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USPTO Launches Task Force to Combat Patent Fraud and Protect the Patent System

Womble Bond Dickinson on 5/1/2025

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced the creation of the Patent Fraud Detection and Mitigation Working Group. The working group is designed to identify and address threats to the patent system as...more

Patent Directed to Countering Credit Card Fraud is an Invalid Abstract Idea Under Section 101

Holland & Knight LLP on 2/15/2021

In the case of In Re: SARADA MOHAPATRA, Appellant, No. 2020-1935, 2021 WL 408755 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 5, 2021), Sarada Mohapatra sought to overturn a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), holding that his patent...more

Intellectual Property Bulletin - Summer 2020

Fenwick & West LLP on 8/5/2020

In This Issue - Inventorship, Patenting and AI: The Public Comments on Patenting Artificial Intelligence Inventions - Interest in artificial intelligence has become so keen that questions previously found only in works...more

5 Patent Law Petitions to Watch at the Supreme Court

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP on 5/28/2019

As the 2018-2019 Supreme Court term nears its end, several consequential patent law petitions still await certiorari rulings before the Justices recess for the summer, while other patent cases are scheduled to be briefed and...more

If Considered Material, False Statements Made to Federal Regulatory Bodies Create Exposure to Criminal Liability - United States...

McDermott Will & Emery on 11/4/2015

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed a conviction for making a false statement to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), holding that a false statement is not material if it could not influence the...more

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