Last week, in Natural Alternatives International, Inc. v. Creative Compounds, LLC, the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granting a motion for...more
Last month, in Ni-Q, LLC v. Prolacta Bioscience, Inc., District Judge Michael H. Simon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon granted a motion for summary judgment filed by Plaintiff Ni-Q, LLC that the asserted...more
Last month, in Federal Register notices published on the same day (84 Fed. Reg. 411), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was extending the Cancer Immunotherapy Pilot Program, but that it had decided to...more
In a Patent Alert e-mail distributed earlier today, February 14, 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that "[d]ue to recent technical issues, the PKI authentication and migration deadlines associated with the...more
Last week, in Athena Diagnostics, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC, the Federal Circuit affirmed the decision by the District Court for the District of Massachusetts, holding claims 6-9 of U.S. Patent No. 7,267,820...more
A bill introduced in the House last July by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) (at right), which could adversely impact pharmaceutical manufacturers holding drug patents, is starting to draw the attention of those outside the patent...more
Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released its FY 2018 Performance and Accountability Report. In describing the USPTO's strategic and performance-planning framework, the 2018 Report notes that the Office issued...more
Last week, in In re Ikeda Food Research Co., the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirming the Examiner's rejection in an ex parte reexamination of...more
Last June, the Supreme Court determined that $93.4 million in lost foreign profits awarded to WesternGeco L.L.C. for infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(2) was a permissible domestic application of 35 U.S.C. § 284, and the...more
Last week, in Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Iancu, the Federal Circuit reversed the entry of summary judgment by the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which concluded that the U.S. Patent and Trademark...more
After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its 12th annual list of top patent stories. For 2018, we identified fifteen stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe...more
After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its 12th annual list of top patent stories. For 2018, we identified fifteen stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe...more
Earlier this month, in Gensetix, Inc. v. Baylor College of Medicine, District Judge Andrew S. Hanen of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued an Order granting a Motion to Dismiss Pursuant to Fed....more
Practitioners who have been putting off migrating their current PKI digital certificates to their USPTO.gov accounts or sponsoring support staff received an early holiday gift from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on...more
As reported by numerous media outlets, the U.S. Senate adjourned this afternoon without coming to an agreement on a continuing resolution to fund the United States Government. The government shutdown is the third shutdown of...more
Today, December 12, 2018, in In re Tropp, the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirming the Examiner's rejection of claims 29-53 of U.S....more
Last month, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu issued a notice on the "Authentication Changes for Registered Users of EFS-Web and Private PAIR." Although most of the information provided in the Director's...more
Last month, in FWP IP ApS v. Biogen MA, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board granting Biogen's motion that FWP's U.S. Application No. 11/576,871...more
In a Notification published in the Federal Register earlier this month (83 Fed. Reg. 55102), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the implementation of an interim procedure for patentees to request recalculation of...more
While the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has yet to receive any patent applications describing inventions for dealing with a widespread rise of zombies (other than hi-tech "zombie" servers, virtual machines, processes,...more
USPTO Introduces New Homepage -
In a USPTO Alert e-mail distributed today, October 25, 2018, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the release of a new homepage, which the Office indicated was "part of a larger...more
Last month, in Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. TWi Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey finding that U.S. Patent Nos. 7,722,898; 7,910,131;...more
Last week, in Natural Alternatives International, Inc. v. Iancu, the Federal Circuit affirmed a determination by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board in an inter partes reexamination affirming...more
On Monday, October 1, 2018, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the implementation of a new authentication method for signing into the EFS-Web and Private PAIR. According to the Office, the new method is safer and...more
District Court Refuses to Limit Application of In re Cray to Factual Circumstances Where Physical Products Are Involved -
Last month, in VoIP-Pal.com, Inc. v. Twitter, Inc., District Judge Richard F. Boulware, II of the...more