The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced on Oct. 4, 2022, that it is extending the Motion to Amend (MTA) Pilot Program through September 16, 2024. The MTA Pilot Program was initiated on March 15, 2019....more
Consistent with Director Iancu’s goal of providing greater predictability and certainty in the US patent system, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Tuesday proposed a new rule to change the standard for claim...more
Kilpatrick Townsend Partners Eugenia Garrett-Wackowski, Paul Haughey, Babak Kusha, and Karam Saab recently presented on issues and strategies to consider when writing and prosecuting patent applications to withstand Alice...more
Whether a patent qualifies for a CBM review has been a moving target. Early decisions held that the claims do not need to be directed to a “financial product or service,” since a reference in the specification to a financial...more