Steve Brachmann
Freelance Columnist at IP Watchdog
Freelance writer and IP law journalist for @ipwatchdog. I like crafting fact-based stories to produce news that's fit to print. Also, actor and hockey fan.
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ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann |Stephen Schreiner
“PERA 2025 still says that unmodified human genes as they exist in the human body are not patent eligible, but prior versions of the bill said that isolation of genes was considered a modification.”Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) today signed onto the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025 as co-sponsors with Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE).
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ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann |Stephen Schreiner
“The petition argued that ‘[p]atents would provide little protection if confined to the strict, literal terms of their claims; ‘[o]utright and forthright duplication is a dull and very rare type of infringement,’ and ‘[t]o prohibit no other would place the inventor at the mercy of verbalism.’” The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to grant a number of IP petitions, including one in which a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled in October 2024 that...
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ipwatchdog.com | Steve Brachmann |Gene Quinn
“Siding with Apple, the Federal Circuit ruled that the district court’s verdict form violated Apple’s right under the Seventh Amendment to a jury trial on each legal claim against it presented by Optis.”Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential ruling in Optis Cellular Technology, LLC v. Apple, Inc. vacating infringement and damages judgments awarded to Optis by the Eastern District of Texas.
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ipwatchdog.com | Stephen Schreiner |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann
“In finding that the petitioner’s prior knowledge of the patent and its failure to act outweighed these other factors, the Director has effectively established a new basis for discretionary denial under Section 314(a) to add the existing list.”The recent decision in iRhythm Technologies v. Welch Allyn Inc., IPR2025-00377, et al.
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ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann
“When you take away incentives you will get less innovation—and not limited to the targeted category of innovation… If there are fewer medical diagnostics there will be fewer medical devices and treatments.”It’s easy to talk about innovation. But true innovation is groundbreaking, disruptive and transformative. And that type of innovation, which is the kind that we say we most desperately need and want, doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
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Former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu directly responds to Musk/Dorsey "delete all IP law" tweet at IPAS 2025 keynote - "We believe that innovation just happens, but it doesn't, because if it did, it would have happened over hundreds of thousands of years of human existence."
Episode 1 of IP Innovators, sponsored by @DeepIP_AI - From Paper Trails to Patent AI: Paul Hunter on 27 Years of Patent Practice https://t.co/qQGlf3Hxjf
Senator @ChuckGrassley (R-IA), Senate Judiciary Chair, excoriating the Senate's short work week at today's SJC meeting: "We can't solve this country's problems if we don't get together more than 2 and a 1/2 days a week to get business done."
