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
/ Alice/Mayo ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Machine Learning ,
New Guidance ,
Patent Applications ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Prosecution ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Rescission ,
Section 101 ,
Software Patents ,
USPTO
The numbers of online fakes have exploded in recent years, creating increasing issues for a broad array of consumer goods manufacturers and retailers, from luxury clothing and leather goods to car parts or smoking...more
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
Venable has offered general thoughts on the potential fallout from the Supreme Court's reversal of the long-standing Chevron deference, as well as practice area-specific analysis. Here, the Intellectual Property Litigation...more
7/11/2024
/ America Invents Act ,
Chevron Deference ,
Government Agencies ,
Imports ,
International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Regulatory Authority ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
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