July 13, 2021
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap on Tuesday dismissed U.S. Inventor's challenge to Patent Trial and Appeal Board precedent allowing the board to turn away America Invents Act reviews based on the timing of co-pending district court litigation and lectured the organization for misdirecting its political goals.
July 07, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court will be deciding later this year whether to take up a highly controversial patent eligibility case, while a California federal court mulls whether discretionary denial precedent at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is legal. Here are five cases in patent attorneys' sights for the rest of the year.
June 24, 2021
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap next week will consider an inventor group's bid to halt the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from instituting patent reviews until the agency goes through a rulemaking process concerning when it denies reviews based on parallel litigation. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
February 22, 2021
Inventor group U.S. Inventor is asking a Texas federal court to block the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from instituting new patent challenges until the agency undertakes a formal rulemaking process concerning its policy of denying review based on parallel litigation.