Patent activity provides an important signal that is helpful in identifying and forecasting industry trends including the development of new products and services. It can predict the future focus of individual competitors...more
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A concise set of statutes dictate the characteristics that a patent application must have to be allowed to grant as a patent. Patent examiners are tasked with reviewing individual applications to determine whether these...more
Frequently, the fate of a patent application lies with a single patent examiner. This power frustrates applicants when an impasse has been reached in terms of interpretation of the claims, cited art, or patent statutes....more
Nearly all eligibility rejections challenged in post-Alice appeals in computer related technologies are affirmed in whole by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Most of those appeals originate from business-method art...more
Kilpatrick Townsend attorneys Kate Gaudry, Ph. D. and Sameer Vadera recently presented to the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) Software Related Inventions Committee regarding “Ex Parte Appeals: A Multi-Year &...more