The judicial system appears gridlocked and unable to deviate from the patent-eligibility patent law based upon modern case law: This is keyed to a widespread belief following the Bilski case ...
In anticipation of her likely leaving her government position in January, PTO Under Secretary Michelle Lee gave what appears to be her final speech to a plenary session of the ...
This issue has recently generated comments. The answer is “no”. As explained by the Supreme Court in Diamond Rubber: “A patentee may be baldly empirical, seeing nothing beyond his experiments ...
According to a reliable source, Ms. Pallante, the Register of Copyright, has been transferred to a new position within the Library of Congress where she will hold the title Senior ...
Greg Roggin had a particular interest in Japan; he earned a B.A. in History, Japanese and Political Science from the University of Michigan following an earlier degree relating to Japanese studies ...
Today in In re Efthymiopoulos, __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Prost, C.J.), in an otherwise legally unimportant case, the panel affirmed an obviousness rejection of claims to a method of ...
Today in Apple, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir 2016)(en banc)(Moore, J.), amidst 107 pages of slip opinions with separate dissenting opinions from each of ...
Ken Tremain was one of the many distinguished twentieth century patent attorneys who gained an undergraduate engineering education from Purdue University and a legal education from the George Washington University ...
Today the Court DENIED certiorari in the Amphastar case, which is concerned with the § 271(e)(2) “safe harbor” for drug testing. Details are found in Top Patent Cases of September ...
More blowback has been received concerning the writer’s position in an earlier paper that the “state of the art” as of the filing date minimizes the value of the grace ...