This is an update to my September post on the Supreme Court's patent docket. The big news is the denial of certiorari in the IPR discretionary denial case of Google LLC v. VirtaMove, Corp., No.
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Allergan is a frequent player of jurisdictional games. Its corporate “headquarters” is in Dublin for the tax benefits, ...
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The hearing featured testimony from former USPTO Directors Andrei Iancu and David Kappos, China IP expert Mark Cohen, biotech ...
Treating strength as factual sends it to the jury for trial, makes summary judgment harder to win, and secures deferential ...