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…
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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…
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…
The Fifth Circuit just weighed in on a copyright fight between retired wrestler Booker T. Huffman and video game giant Activision. Huffman claimed that Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops…
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…
Text and data mining (TDM) is basically grabbing lots of data from the internet. From that data, large language models and AI extract patterns and can generate text.Accessing large amounts…
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…
The PTO had suspended expedited examinations of design applications back on April 17, 2025, but has issued a final rule to eliminate them altogether, as part of effort “to combat…
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just rolled out a new “late-filing penalty” for continuation applications that come in six or nine years after the earliest priority date in…