10 May, 2024 Safeguarding Antibody-Drug Conjugate Innovation: Lessons From More Than 500 Clinical Trials By Oyvind Dahle The Udofa et al., Bioengineering & Translational Medicine (2024) article linked below offers a wealth of timely and practical insights...
12 Apr, 2024 IPR Filings on Sustained Upward Trajectory By Roberto Fernandez A recent report from patent data powerhouse RPX Corp. shows that inter partes review (IPR) filings have increased significantly over the...
04 Apr, 2024 U.S. Patent Office Punishes Applicants For Long Examinations By Paul Hunter The new fee proposals from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office have one thing in common: encouraging applicants to have quick examinations...
02 Apr, 2024 3D Printing Patent Trends Show Growth in Surprising Areas By Roberto Fernandez The EPO published a study showing that 3D printing is a white hot area in patent filings. The study found that “between 2013 and 2020,...
07 Feb, 2024 U.S. Patent Office Issues Guidance on Use of AI in Legal Proceedings By Paul Hunter Director Kathi Vidal of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently gave some basic guidelines when discussing the use...
20 Dec, 2023 UK Supreme Court Rules Inventor Must Be a Natural Person By Austin Kim Stephen Thaler's quest to have patent offices throughout the world recognize AI agents as inventors is thwarted again, this time by the...
08 Dec, 2023 Biden Threatens to Cancel Pharma Patents By Paul Hunter The U.S. government is threatening to go after companies who obtained patents on drugs developed with the help of government grants. The...
27 Oct, 2023 "A" in a Patent Claim Means "One or More" Says Federal Circuit Yet Again By Mark Danielson Two familiar aspects of claim-construction analysis strongly support the plural-allowing meaning here. First, “at least in an open-ended...
20 Sep, 2023 AI Will Make Patents More "Salient" By Paul Hunter This NPR Marketplace article interviews Professor Janet Frelich about her Virginia Law Review paper discussing the changing nature of...