This is an update to my September post on the Supreme Court's patent docket. The big news is the denial of certiorari in the IPR discretionary denial case of Google LLC v. VirtaMove, Corp., No.

I have been parsing ex parte PTAB decisions - about 130 k for this post running from 2009 through September 2026 - looking particularly at the eligibility cases. The short version: eligibility is ...

Blind AI readers forecast four pending Federal Circuit appeals, including Samsung v. ITC and Taylor Made v. Costco, after a ...

My October 18 post looked at Section 101 in PTAB ex parte appeals. This one looks at the other rejection types, using the same parsed decisions plus a rejection-by-rejection reading of the 35 thousand ...

Treating strength as factual sends it to the jury for trial, makes summary judgment harder to win, and secures deferential ...

The agency spent years working down the backlog and has now given back nearly all of that progress. Over the past several ...

The "optimization" claims of US8842761 and US10693700 are ineligible under § 101; The "constellation" claims of US11019509 and US11018922 are eligible; The infringement verdict stands (denial of JMOL ...

New data from the USPTO shows that the amazing transformation in patent inventorship continues: the average number of inventors per utility patent has reached 3.2 in 2024, nearly double the 1.7 ...

Earlier this week, the USPTO published updated examination guidelines regarding obviousness determinations under 35 U.S.C. §103. While these new guidelines are not legally binding, they offer ...

Charles H. Duell was the Commissioner of US patent office in 1899. Mr. Deull's most famous attributed utterance is that "everything that can be invented has been invented." Most patent attorneys have ...

Our guest author today is a very bright high school student, Kavya Gundlapalli, who is considering a career in law. – DC Guest Post by Kavya Gundlapalli* As America heads toward the 2024 presidential ...