“Configured To” Can Configure You Right Out of a Patent
If you’re an inventor thinking about filing a patent, here’s a recent Federal Circuit decision you should care about—In re Blue Buffalo Enterprises (Fed. Cir. Jan. 14, 2026). Not because…
The Denials Will Continue Until Morale Improves
After the recently appointed USPTO Director John Squires took the helm, IPR denials have been the standard. This of course isn’t appealing to those that want to challenge patents, so…
How the USPTO Solved AI Inventorship by Looking the Other Way
For a while there, it looked like we had some rules.Back in 2022, the Federal Circuit decided Thaler v. Vidal and told us, pretty clearly, that inventors under U.S. patent…
Why IPR Decisions Don’t Preclude District Court Litigation
The kids are fighting over something and bring it to me to resolve. I don’t really want to get involved in whatever they’re arguing about, but instead of just telling…
Summary of Causam Enterprises, Inc. v. International Trade Commission (Fed. Cir. Oct. 15, 2025)
Wow, the Federal Circuit seriously narrowed the scope of some patent assignments.The Federal Circuit held that a 2007 patent assignment covering “divisions, reissues, continuations, and extensions” did not include continuation-in-part…
Discovery Gamesmanship Backfires: A Lesson in Playing Fast and Loose
Every so often, the Federal Circuit hands down a decision that’s less about patents and more about human nature. Magēmā (pronounced: Maggie-May) Technology v. Phillips 66 is one of those…
March-In Madness: Harvard, Bayh-Dole, and the Trump Administration
When politicians get involved in patent law, things usually get messy — and the latest spat between the Trump Administration and Harvard over the Bayh-Dole Act is no exception. A Little…
Secrets, Secrets Are No Longer Hard to Keep (in Court)
Previously, courts have required trade secret plaintiffs to identify their trade secrets with particularity before the defendants were required to respond to any discovery requests. In practice, no matter how…
Doctrine of Equivalents
The Doctrine of Equivalents is a legal principle in U.S. patent law that allows a court to find infringement even when the accused product or process does not literally fall within the…
From Brain Scans to Rain Scans: How Tumor-Detecting AI Is Predicting the Weather
In a twist that sounds like science fiction, researchers in Xi’an, China have taken artificial intelligence designed to find tumors in brain scans and taught it to forecast the weather—fast.…
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