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Honk if you love 35 U.S.C. § 101.[1] We last discussed subject matter eligibility on our blog with respect to the January 2019 guidance from the USPTO for computer-implemented inventions.[2]…

Last month (June, 24, 2019), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Iancu v. Brunetti that the federal ban on the registration of "immoral or scandalous" trademarks violated the First Amendment. …

According to the report the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released January 2019, 3.17 million patent applications were filed worldwide in 2017, and 43.6% (1.38 million) of these patent applications…

The Supreme Court and Federal Circuit continue to be active in the early stages of 2019 with respect to patents. This post takes a brief look at two recently decided…

As we discussed last time, subject matter eligibility was not the only patentability requirement for which the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued new guidance on January 7,…

If the USPTO makes New Year’s resolutions, "release new guidance documents" must have been at the top of its list for 2019. Patent practitioners were treated to not one, but…

In recent years, software-centric patents have been increasingly at risk for receiving rejections from the US Patent Office under 35 U.S.C. § 101.  These rejections, based primarily on the Supreme…

On June 19, 2018 the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued U.S. Patent No. 10,000,000 symbolizing the breath and strength of American invention and showing that patents are still…