On April 20, 2020, in Thryv, Inc. v. Click-to-Call Techs., LP, 590 U.S. __ (2020), the Supreme Court extended its decision in Cuozzo Speed Techs., LLC v. Lee, 579 U.S. __ (2016) to prohibit appeals of decisions from the...more
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On Monday, March 16, 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) announced that it will consider the coronavirus pandemic to constitute an “extraordinary situation” within the meaning of the relevant patent...more
According to a recent decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the words of a U.S. design patent claim can limit the scope of the claimed design, and should not be ignored in the claim construction...more