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3 days ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |John M. Rogitz |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann
“Referring to his solution as ‘equalization,’ Trump said, ‘starting today the United States will no longer subsidize the healthcare of foreign countries…. We will no longer tolerate price gouging from big pharma.'”On Sunday, May 11, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he would sign an Executive Order today aimed at lowering prescription drug prices.
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4 days ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann |Eileen McDermott
Howard Lutnick is the first Secretary of Commerce to ever be a patented inventor and is a named inventor on some 400 patents. He is also the only Secretary of Commerce to ever attend the annual Inventors Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which is one of the best nights of the year for the industry—akin to the Academy Awards for patented inventors.
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1 week ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Steve Brachmann |Gene Quinn
[ipw_quote“[T]he expert [told] the jury what button presses were equivalent: He ‘identified the distinct ‘series of button presses’ at issue.
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1 week ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Eileen McDermott
“By all outward indications, the Trump Administration seems to clearly believe the PTAB has gone too far, and that patents matter.”The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has come under fire from patent owners since virtually the beginning of its existence. Once predicted to handle between 450 to 500 challenges a year, between April 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025, the PTAB received 1,395 petitions.
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1 week ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann |John M. Rogitz
[itpw_quote]“On the record, the AI executed the traditional elements of authorship, while Dr. Thaler’s contribution was to build an AI system generally capable of generating creative works, and then to have, effectively, ‘pushed a button’ that resulted in the output of a particular creative work.” – Thaler petition[/ipw_quote] Dr. Stephen Thaler, who has been fighting to have his AI machines recognized as both inventors and creators on several fronts for the last few years, has petitioned for...
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1 week ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Eileen McDermott |Steve Brachmann |Austin Padgett
This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we have a conversation that was recorded at the end of our AI 2025 program in front of a live studio audience. Joining me were Stephanie Curcio, Clint Mehall, and John Rogitz, who make up the new IPWatchdog Advisory Committee. They have all been long-time attendees at our events, they often speak on panels, they often written articles for us, and now they will help advise me with respect to programs and continue to provide content for IPWatchdog.com.
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1 week ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Steve Brachmann |Gene Quinn |John M. Rogitz
“Cellspin Soft’s cert petition also attacked the Federal Circuit’s finding that any error in the district court’s analysis of recusal was harmless, arguing that errors to constitutional due process are so structural in nature that they cannot be harmless.”The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in Cellspin Soft v.
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1 week ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Eileen McDermott
“A solution for the backlog is needed now, and an after final program can and should be a part of that solution.”In December 2024, the Biden Administration elected to end the After Final Consideration Pilot 2.0, better known as AFCP 2.0. The choice to do away with what was a popular program was confusing—to say the least. AFCP 2.0 was always touted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as being a part of the agency’s desire to promote compact prosecution.
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2 weeks ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Eileen McDermott
“Notwithstanding subtle changes that will likely be interpreted as not directly overruling the core holding in Myriad, PERA 2025 does continue to explicitly eliminate the so-called judicial exceptions to patent eligibility created by the Supreme Court.” Earlier today, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025 was introduced in both the Senate and House of Representatives, with Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), Representative Kevin Kiley (R-CA) and Representative...
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2 weeks ago | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Steve Brachmann |Gene Quinn |Robert Daniel
“Unlike in Dyfan, where the expert’s testimony that the term ‘code’ / ‘application’ connoted software structure to a POSA was unrebutted, here, neither expert testified that the payment-handler terms connoted structure.” – CAFCThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision Wednesday affirming a district court’s finding for PayPal Holdings, Inc. that certain claims of Fintiv, Inc.’s patents for a mobile wallet payment system were invalid as indefinite.
