The Patent Office recently announced that it will begin enforcing a rule that requires that inter partes review (IPR) petitions “specify where each element of the claim is found in the prior art ...

February 7, 2024 - Recent changes to the process of requesting review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions has given practitioners new options and led to significant changes in both the ...

A Justice Department letter accusing the US Patent and Trademark Office of restarting an “illegal” application review program is enough to reopen discovery in inventors’ privacy lawsuit against the ...

The US Patent Office reaffirms that patents cannot be granted to artificial intelligence. However, it clarifies that the utilization of an AI system by a human does not prevent an individual from ...

But ‘the use of an AI system by a natural person does not preclude a natural person from qualifying as an inventor.’ But ‘the use of an AI system by a natural person does not preclude a natural person ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Over the past year, the U.S. patent system has shown ...

See 99 other Coke patents here. It was exactly a century ago Monday that the U.S. Patent Office granted design patent No.

From America’s founding days, fierce debates have defined our country’s experiment in democracy. Yet, even from the start, Americans of all political factions have found common ground in a simple idea ...

Over a decade ago, I co-authored the bipartisan Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to modernize our patent system. One of its key reforms was the creation of a streamlined panel inside the U.S. Patent ...