On August 10, 2026, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Dental Monitoring SAS v. Align Technology, Inc., fundamentally...

Following the introduction of the “Subject Matter Eligibility Declaration” (SMED) term in December 2025, the United States Patent and...

On March 13, 2026, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published Supplemental Guidance for Examination of Design Patent...

On March 13, 2026, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published supplemental examination guidance in the Federal...

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

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Effective May 13, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will implement a significant change to its patent issuance...

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

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced the creation of the Patent Fraud Detection and Mitigation Working Group....

This week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) made two announcements of interest to patent holders and practitioners as part of...

Can a non-human machine be an author under the Copyright Act of 1976? In a March 18, 2025 precedential opinion, a D.C. Circuit panel...