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Dec 10, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann |Kristen Hansen
Support IPWatchdog with an individual sponsorship: Click here “Our precedent demonstrates that an offer directed to a United States entity at its United States place of business is an offer ‘made in this country’ as required for pre-AIA § 102(b).” – CAFC The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Tuesday, December 10, in its sixth precedential patent opinion of the last week, reversed and remanded a district court finding that Crown Packaging Technology Inc.’s patents were...
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Eileen McDermott |Kristen Hansen |David Jackrel
Support IPWatchdog with an individual sponsorship: Click here This week my conversation is with Leo White, who is Chief IP Counsel and Associate General Counsel for The Duracell Company.
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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.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Kristen Hansen |Josh Sloat |David Jackrel |Ty Davis
Is your patent application only good enough to get through the examination process? Or has it been crafted to stand the tests of time and varied audiences if you later need to assert that document against an infringer, find yourself litigating with it in an Article 3 Court at the hands of a judge and jury, God forbid, end up having to defend its validity at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), or even needing to use it to block pirated imports at the International Trade Commission (ITC)?
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Kristen Hansen |Josh Sloat |David Jackrel |Eileen McDermott
Claim construction is a process in which courts attempt to interpret the meaning and scope of the claims of a patent. It’s effectively reconstructing what an inventor and their practitioner meant back when they drafted the patent application.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Matt Blaszczyk |Kristen Hansen |David Jackrel
“Our goal with this program is to get more cutting-edge technologies into the hands of consumers faster while reducing our dependence on the foreign supply of semiconductor chips.” – USPTO Director Kathi VidalThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that it is launching a pilot program to help promote semiconductor innovation by expediting examination for qualifying patents.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Kristen Hansen |David Jackrel |Josh Sloat
The global video game market in 2022 and is projected to exceed $300 billion by 2026. To put those numbers into perspective, this makes gaming bigger than the film and music industries combined – and dwarfs the combined revenue of the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL! Worldwide board game sales, while significantly less, still account for over $2 billion. That’s a whole lotta IP in need of protection, so in this month’s episode of Patently Strategic, we’re talking games.
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May 11, 2023 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Kristen Hansen
Use of free open-source code can be a massive accelerant when building complex software applications. Why reinvent wheels? And depending on resources and budget, sometimes it’s the only practical way. But like with most things, free often isn’t really free. The cost is just transferred somewhere else. When it comes to open source, these short-term savings can have significant long-term consequences for your intellectual property rights.
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May 11, 2023 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Kristen Hansen |Josh Sloat |Ty Davis
Use of free open-source code can be a massive accelerant when building complex software applications. Why reinvent wheels? And depending on resources and budget, sometimes it’s the only practical way. But like with most things, free often isn’t really free. The cost is just transferred somewhere else. When it comes to open source, these short-term savings can have significant long-term consequences for your intellectual property rights.
