Patent eligibility decisions are not new. Courts have grappled with what can and cannot be patented for years, especially in the technology ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Thursday, January 22, issued a precedential decision affirming a ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) designated four decisions as precedential and nine decisions as informative, all ...

On Friday, the USPTO designated a series of decisions on discretionary denial requests as either precedential or informative, highlighting considerations important for both inter partes review (IPR) ...

At Managing IP’s PTAB Forum 2016, acting PTAB chief judge Nathan Kelley said that precedential decisions help bring consistency both within the Board and for practitioners before the Board. "That’s ...

After a relatively busy 2020 in which the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) designated over a dozen opinions as either precedential (11) or informative (4), the PTAB did not designate a single ...

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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has revised its standard operating procedures on panelling of matters and precedential and informative decisions The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has revised its ...

In an atypical move that will be welcomed by registrants, the TTAB has re-designated its October 2008 decision in Zanella Ltd v Nordstrom Inc from non-precedential to precedential. The issue in this ...

The Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments on Thursday in the landmark case over former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for president. The court is hearing an appeal by Trump ...