Further to this morning’s announcement of a study of PTO procedures by The Naples Roundtable, two senior members of the profession have each responded, as below. Regards, Hal The ...
The email (below) was sent to a large group of persons in the IP field (names omitted, here), from "TC Williams". The person is someone I don't know and therefore someone ...
Gene Quinn, the popular “IP Watchdog”, has put out a report on the incumbent Director of the PTO indicating she wishes to stay at the PTO: He says that Ms. Lee ...
Reliable sources have indicated that the Federal Circuit Bar Association is now hoping to hold an early Fall 2017 conference in Tokyo where the court would bring five of its ...
Perhaps the single most unique idea for patent cooperation between Japan and the United States occurred in the 1980's in parallel with ill-fated patent harmonization treaty discussions in Geneva under ...
Congratulations to Neel Sukhatme who has recently joined the full time faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center with a focus on patent law. Prof. Sukhatme has degrees in Computer ...
Congratulations to Marylee Jenkins, announced yesterday as Chair of PPAC, the Patent Public Advisory Committee. This is the start of her second term on the PPAC. Ms. Jenkins has held ...
Today in Phigenix, Inc. v. Immunogen, Inc., __ F.3d __(Fed. Cir. 2017)(Wallach, J.), in a case where Phigenix had unsuccessfully challenged a validity holding in a PTO Inter Partes Review, ...
Further to the note earlier today concerning speculation as to the successor to Michelle K. Lee as Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce in charge of the Patent Office, a highly ...
President Trump has already named Wilbur Ross as Secretary of Commerce-designate and on November 30, 2016, named Todd Rickets as his Deputy Secretary of Commerce-designate. Going down to the next ...