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USPTO Ends Remote PTAB Hearings Effective September 1

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced that, effective September 1, all PTAB hearings will be conducted in person at USPTO offices, marking a departure from the virtual and hybrid formats adopted in recent...more

Federal Circuit Narrows Scope of IPR Estoppel, Resolving District Court Split

The Federal Circuit recently clarified in Ingenico Inc. v. IOENGINE, LLC that inter partes review (IPR) estoppel does not extend to physical systems described in prior art patents or printed publications....more

Designers Beware: Prior Utility Patent Lacking Written Support Can Anticipate Later-Filed Design Patents

In its recent In re Floyd opinion, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a decision by Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to reject a design applicant’s priority claim to an earlier utility filing for...more

EUIPO Rejects Thom Browne’s Four-Stripe Design Mark as Decorative, Not Distinctive

The European Union (EU) Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has refused to register Thom Browne’s position trademark consisting of four horizontal white stripes placed on the upper left sleeve of garments....more

Federal Circuit Sinks Appeal Over Design Patent Claiming Well-Known Pool Features

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmed a summary judgment of no design patent infringement in North Star Tech. Int’l Ltd. v. Latham Pool Products, Inc., ruling that the patented and accused pool...more

Federal Circuit Refuses to Extend IPR Estoppel to Unadjudicated Patent Claims

In Kroy IP Holdings, LLC v. Groupon, Inc., 127 F.4th 1376 (Fed. Cir. 2025), the Federal Circuit held that patentees in district court are not collaterally estopped from asserting claims that were not immaterially different...more

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