Last week in Miller v. Department of Justice, __ F.3d __, 2016 WL 7030359 (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Stoll, J.),a thorough exposition was made of an MSPB legal issue in the principal ...
International patent exhaustion is on the Supreme Court docket for the current Term! Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari to review both “Questions Presented” by the Petitioner in Impression Products, ...
Congratulations to Mr. Uemura upon his recognition at the November 9th Decoration Ceremony where he was awarded the historic “Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon". This high ...
We are reaching capacity and expect to close registrations shortly, and in any event not later thanDecember 15th. For details of the conference, see www.TheNaplesRoundtable.org. Hal
An informed source has indicated that the incumbent head of the Patent Office would like to stay in her position in the new Administration. According to a report in Politico ...
Lame Duck PTO Director Michelle K. Lee’s issuance of a Federal Register notice proposing a $ 710 million dollar PTO fee increase runs squarely, head on, into the position taken ...
Further to the recent note on the Global Dossier Initiative and the possibility to amend Rule 56(a), one seeming drawback had been that it is difficult for an American Examiner ...
Today in Merck Sharp and Dohme Ltd. v. Shionogi & Co Ltd., [2016] EWHC 2989 (Pat)(High Court 2016)(Arnold, J.), the High Court invalidated Shionogi’s European Patent (UK) No. 1 422 218. This patent ...
In an email responsive to the Nov. 23rd post (attached below), PTO official Patrick Ross has correctly noted that “Roundtable 2 [is] being held December 5, 2016, *** [in] Stanford, ...
According to the New York Times (quoted below) President-Elect Trump is expected to nominate a new Commerce Secretary and Deputy Commerce Secretary. This will then open the door to the ...