When an invention is developed in China, Chinese Patent Law requires an applicant to obtain a foreign filing license before filing a patent application outside of the country. Even where…

We've put together a fun video about St. Patrick's Day. It explains who St. Patrick was, how his birthday came to be a celebration of Irish culture, and some related…

On February 24th, 2022, the Supreme Court has published a decision, Unicolors v H&M, that will make challenging the validity of a copyright registration much harder. Under the US Copyright…

The USPTO is implementing a pilot program called the Deferred Subject Matter Eligibility response.The point of the program is to defer the whole question of subject matter eligibility until a…

We posted an update on this back in November 2021, but all 13 countries have now ratified the Protocol on Provisional Application of the Unified Patent Court Agreement. The European…

We've put together a little video about Valentine's Day. First, we give the historical background about who Saint Valentine was, and how he came to be celebrated. Then the transformation from…

Alice v CLS (2014) was a landmark case for patent eligibility. The decision held that Alice’s patents were invalid because the claims were drawn to an abstract idea and implementing…

DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) An AI machine program called DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) was created as a series of neural…

Over the last 5 years (FY 2017-2021) about 61 percent of the cases at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) concern patents. There are three sources for…

There is a Latin maxim: de minimis non curat lex: The law does not care about the smallest thing. De minimis, in legal terms, means the thing is too trivial or…