The National Law Review8h
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Affirms Published Patent Applications Become Prior Art on Their Filing Date
Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. concerns an appeal of a decision from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) that upheld the ...
IPWatchdog11h
How to Improve Patent Quality for Everyone—Fast
Patents require reliability so they can incentivize investments in new technologies, their primary though little-noticed ...
JD Supra11h
Avoiding the hindsight trap in the context of a patent obviousness analysis
While courts have often warned that hindsight bias should be avoided when assessing whether a patented invention would have been obvious to ...
JD Supra14h
PTAB Decides Concurrent IPR and PGR Petitions After Resolving Priority Date Dispute
In anticipating a dispute over whether the America Invents Act would apply, Petitioner MPL Brands NV, Inc. (“MPL”) filed concurrent petitions for ...
University of Texas at San Antonio16h
Three UTSA researchers named NAI senior members
This year, 162 inventors hailing from 64 NAI member institutions across the nation joined the 2025 class of NAI Senior ...