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Recent actions by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and remarks by USPTO Director John Squires suggest that the USPTO will be welcoming toward inventions involving artificial intelligence (AI). The USPTO Appeals Review Panel (ARP) decision i… Read More

John Squires, the director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has sent a memo to all administrative patent judges (APJs) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) informing them that the USPTO was restoring the practice of requ… Read More

Here’s a summary of some of the top patent law developments in the last year. Artificial Intelligence and Patents In November, as Reuters reported, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued new guidelines on when inventions created with the… Read More

Europe’s Unified Patent Court (UPC) has issued its first injunction in a case involving Standards Essential Patents (SEPs). The case is Philips v. Belkin (German original). (An English machine translation of the decision can be read here.) The UPC… Read More

The Federal Circuit has issued a decision reversing a district court’s denial of judgment as a matter of law regarding noninfringement of a radio-related patent. The court also vacated a significant damage award in favor of Finesse Wireless LLC. As… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a $3.5 million district court jury award in favor of Dynamite Marketing, Inc. for infringement of its US Patent No. D751,877. As the court explained, In early 2013, Alexander Shlaferman (“Shlaferman”), the princip… Read More

The Federal Circuit has reversed in part and affirmed in part a district court decision finding Sonos’s patent claims for controlling media playback systems invalid. The court reversed the district court’s decision that Google was prejudiced by S… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) in the first appeal of a derivation proceeding under the America Invents Act (AIA) litigated at the Board. The case is Global Health Solutions LLC v. S… Read More