The CAFC issued a decision today affirming in part and reversing in part a district court ruling that had found four patents covering digital picture frame technology ineligible under Section 101.

“The Federal Circuit noted that ‘there is no basis for using res judicata or collateral estoppel to prevent a judge from reconsidering an earlier ruling.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal ...

Liability and damages are separate legal questions, but too often only lip service is paid to that distinction, which leads to a sequencing error that can be ...

“The USPTO has let the regime invoke its own misconduct as an excuse for nonuse, rather than treating that misconduct as the disqualifying fact it should be.” On December 31, 1959, Calixto Lopez led ...

“We…reject Woodway’s attempt to recast a factual dispute as a claim construction issue to obtain de novo review.” On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

“[E]ven if the court had agreed to correct the alleged typo…[it] could simply have applied the reasoning of Ruschig and found that the original filing provided no ‘blaze marks’ for the proposed ...

“Golf clubs sit among the most heavily patented consumer goods categories in the world…. When an automaker enters this category, it isn’t entering a green field.” When the world’s best golfers descend ...

Lana Akopyan is an intellectual property attorney with Lana.Law and has more than 16 years of patent and IP strategy experience, including in-house counsel work for technology businesses. She has a ...

“Chinese multinationals and the Chinese Academy of Sciences claim four of the top five spots among generative AI patenting entities, [though] the top spot belongs to Japanese technology conglomerate ...

“The Federal Circuit explained that ‘a petitioner may not rely on a vague, generic, and/or meandering petition and later fault the Board for failing to understand what the petition really meant.’” The ...

“AI does not create a new patent panic category. It exposes two ordinary professional failures that AI makes easier to miss.” An inventor pastes an unfiled disclosure into a chatbot to clean up the ...

“I know from the perspective of industries that are comfortable with the status quo that change is concerning, but I believe that there are several innovations that will not come to be in this ...