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

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

I started pulling at a loose bristle this week and ended up doing a deep dive into the history of the American toothbrush. I came across a Library of Congress explanation that H.N. Wadsworth of ...

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.

In December 2025, Director Squires invited applicants to begin filing special Rule 132 declarations focused on patent eligibility. He called these Subject Matter Eligibility Declarations, or SMEDs.

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 ...

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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, ...

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

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