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Sep 11, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Ashley Sloat |Ty Davis |Josh Sloat |David Jackrel
Void of pursuing continuations, the language of your patent is frozen in time at issuance. The specifics of the enforceable boundaries of your protection are forever fixed to the claims you chose to pursue with your initial application – but not necessarily with the full breadth of your invention as conceived. For many reasons, practitioners and inventors will often choose to limit how much of an invention is claimed in an initial application. But then the future happens. Case law changes.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Josh Sloat |Matt Phillips |David Jackrel |Ty Davis
The most terrifying thing that can happen to a patent owner is receiving an inter partes review (IPR) petition. This is a tool that accused infringers can use to invalidate patents. And they have … to alarming effect. As we’ve discussed, the kill rate at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is staggering.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
agproud.com | Ty Davis
As the field of cattle science progresses, we delve deeper into a previously unexplored domain: the ruminant gut microbiome. Each animal hosts a distinct set of organisms, many of which remain unknown in terms of their specific functions and interactions.
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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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May 15, 2024 | 
agproud.com | Ty Davis
High-moisture corn (HMC) is an important feedstuff utilized in many ruminant operations. It is typically harvested at between 24% and 32% moisture and provides many benefits such as early harvest, no drying cost and an increase in digestibility when compared to typical non-processed, dried ear corn. During fermentation in the ensiling process, the starch-protein matrix in the granule undergoes changes, facilitating enhanced digestibility.
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May 9, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | David Jackrel |Josh Sloat |Ty Davis
The difference between getting claim construction right and getting it wrong is the difference between a valid patent and an invalid patent – and potentially the difference between millions of dollars awarded from infringement decisions vs. ending up with a worthless piece of paper. In this month’s podcast episode, we’re talking about costly tales of claim construction fails. This is the final episode in a three-part series focused on the fundamentals of patent claims and claim construction.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Josh Sloat |David Jackrel |Ashley Sloat |Ty Davis
For decades, conventional wisdom had most of us believing that automation and the inevitable rise of the machines would upend blue-collar industries first. But then AI had something to say about all of that. From to writing code to even acing the Uniform Bar Examination, AI has become society’s latest (and perhaps most capable!) change agent in the professional workplace. At an astonishing pace, it’s erasing all assumptions as to what industries will be most impacted.
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Oct 14, 2023 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Kelly Hughes |Alec Pronk |Eileen McDermott |Ty Davis
It was a relatively average week for patent filings in the district court with 59 new complaints. New filings included multiple filings associated with high-volume plaintiffs such as Jeffrey Gross, Leigh Rothschild, as well as a slew of filings from Pueblo Nuevo in a banking campaign. Meanwhile, XR Communications settled three inter partes reviews (IPRs) and filed two new cases against wireless carriers.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Ty Davis |Josh Sloat
Claims are the fundamental building blocks of a patent. There simply is not a more important concept to grasp in all of patent strategy. As former Chief Justice of the Federal Circuit, Giles Rich, once famously said, “The name of the game is the claim.” And in terms of what game you’re playing, the claims are where you separate the patents playing checkers from the patents playing chess.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
ipwatchdog.com | Ashley Sloat |Josh Sloat |Ty Davis
Non-diluting capital can be an essential source of funding when trying to get your innovation off the ground. Investor money comes with the loss of equity and/or control. Family and friends’ money may come with the risk of strained relationships. In comparison, essentially free money by way of government grants can seem like an obvious choice, right? And it is for many.
