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A recent Federal Circuit decision in the case of Qualcomm v. Apple provides guidance on the treatment of Applicant Admitted Prior Art (AAPA) under 35 U.S.C § 311(b) in Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings. Under 35 U.S.C § 311(b), A petitioner in… Read More

In our previous post, we covered a few companies that were highly ranked based on their innovation. The rankings were based on three main criteria: technological networking, digitization of products and processes, as well as technological dynamics. A… Read More

Today, the energy industry is responsible for nearly half of global greenhouse gas emissions. As such, various energy companies have been taking steps to create clean energy technologies, namely tidal, solar, and wind, to curb the effects of global w… Read More

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is proposing to implement the electronic issuance of patents. As the Federal Register explains, Currently, the USPTO issues “letters patent” (hereafter, patents) as paper patents under the sea… Read More

Here are some of the significant developments from 2021 relating to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). As the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) explains, The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is an adjudicative body within the U.S. Pat… Read More

In March of 2021, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) asked the interim director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to “initiate a pilot program directing examiners to apply a sequenced approach to patent examination,” ra… Read More

The Federal Circuit has reversed a decision by a federal court that a patent claim involving radio communications was abstract and thus not patent-eligible. Mentone Solutions LLC v. Digi International Inc. involved a patent that “relates to dynamic… Read More

The emergence of cryptocurrencies is disrupting almost every industry. Bitcoin started the crypto revolution in 2009 when an anonymous developer under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto first introduced the idea to the world. By the mid-2010s, Bitcoin st… Read More