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The Rapid Rise of AI, in Five Charts

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With remarkable speed, AI has evolved from an intriguing concept into a practical business tool that is drawing large investments and more regulatory oversight. The launch of generative AI (GenAI) tools in late 2022 helped...more

Kilpatrick

Sidebars Podcast | Amanda Brouillette: Taking Charge

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In this episode, we interview patent litigator Amanda Brouillette, a Senior Associate in the Atlanta office of Kilpatrick Townsend. Amanda has defended a wide range of clients accused of patent infringement through all stages...more

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

PTAB Strategies and Insights - September 2021: Observations from the September 17, 2021, LEAP Arguments and Bench Discussion

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and AIPLA’s PTAB Trial Subcommittee continue to strengthen the Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP), in which the PTAB incentivizes parties to allow junior practitioners...more

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

PTAB Strategies and Insights - September 2021

The PTAB Strategies and Insights newsletter provides timely updates and insights into how best to handle proceedings at the USPTO. It is designed to increase return on investment for all stakeholders looking at the entire...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

UPSTO Revises Patent Bar Qualifications

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The USPTO has announced changes to the “technical and scientific qualifications that may typically make applicants eligible” to take the patent bar exam. The changes are being implemented after consideration of public...more

Kilpatrick

Sidebars Podcast | Danielle Abramson: Driven by Passion

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Danielle Abramson is currently SVP, Global Head of IP at RedHill Biopharma. She is a registered patent agent with an almost 20-year career in the legal field, which includes stints at several law firms where she created her...more

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PTAB Holds Mock Oral Arguments for LEAP Attorneys

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Holding its first mock oral arguments, the PTAB provided LEAP eligible participants with a unique opportunity to argue in front of PTAB judges. On August 7, 2020, mock oral PTAB hearings were held virtually with 40 LEAP...more

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LEAP: Additional PTAB Argument Time Offered For Junior Attorneys

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Less experienced patent practitioners may be granted additional oral argument time in front of the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) with the Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP). LEAP helps foster development...more

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Junior Lawyers Can Receive Additional Argument Time

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As fewer cases go to trial nowadays, judges have long been mindful of providing young lawyers with “stand-up” opportunities. For example, Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California, in his Standing Order,...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Patent System Stakeholders Underutilizing Open Data Resources at the USPTO

Fostering and supporting innovation is, quite literally, the mission of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). To advance this mission, the USPTO hosts a suite of web portals that empowers patent applicants,...more

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How To Deliver A Stellar Opening Statement In A Patent Trial

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Opening statements are arguably the most important part of a patent trial. But attorneys who tell an interesting story, stay out of the weeds and make a connection with jurors are setting themselves up for success. ...more

Jones Day

When Innovation Invents: Artificial Intelligence Issues at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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The Situation: Artificial intelligence ("AI") is growing more powerful and gaining application in many areas. AI can now create new innovation on its own, without a human inventor—a capability that will only expand as...more

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Determining the Patent Eligibility of Inventions Under the New USPTO Guidelines

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Under the U.S. Patent Act, one can patent “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.” Common exceptions to what can be patented include laws of...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Double Check Your Filings, A Cautionary Tale at the PTAB

Recently in Nuna Baby Essentials, Inc. v. Britax Child Safety, Inc., IPR2018-01683, Paper No. 11 (PTAB Dec. 18, 2018), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) denied Petitioner’s motion to excuse the late filing of...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

How to Draft Patent Claims for Machine Learning Inventions

It seems like everyone is talking about artificial intelligence, especially the subset thereof referred to as machine learning. While some of the discussion is cast in terms of politically-stirred angst about human jobs...more

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Pleading Patent Infringement in the United States: Evolving Standards

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The Situation: Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 84, which permitted U.S. patent-infringement lawsuits to proceed on very general allegations, was withdrawn three years ago. Subsequent court decisions have considered how much...more

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Practical Tips from the Judges’ Panel at the PTAB Judicial Conference

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On July 26, 2018, the Silicon Valley Regional Office of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) hosted a Judicial Conference by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”). During the conference, a panel of...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

4 Things You Must Know about AIA Trial Depositions

After the America Invents Act (AIA) passed with a vote of 304-177 in June 2011, inventors seeking patents had to be the first to file to lay claim to their innovations. As the first major shift in patent law since 1952,...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Lessons And Challenges Arising Out Of The Federal Circuit’s New Focus On Factual Issues In “Patent Eligibility” Disputes

With its Alice and Mayo opinions, the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically changed how patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 is defined. ...more

Proskauer - New England IP Blog

USPTO Updates Patent Eligibility Guidance in View of Federal Circuit Berkheimer Opinion

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued a memorandum to its patent examining corps that changes the way examiners should evaluate the question of whether a claim element is “well-understood, routine,...more

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Strategies to Argue Patentable Subject Matter per USPTO Eligibility Memo

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It is time to take a deeper look and derive or strengthen some strategies to argue for patentable subject matter eligibility during patent prosecution, now that the first round articles on the USPTO Memorandum April 19, 2018,...more

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ITC Updates Its Rules of Practice and Procedure

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Late last week, the International Trade Commission (“ITC”) finalized changes to its rules, which changes were first proposed in late 2015. The new rules are expected to be published in the Federal Register in early May 2018...more

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How To Protect Your Clients’ IP

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A business’s intellectual property may be its most valuable asset. Whether it is biotechnology, trade names, business methods, or computer software, intellectual property should be protected to the greatest extent possible...more

Ladas & Parry LLP

It’s 2018: The Impact Of IP Decisions From 2017

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2017 saw a bumper crop of Supreme Court decisions on intellectual property matters around the world including eight by the United States Supreme Court, two by the Canadian Supreme Court, and two by the United Kingdom Supreme...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

2017 In Review – Trademarks, Copyrights and Patents

Trademark Law - Let Them Register Offensive Trademarks! - In June of 2017, in Matal v. Tam, the Supreme Court held that the disparagement clause of the federal Lanham Act violates the Free Speech Clause of the First...more

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