“Configured To” Can Configure You Right Out of a Patent
Why Inventors Should Care About the Blue Buffalo Decision If you’re an inventor thinking about filing a patent, here’s a recent Federal Circuit decision you should care about—In re Blue…
The Denials Will Continue Until Morale Improves
IPR Denials Are Now Standard 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…
How the USPTO Solved AI Inventorship by Looking the Other Way
The Federal Circuit Clarifies: Only Humans Can Be Inventors For a while there, it looked like we had some rules.Back in 2022, the Federal Circuit decided Thaler v. Vidal and…
Why IPR Decisions Don’t Preclude District Court Litigation
An Illustration from Life of Issue Preclusion 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…
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. Continuation-in-Part Applications Not Covered in Assignments The Federal Circuit held that a 2007 patent assignment did not cover…
Discovery Gamesmanship Backfires: A Lesson in Playing Fast and Loose
The ol’ “Switcheroo”: One Argument in Discovery, the Opposite in Trial Every so often, the Federal Circuit hands down a decision that’s less about patents and more about human nature.…
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. What…
Secrets, Secrets Are No Longer Hard to Keep (in Court)
Previously, courts required trade secret plaintiffs to identify their trade secrets with particularity. That requirement applied before defendants had to respond to discovery. In practice, however, this rule created a…
Doctrine of Equivalents
What Is the Doctrine of Equivalents in U.S. Patent Law? The Doctrine of Equivalents is a legal principle in U.S. patent law that allows a court to find infringement even when…
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…
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