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Peter Schechter

Political Commentator and Co-Host at Altamar Podcast

Columnist at BRINK

Political commentator and cohost of @altamarpodcast | Co-Founder @immigrantfooddc | FMR: Senior Vice President, @AtlanticCouncil and Founding Director @ACLatAm

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  • Nov 4, 2024 | mondaq.com | Autumn Villarreal |Peter Schechter

    On September 16, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) vacated and remanded an invalidity ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District Minnesota which concluded that independent claims using the same language to define different boundaries of a "substantially rigid portion/segment" of a catheter were "mutually exclusive" and, therefore, indefinite.

  • Oct 16, 2024 | mondaq.com | Peter Schechter

    On October 1, 2024 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced a brief extension and then termination on December 15, 2024 of the After Final Consideration Pilot Program 2.0 ("AFCP 2.0"). In response to proposed new fees for participation in the AFCP 2.0, feedback from the public revealed an unwillingness to pay for the program. Stated differently, the program's benefit was not seen as being worth the added cost of participation.

  • Jul 31, 2024 | mondaq.com | Peter Schechter |Sarah Grossman

    In Luca McDermott Catena Gift Trust v. Fructuoso-Hobbs SL (“Luca McDermott”) 1, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC” or “Federal Circuit”) held that a minority limited partner of a limited partnership, Paul Hobbs Winery, LP (“Hobbs Winery”), could not satisfy the statutory-standing requirement and therefore was not entitled to a statutory cause of action.

  • Dec 10, 2023 | mondaq.com | Peter Schechter

    Whether in film or television crime dramas, most people have seen a suspected criminal given her "Miranda Warning" which includes the familiar line: "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently ruled that patent applicants, in certain circumstances, may make statements during prosecution of their applications without any consequences at all. In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Miranda v.

  • Oct 2, 2023 | mondaq.com | Peter Schechter

    After recently reminding that in order for commercial success of an invention to support non-obviousness, the required nexus cannot rest solely on a claim element that is known in the prior art, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has further reminded patent owners and applicants that nexus may be established upon consideration of the claimed combination as a whole, even if individual elements of the claim are found in the prior art. We recently explained that in Yita LLC v.

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Peter Schechter
Peter Schechter @PDSchechter
24 May 23

President Zelensky is on a world tour to garner support for Ukraine’s defense. First Saudi Arabia for the Arab League Summit and then Japan for the G7 Summit. Not meetings he would have likely been attending before the war. https://t.co/JfxNnVZYt0

Peter Schechter
Peter Schechter @PDSchechter
24 May 23

Have you heard of "de-risking"? A new viral term used by diplomats to replace "decoupling" when talking about China. But historically, the word "de-risking" was associated with the financial exclusion of minorities. https://t.co/sjxaif59Sc

Peter Schechter
Peter Schechter @PDSchechter
24 May 23

President Biden had to rush home to deal with the debt crisis. So, he canceled a trip to Papua New Guinea designed to prove US commitment to the region. Once again, US internal politics damage the battle to counter Chinese influence. https://t.co/UO2ZGJMM4d