From March to June of 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) responded to the COVID-19 outbreak by offering various forms of relief to stakeholders. The widest ranging of these relief efforts was...more
From March to May of 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) responded to the COVID-19 outbreak by offering various forms of relief to stakeholders. The widest ranging of these relief efforts was issued...more
The United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") recently held that machines may not be named as inventors on a U.S. patent application, and affirmed that patent application inventorship is limited to only natural...more
Throughout March and April 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") responded to the COVID-19 outbreak by offering relief to stakeholders. The widest ranging of these relief efforts was issued under the...more
In a highly-anticipated case that had the potential to drastically change the patent landscape surrounding computer-implemented inventions, in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l the Supreme Court took a measured approach to the...more