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USPTO Leadership On November 12, USPTO Director Kathi Vidal announced in a post on LinkedIn and a letter to friends and colleagues that she would be stepping down the second [...]

USPTO News On July 7, the Senate passed a resolution “[r]ecognizing the importance of trademarks in the economy and the role of trademarks in protecting consumer safety, by designating the [...]

On June 7, 2024, the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance et al. v. Library of Congress et al., No. 23-5067 (D.C. Cir.), [...]

USPTO Request for Comments On April 30, the USPTO announced a Request for Comments (RFC) seeking public feedback on how AI could affect USPTO evaluations on patentability, including what qualifies [...]

On March 25, 2024, the Federal Circuit issued an opinion in Edwards Lifesciences Corp. v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd.,1 addressing whether the act of importing two heart valve systems [...]

USPTO News A recent article, 'Discovering Value: Women's Participation in University and Commercial Artificial Intelligence (AI) Invention,' reports on a new study finding that women's participation in patenting results in [...]

USPTO News On June 7, the USPTO released its 2022-2026 Strategic Plan. According to the USPTO, the new plan outlines the USPTO's mission-focused strategic goals, which are: (1) driving inclusive [...]

USPTO News On April 20, the USPTO announced an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) seeking public input regarding potential PTAB reforms, including proposed changes to discretionary institution practices, petition [...]

USPTO News On March 6, the USPTO announced a new Green Energy Category of its Patents for Humanity Program. Patents for Humanity is an awards competition that recognizes innovators who [...]

USPTO News On January 18, the USPTO announced the launch of the IP Identifier tool, which is designed to enable users who are less familiar with intellectual property to identify [...]

USPTO Leadership This month, Director Kathi Vidal delivered official remarks at the Women's Entrepreneurship Symposium. USPTO News On November 16, the USPTO and the Department of Commerce launched the Women's [...]

USPTO News OnOctober 19, 2022the USPTO issued areporttitled 'Where are U.S. women patentees? Assessing three decades of growth' examining trends in women's patenting in the U.S. from 1990-2019. Director Kathi [...]

USPTO Leadership This month, Director Kathi Vidal delivered official remarks at the International Copyright Institute and at the Global Forum on Intellectual Property. Director Vidal was appointed as a Federal [...]

USPTO Leadership The USPTO announced new staff additions and promotions to its leadership team. Shirin Bidel-Niyat was elevated to Chief of Staff, having served previously as a senior advisor to [...]

USPTO Leadership The USPTO announced Derrick Brent as the new Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO ('Deputy Director'), effective August 1. His [...]

USPTO Leadership On April 13, Kathi Vidal was sworn in as the new Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office [...]

USPTO Leadership Drew Hirshfeld is still performing the functions and duties of Director. President Biden nominated Kathi Vidal to be the next Director. On Jan. 13, the Senate Judiciary Committee [...]

USPTO Leadership Drew Hirshfeld is still performing the functions and duties of Director. Kathi Vidal, the Biden Administration's nominee to be the next Director, testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee's [...]

USPTO News On October 26, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Kathi Vidal, the managing partner of Winston and Strawn's Silicon Valley office, as the next Under Secretary for Intellectual Property [...]

USPTO News On September 9, 2021, Senators Patrick Leahy and Thom Tillis wrote a letter to Acting Director Andrew Hirshfeld requesting that the USPTO 'take steps to reduce patent applicants' [...]

USPTO Leadership Drew Hirshfeld is still performing the functions and duties of Director. The Biden Administration has not made an announcement as to who will be nominated to become the [...]

USPTO Leadership Drew Hirshfeld is still performing the functions and duties of Director. The Biden Administration has not made an announcement as to who will be nominated to become the [...]

USPTO Leadership Drew Hirshfeld is still performing the functions and duties of Director. The Biden Administration has not made an announcement as to who will be nominated to become the [...]

USPTO News USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Deputy Director Laura Peter resigned from their respective posts prior to inauguration day. Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirschfeld and Senior Counsel Coke Morgan [...]

USPTO News David Berdan has been appointed USPTO's General Counsel. As General Counsel, Mr. Berdan will serve as the principal legal advisor to the Director. He will also supervise the [...]

On February 7, 2019, in Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal brought by a petitioner in an inter partes review (IPR) for lack [...]

In this article published by Law360, David Cavanaugh, Omar Khan and Jeffrey Dennhardt focus on recent case law addressing whether and to what extent IPR institution decisions and final written [...]

This has been a year in which automotive technology and the legal issues surrounding it have come increasingly to the forefront, both in legal circles and public perception. Given the [...]

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit), the reviewing court for the decisions issued by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board), has handled over 1,000 appeals [...]

In inter partes review proceedings, the Preliminary Response allows a patent owner to argue that an IPR proceeding should not be instituted. One way a patent owner may oppose institution [...]

When a patent is challenged in an inter partes review and a final written decision has been issued, a statutory estoppel will prevent certain subsequent proceedings. The scope of the [...]

Co-authored by Jonathan R. Stroud* In the first three years since the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) established post-grant proceedings, parties have filed thousands of covered business method reviews (CBMs) [...]

Since the Inter Partes Review ('IPR') procedure under the America Invents Act ('AIA') became available in September 2012, the PTO has provided a new procedure to adjudicate the validity of [...]

Inter partes review proceedings have become a popular mechanism for defendants to challenge the validity of a patent that is asserted in a district court litigation. Because IPRs typically move [...]

The author discusses PTAB rulings on privity and real party-in-interest with advice for both petitioners and patent owners. Privity and real party-in-interest (RPI) issues have become important, sometimes case determinative, [...]

The America Invents Act (AIA) was enacted into law on Sept. 16, 2011, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office implemented rules for governing the inter partes review, post-grant review, [...]

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board ('PTAB' or 'Board') often denies some proposed grounds of invalidity as redundant to others when deciding whether to institute inter partes review (IPR) and [...]

Section 18(b)(1) of the America Invents Act requires district courts to apply four factors when deciding motions to stay litigation pending covered business method review.[1] Litigants unhappy with a district [...]

It is almost three years since president Obama signed the patent reform legislation, the A merica Invents A ct ('AIA'). Hailed as a rare piece of consensus legislation out of [...]