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The Federal Circuit has denied a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to direct the district court to dismiss or transfer the underlying case based on improper venue, finding that remote workers living in the district can satisfy the venue statute… Read More

On September 30, 2022, President Biden signed into law the SBIR and STTR Extension Act of 2022, just one day before the funding authorization for these programs was set to expire. As the press release notes, S. 4900 reauthorizes the Small Business In… Read More

In a recent case before the Federal Circuit, INVT SPE LLC (INVT) appealed from a determination by the International Trade Commission (Commission or ITC) that Apple Inc., HTC Corporation, HTC America, Inc., ZTE Corporation, and ZTE (USA) Inc. did not… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a ruling by the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) that a prior art reference was not “by another” under the terms of (pre-AIA) 35 U.S.C. § 102(e). Under 35 U.S. Code § 102, “novelty” is a condition for p… Read More

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have announced that they will collaborate to improve efficiency in resolving disputes related to standard-essential patents (SEPs). As the USPTO explai… Read More

The office of Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), the Ranking Member of the Senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee, has released a first draft of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act, which would overrule the US Supreme Court’s patent eligibility deci… Read More

The US Senate voted 64 to 33 in favor of passing the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act. Parallel legislation passed in the House of Representatives on the same day and the bill was sent to the White House f… Read More

As the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) explains, A trademark can be any word, phrase, symbol, design, or a combination of these things that identifies your goods or services. Although most people think of trademarks as things like words (Coca-… Read More