In accordance with the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) previously provided two extensions of time to file certain patent-related documents...more
Have you invented a product or process for preventing or treating the novel coronavirus commonly known as COVID-19? If you have, and you qualify as a small or micro entity, then you may be entitled to a “fast track”...more
The COVID-19 pandemic may have had an adverse impact on your brick-and-mortar retail sales, but hopefully has resulted in an uptick in your online retail sales. And when it comes to online retail sales, Amazon is the river,...more
Any person may challenge the validity of a U.S. patent on the basis that previously issued patents or publications render the patent’s claims invalid as being anticipated by the prior art or obvious in view of the prior art,...more
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As our Intellectual Property (IP) Group frequently says, if you are doing business in commerce, then you probably have valuable IP, whether you know it or not. And if you have valuable IP, you should be taking affirmative...more
With the emergence of the novel coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) has proposed the Facilitating Innovation to Fight Coronavirus Act in an effort to combat the continued spread of the highly-communicable...more
In accordance with the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has extended the time to file certain patent-related documents and pay certain fees...more
On April 29, 2014, the United States Supreme Court significantly lowered the standard for demonstrating entitlement to attorneys' fees in patent cases. In Octane Fitness, LLC v. Icon Health & Fitness, Inc., the high court...more
Since the United States Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Bilski v. Kappos, holding that a computer-assisted method of hedging risk in the field of commodities trading was unpatentable under §101 of the Patent Act, courts have...more