Patent practitioners have seen a shifting landscape for patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 since the Supreme Court’s 2012 and 2014 seminal decisions in Mayo and Alice. Now, the United States Patent and Trademark Office...more
12/4/2025
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On March 26, 2025, the acting USPTO director, Coke Morgan Stewart, published a Memorandum addressed to all judges for the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB), in which Acting Director Stewart detailed an interim bifurcated...more
On Friday, March 14, 2025, Delaware's own Judge Andrews provided important guidance on key patent issues, relevant to pharmaceutical and technology companies alike: (1) the decisive impact of local patent rules on summary...more
3/25/2025
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A recent en banc Federal Circuit decision overruled the unique test for obviousness of design patents and advised that the same analysis should apply to both utility patents and design patents. LKQ Corporation v. GM Global...more