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The recent Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision Ex Parte Baurin reversed an Examiner rejection for obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) in U.S. Application No. 17/135,529 over the later-filed, later-expiring...more
On September 22, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) directed patent practitioners to current case law and sections of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) as reminders as the patent practitioners...more
As much of the United States is taking steps towards “getting back to normal,” the USPTO continues to implement programs to encourage investment and innovation in technologies addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, the...more
On April 15, 2021, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) implemented the COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Pilot Program (“Pilot Program”) to fast-track ex parte appeals of products or processes subject to an...more
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently released statistics about its Fast-Track Appeals Pilot Program. The program went into effect on July 2, 2020 and is currently slated to run until the earlier of July 2,...more
Unconstitutionally Appointed Judges Cannot Decide Ex Parte Appeals - In In Re Boloro Global Limited, Appeal No. 19-2349, When administrative patent judges are unconstitutionally appointed, their decisions in ex...more
In a notice published in the Federal Register last month (85 Fed. Reg. 39888), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was initiating a Fast-Track Appeals Pilot Program, to provide for the advancement of...more
Recognizing that patent appellants sometimes need a quick ruling in ex parte cases, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is now expediting up to 500 appeals per year in its newly created Fast-Track Appeals Pilot Program. ...more
In re Boloro Global Ltd., Appeal Nos. 2019-2349, -2351 and -2353 (Fed. Cir., July 7, 2020). Boloro appealed to the PTAB final rejections in three patent applications, which the PTAB ultimately affirmed. On appeal of the...more
Starting July 2, 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office is offering a Fast-Track Appeals Pilot Program that appears to be a very cost effective way to expedite an appeal of a final rejection of a US patent...more
On July 1, 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced a new program to expedite ex parte appeals before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Under the “Fast-Track Appeals Pilot Program,”...more
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is now accepting petitions for expedited resolution of ex parte appeals. Launched last week, the “Fast-Track Appeals Pilot Program” aims to decide the average patent appeal within six...more
Ever since the Supreme Court's decision in Dickerson v. Zurko, decisions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (whether in ex parte examination or any of the many varieties of actions before the Patent Trial and Appeal...more
Software Claims Survive Section 101 Challenge and Are Found to Be Directed to Patent-Eligible Subject Matter - In the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently designated its...more
Last week, in In re Ikeda Food Research Co., the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirming the Examiner's rejection in an ex parte reexamination of...more
In a decision issued last month, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reversed the final rejection of all pending claims in U.S. Application No. 14/207,507. Claims 2-7 were rejected under...more
PTAB Affirms Patent Eligibility of Claims for Using Dwell Time to Rank Search Results - In a decision issued last month, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reversed the final...more
The phrase “at least one of” is used in claims to indicate selection from a group of elements that follows the phrase. When used, practitioners may grapple with whether “at least one of A and B” or “at least one of A or B” is...more
In a decision issued in May, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reversed the final rejection of claims 35-48 in U.S. Application No. 13/512,585. The claims at issue had been rejected by...more
PTAB Affirms Patent Eligibility of Claims for Training a Spoken Language Understanding Classifier - In a decision issued earlier this month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board reversed the...more
The Patent Trial and Appeal Broad (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has often been criticized for being particularly harsh when reviewing appeals of claims rejected by an examiner of grounds of patent-ineligibly...more
PTAB Affirms Patent Eligibility of Virtual Reality Advertising Claims - In a decision issued last month, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board reversed the final rejection of all the pending claims in U.S. Application No....more
In an interesting decision issued last year, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board reversed the final rejection of claims 1-5 and 9 in U.S. Application No. 12/959,017. The claims at issue had been rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101...more