On January 7, 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published updated examination guidance, instructing the examining corps and the PTAB how they should apply 35 U.S.C. § 101. On the same day, ...

We previously discussed the new personalized medicine example in the USPTO’s October 2019 Patent Eligibility Guidance Update. Here, we look at the new nature-based product example, and consider how it ...

Patenting an idea is one of the most effective ways to protect your intellectual property and secure a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Whether you are an individual inventor or a growing ...

As famously explained by Clayton Christensen in The Innovator’s Dilemma, innovation disrupts an industry first by offering a simple and affordable alternative, with initially inferior quality and then ...

“The [patent] statute confirms that IPRs should not be instituted based on patent applications that published after the priority date of the challenged patent [but] the PTAB has permitted IPRs to be ...

“We, the patent community…should work together to incrementally improve our system and find and fix rules that are not working as intended.” Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) is a statutory right ...