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2 months ago | ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Steve Brachmann |Daniel Wright |Josh Sloat

IPWatchdog LIVE Moves to March in 2025: Click for details “Vidal’s brief claims the Eastern District of Texas’ jury instructions regarding patent eligibility ‘misstate the relevant [Alice step two] inquiry, and their use in this case—and in others that use them as a model—constitutes reversible error.’” Former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal, now with Winston & Strawn, filed an amicus brief on Tuesday in an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal...

2 months ago | ipwatchdog.com | Daniel Wright |Josh Sloat |David Jackrel |Eileen McDermott

IPWatchdog LIVE Moves to March in 2025: Click for details So, your patent application got rejected. Now what? In this month’s episode of Patently Strategic, we’re talking about rejection. Specifically, the type that comes from the patent office in the form of an intimidating-sounding three-digit number when your application gets denied by an examiner.

Dec 9, 2024 | ipwatchdog.com | Kristen Hansen |David Jackrel |Josh Sloat |Steve Brachmann

Support IPWatchdog with an individual sponsorship: Click here An invention cannot be patented if the differences between a claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made.

Nov 8, 2024 | ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Joseph Allen |Steve Brachmann |Josh Sloat

Support IPWatchdog with an individual sponsorship: Click here “I am not convinced that injury for interference with property provides the necessary ‘close historical or common-law analogue’ to Plaintiffs’ alleged injury.”- District Court opinion The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday, November 7, dismissed a copyright infringement complaint filed by Raw Story Media and Alternet Media against OpenAI, holding that the news outlets lacked Article III standing...

Nov 7, 2024 | ipwatchdog.com | Josh Sloat |Julie Burke |David Jackrel

Support IPWatchdog with an individual sponsorship: Click here Patent examiners can make mistakes. Patent office clerks can misfile paperwork and cause procedural errors. The software tools, document formats like DOCX, and the IT systems your application passes through can have bugs. What recourse do you have when quality issues creep in at this stage? This is where petition practice, fortunately, comes to the rescue.