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Federal Circuit: Private Sale by Inventor Does Not Trigger Prior Art Exception Under the AIA

The Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) final written decision holding that the prior art exception of AIA Section 102(b)(2)(B) does not apply to a prior sale by an inventor when the sale is...more

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USPTO Issues Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in intellectual property is as big – and as fast-changing – a topic as ever. On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published an Artificial Intelligence Strategy...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - January 2025 #3

Bearbox LLC v. Lancium LLC, Appeal No. 2023-1922 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 13, 2025) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s determination that appellants Bearbox and Austin Storms—Bearbox’s...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

AI IP Year in Review - AI Developments at the USPTO

Navigating Inventorship of AI-Assisted Inventions: USPTO’s Guidance and Implications - The USPTO issued guidance on AI-assisted inventions on February 13, 2024. This guidance is part of the USPTO’s ongoing efforts to address...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

AI IP Year in Review - Patent Law and Generative AI 101

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, such as predictive AI, have been around for decades, generative AI systems are recent innovations with far reaching implications for patent law. Generative AI, such as ChatGPT,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Bit Swap: Motivation to Modify Prior Art Needn’t Be Inventor’s Motivation

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Addressing the issue of obviousness, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a Patent Trial & Appeal Board decision, finding that the challenged patent claims were obvious because a person of ordinary skill...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

A POSA’s Motivation Is Not Required To Be the Same as the Inventor’s in Evaluating Obviousness

In its first precedential opinion of 2025, Honeywell v. 3G Licensing, No. 2023-1354, the Federal Circuit held that a person of ordinary skill in the art (POSA) needs not to have the same motivation as the inventor in an...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Reviewing 2024's Crucial Patent Law Developments

As 2024 draws to a close, several crucial developments — some aimed at modernizing long-standing legal practices, others addressing emerging challenges — have reached patent law. Originally published in Law360 - December...more

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PREVAIL Act Passes Committee

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The Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership (“PREVAIL”) Act has moved to the Senate for a full vote after passing the Senate Judiciary Committee vote 11-10 on November 21, 2024. In...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

PTAB Refuses to Ignore Reference Where Patent Owner Fails to Overcome Prima Facie Evidence of ‘Different Inventive Entity’

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board determined that a reference could be used as prior art because patent owner failed to provide sufficient evidence that the prior art’s disclosure was invented by all four named inventors, and...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - August 2024 #3

Allergan USA, Inc. v. MSN Laboratories Private Ltd., Appeal No. 2024-1061 (Fed. Cir. August 13, 2024) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit clarifies rules relating to when an applicant’s patent can be...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Federal Circuit Clarifies the Meaning of “Publicly Disclosed”

This decision emphasizes the significance of broader public dissemination to meet the statutory requirement of “publicly disclosed” for purposes of exceptions to prior art under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)(2)(B)....more

Alston & Bird

Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending August 2, 2024

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Voice Tech Corp. v. Unified Patents, LLC, No. 2022-2163 (Fed. Cir. (PTAB) Aug. 1, 2024). Opinion by Chen, joined by Lourie and Cunningham. Unified filed an IPR petition challenging a Voice Tech patent directed to using voice...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Private Sale Means Public Fail

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial & Appeal Board decision that a private sale of a product embodying the claimed invention did not qualify as a “public disclosure” under 35 U.S.C. §...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - August 2024

Sanho Corp. v. Kaijet Technology International Limited Inc., Appeal No. 2023-1336 (Fed. Cir. July 31, 2024) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit held that the private but non-confidential sale of thousands of...more

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Shifting Burden Dooms Patent Owner

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In a Final Written Decision, the PTAB declared claims of a patent unpatentable after finding the patent was not entitled to the earlier priority date of the anticipatory reference in Platinum Optics Technology, Inc. v. Viavi...more

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Federal Circuit Overrules Rosen-Durling Test for Design Patent Obviousness as “Improperly Rigid”

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - LKQ CORPORATION v. GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC [OPINION] (2021-2348, 5/21/24) Moore, Lourie, Dyk, Prost, Reyna, Taranto, Chen, Hughes, Stoll, and Stark - Stoll,...more

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Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending May 24, 2024

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LKQ Corp., et al. v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC, No. 2021-2348 (Fed. Cir. (PTAB) May 21, 2024). En banc opinion by Stoll, joined by Moore, Dyk, Prost, Reyna, Taranto, Chen, Hughes, and Stark. Concurring opinion by...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Reintroduction of the Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act

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On April 26, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives reintroduced the Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act (the “Act”), which was previously introduced in November of 2021. The Act seeks to uphold the goals of the...more

Erise IP

Eye on IPRs, April 2024: PTAB’s Analogous Art Finding Upheld by Federal Circuit, Blockchain Gemstone Identifying Process Patent...

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Every month, Erise’s patent attorneys review the latest inter partes review cases and news to bring you the stories that you should know about: Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB’s Analogous Art Finding - As IP Watchdog...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

USPTO Guidance on Use of AI-Based Tools

The USPTO has issued several recent Federal Register Notices this calendar year. The latest, entitled Guidance on Use of Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools in Practice Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 89...more

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PTAB/USPTO Update - March 2024

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On February 13, the USPTO issued inventorship guidance for AI-assisted innovations. The guidance, effective as of February 13, 2024, emphasizes that AI-assisted inventions are not categorically unpatentable and the...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

An Update on AI and Patent Practice at the USPTO and Abroad

Over the last several months, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) publicized its attention to the impact of artificial intelligence on U.S. patent practice. On February 6, 2024, the USPTO issued its...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Old Tricks/Bad Habits at the Federal Circuit

The Federal Circuit used to get a lot of flak for failing to defer to factual findings of the tribunal it was reviewing. My (highly unscientific) sense is that such criticism has eased somewhat, but I was reminded of it when...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Memo for Use of AI During Practice Issued by USPTO

After several high-profile instances of artificial intelligence (AI) hallucination and Chief Justice John Roberts’s year-end report acknowledging the shortcomings of blindly relying on AI in legal writing, Kathi Vidal, the...more

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