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Federal Circuit: Remote Workers Support Patent Venue
January 5th, 2023
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…
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Funding for Small Business Innovation Extended
January 4th, 2023
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…
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Federal Circuit: No Infringement without Analyzing Environment
December 9th, 2022
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…
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Federal Circuit Affirms Prior Art Was Not Reference “By Another”
December 7th, 2022
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…
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USPTO and WIPO to Pool Resources for Standards-Essential Patent Disputes
December 1st, 2022
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…
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Senator Introduces Bill to Overrule Supreme Court Patent Decisions
November 29th, 2022
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…
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CHIPS and Science Act Spurs Semiconductor Investments
November 22nd, 2022
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…
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How Wimbledon Trademarked its Colors
November 14th, 2022
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-…
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Patent Office Issues Interim Guidance on Discretionary Denials
November 10th, 2022
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued new, binding interim guidance on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) discretionary denials of PTAB petitions. As the memo notes, Congress designed the America Invents Act (AIA) post-g…
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Patent Office Announces Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program
November 7th, 2022
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced a Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program to expedite examination of certain kinds of climate-related inventions. According to the USPTO, The Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program is designed…
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