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3/5/2026 9:20:00 PM

Federal Circuit: Conventional Techniques Do Not Bar Patent Eligibility

By Womble Bond Dickinson Seiko Okada B. Logan Buck

In REGENXBIO v. Sarepta Therapeutics, the Federal Circuit recently held that a cell containing a non-naturally occurring recombinant...

11/20/2025 8:23:00 PM

By Ben Bourke

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9/9/2025 7:28:00 PM

By Evan Boetticher

USPTO Acting Director Coke Stewart's introduction of settled expectations into the discretionary denial calculus for inter partes review...

5/5/2025 4:24:00 PM

By Kurt Prange

This article is a revised and updated version of an earlier article titled “Patent Protection for Entertainment Software Inventions”...

3/19/2025 6:20:00 PM

By Julie Giardina

The landscape of design patent law has recently evolved with the introduction of a new standard for determining obviousness. For decades,...

1/23/2025 9:07:00 PM

By Daniel Grigore Carrie Richey

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1/13/2025 4:57:00 PM

By James Dority

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1/26/2024 3:15:00 PM

By Ben Bourke Julie Broadus Meigs

On January 19, 2024, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an order denying the Petition for Rehearing En Banc in the much...

1/23/2024 2:58:00 PM

By Seiko Okada Julie Broadus Meigs

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1/9/2024 9:22:00 PM

By Alexander Wharton

An August 2023 decision from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals1 highlighted potential new fragilities in the patent portfolios of many...

6/5/2023 4:14:00 PM

By Jeff McIntyre

After reading the Supreme Court's decision in Amgen v. Sanofi, I thought of the doctrine of simultaneous conception and reduction to...

5/19/2023 6:36:00 PM

By Jeffrey Whittle Karthika Perumal Kevin Davis +3 more...

A closely watched and hotly debated life sciences patent dispute saw the U.S. Supreme Court affirm a narrow interpretation of patent...