United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal on April 19 vacated a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that had denied institution of an inter partes re...
As the hit sitcom Young Sheldon comes to an end next month, a look back at the series offers an opportunity for young inventors to learn about inventorship. The coming-of-age show centers around ...
Times are changing at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)! Not only are there rumors that the Senate IP Subcommittee may be a matter of several weeks away from marking up the PREVAIL Act and...
https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/04/18/thoughts-usptos-nprm-not-bad-big-challenges-remain/id=175426/
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that will be officially published in the Federal Register tomorrow and that addresses a subset ...
https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/04/18/uspto-publishes-long-awaited-proposed-rule-ptab-changes/id=175422/
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that it will be publishing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) tomorrow aimed at formalizing the rules governing Director Review of...
https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/04/15/uspto-proposes-director-review-process-official/id=175325/
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced guidance for practitioners and the public regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the preparation of filings for submissi...
https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/04/10/uspto-ai-guidance-highlights-risks-practitioners-public/id=175209/
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal vacated and remanded a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) on Friday that had denied institution of an inter partes ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Wednesday affirmed a number of district court orders against inventor Urvashi Bhagat, whose patent application was rejected by the U....
In a nod to Mark Twain’s famous quote, the rumors of the death of IP Edge are greatly exaggerated. It appears the prolific NPE aggregator has either sold or transferred at least one portfolio (...
After VLSI Technology filed a complaint against Patent Quality Assurance (PQA) and its representative, Joseph Uradnik, in the Circuit Court of the City of Alexandria in late January this year, Ur...
https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/04/01/vlsi-pqa-saga-continues-virginia-county-federal-courts/id=174779/
In a precedential decision authored by Chief Judge Moore, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Wednesday partially reversed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) ruling th...
It's rare that a federal policy inspires fierce opposition from both sides of the aisle. But the Biden administration's recent proposal to gut the Bayh-Dole Act is doing exactly that. Bayh-Dole i...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) on Wednesday, March 20, denied APPLE JAZZ mark owner Charles Bertini’s petition to cancel Apple, Inc.’s mark APPLE for entertainment services. Whil...
https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/03/21/apple-jazz-trademark-owner-strikes-latest-ttab-ruling/id=174533/
It was a below-average week in both the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and in district courts this week for new patent filings, with only 27—all inter partes review (IPR)—at the PTAB an...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Tuesday, March 19, issued a memo for all patent examiners reiterating its current practices and resources for examining means-plus-function and ste...