The Federal Circuit has affirmed the PTAB’s cancellation of all six claims of Zentian’s speech-recognition patent in a short ...

Best Practices: With the compressed issuance timeline, a growing number of patent practitioners are moving to a standard ...

USPTO and IU Maurer announce a Spring 2027 PTAB Law School Moot Court Competition: one brief, APJ panels, and an in-person final in Alexandria.

AIA has overstepped its boundaries on constitutional grounds as patents are private rights. All patent owners are entitled to ...

VirtaMove, Corp., No. 25-1230, the lead case among five petitions testing 35 U.S.C. § 314 (d), which makes the Director's institution decision "final and nonappealable." The government originally ...

Crocs asks the Supreme Court whether one ITC determination can start two appeal clocks after the Federal Circuit dismissed ...

Final FY2026 numbers: 315,825 utility grants, continuing applications at 26% of grants, US-origin share at 39%, published applications down 6%, and cross-border inventor teams on a record 10.7% of ...

Back in May 2023 I wrote a short post about the University of Texas study that used a GPT-style language model to reconstruct the gist of stories from fMRI scans (An API for the Human Mind, May 6, ...

Since Congress created the Federal Circuit in 1982, the court has repeatedly expanded the class of cases that, in its view, “arise under” patent law and so fall within its exclusive jurisdiction. The ...

On September 10, the Federal Circuit heard argument in ABC IP, LLC v. Peak Tactical, LLC, No. 26-1527, Rare Breed Triggers' appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction against the "Disruptor," ...

The Justices return for their long conference on Monday, September 28, and the patent side of the docket is as full as it has been in some time. By my count, thirteen docketed cert petitions arise ...