USPTO Tells Fed. Circ. Only Humans Can Be Inventors - Law360

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the Federal Circuit to uphold a Virginia federal judge's ruling that artificial intelligence cannot be listed as an inventor on a patent application.

Third Party Submissions

In a prior post, I wrote about third party prior art submissions, but that post was only looking at issued …

PTAB Procedural Decisions Report: Non-Merits Based Decisions Rise, Denials Fall — Unified Patents

It was another year of hundreds of procedural denials at the PTAB, as many as any other previous year, save 2020’s record high.  At the same time, the Board ruled on Fintiv and discretionary issues in almost half of all decisions. he dip in the...

PTO Will Transition to Electronic Issuance of Patents and Trademarks | JD Supra

The US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) announced on December 10, 2021, that it intends to transition to electronic issuance of patents and trademarks...

A Whole Lot of “Cobbl[e]”-ty Gook After Wertheim

Holding: In Indivior UK Ltd. v. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories S.A., No. 20-2073 (Fed. Cir. 2021), the Federal Circuit issued an opinion (“Majority Opinion”) affirming a decision

Shots Fired: Challenger Must Have Requisite Standing Before Appealing Unfavorable IPR Decisions | JD Supra

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found, in the context of an appeal from an inter partes review (IPR) decision, that the appellant had...

Dave Lane (@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)

If you don't realise how utterly broken the entire US patent system is, watch this: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=PqdB93lCqHc

Patent Trial and Appeal Board Set Date for Oral Hearing in Interference No. 106,115

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has set February 4th at 1:00 pm EST for the Oral Hearing in the Priority Phase of Interference No. 106,115 between the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, "Broad") as...

USPTO News Briefs

By Donald Zuhn -- Updated First Office Action Estimator Tool Now Available In a Patent Alert email distributed earlier today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that an updated First Office Action Estimator online tool is now available...

Review of VLSI Patents in Intel Fight Seen Enticing ‘Opportunists’

An administrative tribunal’s decision to accept validity challenges to VLSI Technology LLC patents supporting a $2.18 billion verdict against Intel Corp. invites profiteers to abuse the system, some attorneys warn.

Wikipedia as Prior Art

Here is a fun chart showing the percentage of U.S. patents that cite to Wikipedia as prior art. I created …

$2,000 for Guzik Technical Enterprises prior art — Unified Patents

On January 28, 2022, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 7,221,220 . The patent is owned by Guzik Technical Enterprises, an NPE. The '220 patent generally...

IPO & Harrity Analytics Release List of Top 300 Patent Holders for 2021

Life Sciences "Top 55" By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier this month, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and Harrity Analytics announced the release of the 39th annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. utility patents (see...