednesday, September 9th brings the return of Practising Law Institute's Advanced PTAB Trial Strategies.

On May 22, 2019, a bipartisan group from the House and Senate released a draft framework reforming Sections 101 and 112 of the Patent Act (here).

All you want for Xmas is PTAB CLE, admit it! Lucky for you there are two programs to choose from this week.

In a long-awaited move with broad implications for brand owners, on Monday, June 20, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved plans to launch a potentially unlimited number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs).

Back in January, I identified the Board's expanding view of 314(a) discretion as the most significant development of 2018.

The sponsors of the promised bill to reform 35 U.S.C. § 101 are struggling to regain earlier momentum.

At the federal district court the requesting party can simply lay out a reasoned basis for trying to seek certain categories of information. At the Board, though, an attorney needs to begin with a threshold piece of evidence as a starting point.

On the heels of its precedent of a week or so back, the PTAB is adding more to the swirling hairball known as the "Fintiv factors." First, the Board has clarified that agreeing to IPR estoppel...

PTAB Designates Two Older Decisions as Precedential, Updates Hearing Rooms/Notices

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today the appointment of Scott Boalick as Chief Judge for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

A few weeks back I pointed out that the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) had changed its position on whether or not a new RPI designation requires a resetting of the petition filing date.

Today, the USPTO officially launched the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB) Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP). LEAP is designed to foster development

Today, the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) designated two ex parte appeal decision informative, Ex parte Spangler, Appeal No. 2018-003800 (Feb. 20, 2019)

As explained earlier this week in a study by my partner Filko Prugo, Orange & Purple Book patents fare no worse at the PTAB than in the courts.

The Stronger Patents Act just wont go away. While the bill has been introduced several times over the years

Not surprisingly, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) again extended the time to file certain patent and trademark-related documents and to pay certain required fees

Today, the USPTO announced revised guidance for subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 (here). The USPTO also announced guidance on the application of 35 U.S.C.

The first challenge in designing either an inter partes review petition or a covered business method patent petition is to decide which claims to address before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.