Patents, Intellectual Property Protection, Rule 36

Patent Eligibility: The Call for Supreme Court Clarity and for an End to Summary Affirmances

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/6/2025

The U.S. Supreme Court has once again been urged to revisit 35 U.S.C. § 101, the statute governing patent eligibility. Audio Evolution Diagnostics, Inc. (AED) filed a petition for writ of certiorari, challenging the Federal...more

Is It Ever Too Late To Be Rule 36’d?

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Federal Circuitry on 9/6/2022

Those that regularly practice before the Court know about Rule 36s. We’ve written about them before. It’s a one-line per curiam decision that generally comes a few days after oral argument...more

Who Wins, Who Loses – Still Worse To Be The Patent Owner On Appeal

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Federal Circuitry on 6/22/2022

We’ve been updating our stats pretty frequently but haven’t had a recent post about what—if anything—has changed in affirmance rates as more data has been compiled. So with basically 2½ years of data, I thought we could look...more

Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2021 Decisions: Introduction

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 2/10/2022

Last year, the continued global COVID-19 pandemic forced American courts to largely continue the procedures set in place in 2020. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was no exception. It briefly returned to live...more

Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2021 Decisions

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 2/9/2022

[co-author: Jamie Dohopolski] Last year, the continued global COVID-19 pandemic forced American courts to largely continue the procedures set in place in 2020. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was no...more

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Patent Eligibility: The Call for Supreme Court Clarity and for an End to Summary Affirmances

Is It Ever Too Late To Be Rule 36’d?

Who Wins, Who Loses – Still Worse To Be The Patent Owner On Appeal

Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2021 Decisions: Introduction

Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2021 Decisions

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