In Consumer Watchdog v. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) ordered the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and the United States, represented by the Department of Justice (DOJ), to submit separate briefs to the court unless they could agree to a joint position. In issuing this unusual order, the court anticipated that the views of the PTO and DOJ might differ because of the agencies\u27 disagreement over the proper standard of patent eligibility. In Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., decided earlier that year, the DOJ argued that isolated genomic DNA (gDNA) was not patent-eligible, contradicting the PTO\u27s longtime practice of granting pat...
Interactions between the PTO and the courts are more complex than for most agencies. PTO decisions m...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in Vornado Air Circulation Systems Inc. v....
The Federal Circuit¿s dismissal of Consumer Watchdog¿s appeal in 2014 illustrates a systemic shortco...
In Consumer Watchdog v. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the Court of Appeals for the Federal C...
In Medicines Co. v. Hospira, Inc., 827 F.3d 1363 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (en banc), the United States filed...
The Supreme Court’s implicit deference to the Office of the Solicitor General in patent cases is wel...
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Petitioner Oil States Energy Services sued respondent Greene’s Energy Group in a district court on s...
In re Zurko isolated one of the oldest U.S. agencies from mainstream administrative law because the ...
In the 1970s and early 1980s the US Supreme Court issued several landmark decisions establishing the...
The widespread belief that patent law is special has shaped the development of patent law into one o...
This is a brief of 72 IP professors opposing the claim in Oil States that the IPR procedure is uncon...
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of certain adjudications of patent ri...
Historically, patent litigation has been viewed and treated primarily as private law litigation, as ...
Last month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for a case called Arthrex, Inc. v. United States ...
Interactions between the PTO and the courts are more complex than for most agencies. PTO decisions m...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in Vornado Air Circulation Systems Inc. v....
The Federal Circuit¿s dismissal of Consumer Watchdog¿s appeal in 2014 illustrates a systemic shortco...
In Consumer Watchdog v. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the Court of Appeals for the Federal C...
In Medicines Co. v. Hospira, Inc., 827 F.3d 1363 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (en banc), the United States filed...
The Supreme Court’s implicit deference to the Office of the Solicitor General in patent cases is wel...
The subject patent in the case of Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation v. Genentech, Inc.I was a...
Petitioner Oil States Energy Services sued respondent Greene’s Energy Group in a district court on s...
In re Zurko isolated one of the oldest U.S. agencies from mainstream administrative law because the ...
In the 1970s and early 1980s the US Supreme Court issued several landmark decisions establishing the...
The widespread belief that patent law is special has shaped the development of patent law into one o...
This is a brief of 72 IP professors opposing the claim in Oil States that the IPR procedure is uncon...
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of certain adjudications of patent ri...
Historically, patent litigation has been viewed and treated primarily as private law litigation, as ...
Last month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for a case called Arthrex, Inc. v. United States ...
Interactions between the PTO and the courts are more complex than for most agencies. PTO decisions m...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in Vornado Air Circulation Systems Inc. v....
The Federal Circuit¿s dismissal of Consumer Watchdog¿s appeal in 2014 illustrates a systemic shortco...