Category: NEWS

  New Claim Construction Standard at the PTAB as of November 13, 2018 By Bradley J. Van Pelt The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has now issued a final rule

  Is a New Crystal Polymorph Useful and Non-Obvious Over a Prior Art Form of the Same Chemical Formula? By Sarah A. Kagan Four Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) litigants

Aseet Patel discusses the potential for more clarity for United States patents involving software innovations, and how that could lead to an improvement in depressed patent valuations, increase in patent licensing activity and raised

Sarah A. Kagan discusses the potential impact of the Federal Circuit’s decision invalidating patents on Acorda Therapeutics Inc.’s multiple sclerosis drug Ampyra in Law360. Ms. Kagan authored an amicus brief that BIO filed

Jeffrey Chang volunteered to teach public school students in Washington, D.C., about the Constitution today as part of the American Constitution Society Constitution in the Classroom program. The DC Bar partnered with

Timothy C. Meece and Audra C. Eidem Heinze analyze the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., on the business and legal community for

Kirk A. Sigmon explains how startups can avoid or mitigate intellectual property traps if they avoid five common mistakes in World Intellectual Property Review. Click here to read the article, “5 common

  Does Secret Prior Art Survive in the AIA? Twelve Interested Parties Weigh In By Sarah A. Kagan In May, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the

  Company Founder Joined and Potentially Liable for Attorneys’ Fees — An Interesting Wrinkle in a Typical “Exceptional” Case By Scott M. Kelly and Apurv Gaurav In the wake of

  Full Panel of Fed. Cir. Clarifies that Even Voluntarily Dismissed Cases Start the Year Time-Bar Clock for Inter Partes Review By Bradley J. Van Pelt and Kevin C. Keenan