The United States Patent and Trademark Office launched the Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program last year to incentivize the filing of patent applications that cover technologies directed to climate change mitigation. With...more
The PTAB Digest 2021/2022 provides an overview of PTAB statistics, trends, and updates that impact strategies and business decisions for patent owners and petitioners alike.
Significant developments included the...more
The Court recently heard arguments in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC on whether inter partes review—an adversarial process used by the US Patent and Trademark Office to determine the...more
Court lowers the threshold for “exceptional” cases.
On April 29, in Octane Fitness, LLC v. Icon Health & Fitness, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s existing...more
In an opinion that was poised to set a single standard governing the patent eligibility of computer-implemented inventions, no majority is reached....more