Just three months ago, Acting Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Coke Morgan Stewart rescinded existing guidelines governing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB) discretion to deny petitions for...more
6/24/2025
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International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
New Guidance ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Post-Grant Review ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
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Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have reshaped our socio-legal understanding of "property." Prior to the launch of NFTs, laypersons and lawyers alike evaluated tangible and intangible assets in the context of physical (real) space....more
6/27/2024
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Copyright ,
Copyright Office ,
Copyright Registration ,
Digital Assets ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Inventions ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Patents ,
Tokenization ,
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Introduction - Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has dominated headlines for nearly all of 2023 and demonstrated that it has the potential to disrupt the economic landscape by displacing jobs and creating remarkable...more