May 16, 2024
A D.C. federal judge on Thursday found the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has sufficiently proven that inventor Gilbert Hyatt forfeited the right to receive certain patents based on decades of delay, but made clear that his finding was the result of a Federal Circuit mandate, not how he thought the case should be approached.
July 24, 2020
A D.C. federal judge has ordered both the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and a prolific inventor to pay part of each other's expenses in a long-running battle over delayed patent applications, finding the office showed "bad faith" in some aspects but not others.
September 21, 2018
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged a judge to stay an order directing it to issue patents to an inventor claiming his applications have been improperly stalled, arguing the court has no authority to make that order, while the inventor says the court clearly has the power.
August 07, 2018
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to issue three patents to prolific inventor Gilbert Hyatt, finding that many of his patent claims were incorrectly rejected, a win for Hyatt in his case alleging the office is wrongly stalling his patent applications.