By the time students reach college, many have already decided whether science or engineering is "for them." Those decisions are rarely based on aptitude alone.

International patent law has long operated on a simple, geographic truce: US courts evaluate and enforce US patents, and foreign national courts evaluate and enforce their patents.

The Skky decision falls within the body of law regarding "rebutting" a means-plus-function presumption, although the Skky court chose not to use that specific language.

The Federal Circuit, in Arthrex, concluded that the Patent and Trial Appeal Board's Administrative Patent Judges were unconstitutionally appointed "principal" officers.

Last year, a district court applied the doctrine of collateral estoppel to dismiss an infringement suit after the Patent Trial and Appeal Board decided to cancel the asserted patent's claims in an inter partes review.

On June 30th, the Federal Circuit granted a petition for re-hearing en banc in LKQ Corp. v. GM Global Tech. Operations LLC.1 LKQ, an auto parts repair vendor for GM, successfully petitioned for inter partes review...

If the Federal Circuit's decision in Arthrex wasn't sufficiently newsworthy, then look at what lurks in its wake.

The Patent Office is not supposed to issue separate patents for the same invention to competing inventors. Several statutory provisions empower the Office to reject pre-AIA patent application claims of the later inventor.

Efforts to patent 3D printing technology are frequently the subject of articles on this website. Preparing and filing a U.S. utility patent application

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as ChatGPT, can output new content based on user input.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovations that use biometrics data are on the rise. While the Intellectual Property (IP) potential for such innovations is vast

Virtual Reality (VR)-related patents are expected to rise with the onset of the Metaverse.

AI-related inventions have experienced explosive growth.

In Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC, et al., Justice Thomas, writing for a 7-2 majority of the Supreme Court, explained that inter partes review proceedings do not violate Article III or...

In some instances, software-based patent applications can fail to include a sufficient algorithm describing "how" the software interacts with the underlying hardware of the invention.

The Patent and Trial Appeal Board designated as precedential two opinions with opposite outcomes on the issue of discretionary denial of inter partes review petitions under 35 U.S.C. §314(a) in July.

Back in 2016, the Federal Circuit held that a petitioner retains the ability, after an adverse Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision, to assert un-instituted invalidity grounds it presented in its petition.

PatentNext Summary: Software and computer-implemented inventions (CII) have experienced explosive growth in recent years. This article looks at laws of jurisdictions in Southeast Asia...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) typically involves certain common aspects such as training data and AI models trained from that training data.

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by OpenAI. In particular, ChatGPT is a type of "language" model designed to respond with a natural language reply when prompted...