Current U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Chief Administrative Officer Anne Mendez has reportedly been appointed Acting Deputy Director of the USPTO, following Coke Morgan Stewart’s ...

“The AIA does not authorize the PTO to impose an age-based limit as a condition of inter partes review eligibility.” – Kahoot! petition for certiorari Kahoot AS! filed a petition for writ of ...

“[T]he Court ruled that Avanci is the essential party for determining FRAND obligations as it set the applicable fee itself independently from SEP owners.” Yesterday, the UK Supreme Court issued a ...

Comet Technologies v. XP Power is notable in part for spotlighting a burden-of-proof distinction between the DTSA and the ...

“At IPWatchdog’s 2025 Women’s IP Forum, Stewart told IPWatchdog President, Renee Quinn, that her familiarity with the agency enabled her to hit the ground running. ‘We reached terminal velocity early, ...

“Getting inventorship wrong now carries two independent enforcement penalties—one procedural, one intentional.” Neither result is entirely new. What is new is the two-track vulnerability the cases now ...

In a recent decision, the Fourth Circuit sided with the USPTO and Cuba, ruling the agency did nothing wrong letting ...

“According to the CAFC, [the expert] testimony could not reasonably support a finding of no anticipation since Song’s teachings extend beyond chewing gum applications and expressly cover a broad range ...

“A principled defense of IP cannot depend on whether one admires Google. Property rules worthy of the name are neutral.” Alden Abbott recently captured Europe’s digital-policy contradiction with a ...

ECI Innovations, LLC, a company that designs and licenses financial products, is seeking an experienced intellectual property professional to join the company as a Partner on a part-time, permanent ...

Liability and damages are separate legal questions, but too often only lip service is paid to that distinction, which leads to a sequencing error that can be ...