The U.S. became a member of the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement in May 2015. U.S. applicants can now take advantage of a centralized procedure for global examination of design applications.
There are numerous advantages to using new post-grant proceedings for patent trials.
The US Court of Appeals has issued a precedential decision, extending the ‘something more’ standard.
The USPTO recently released its 2014 Interim Guidance on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility.
The Supreme Court issued decisions in five important patent cases in 2014, repeatedly speaking from a unanimous opinion and overturning the Federal Circuit.
The Supreme Court today issued opinions in Octane Fitness v. Icon Health and Highmark v. AllCare. Together, these two decisions provide sweeping reform to the award of attorney’s fees in patent cases.
The decision was handed down by the Supreme Court after a long wait on June 28, 2010. The Court upheld the Federal Circuit’s ruling that the claims at issue were not patentable subject matter. For proponents of reduced patent coverage for business method claims it was a Pyrrhic victory.