Crocs asks the Supreme Court whether one ITC determination can start two appeal clocks after the Federal Circuit dismissed ...

Back in May 2023 I wrote a short post about the University of Texas study that used a GPT-style language model to reconstruct the gist of stories from fMRI scans (An API for the Human Mind, May 6, ...

Supreme Court patent docket swells with 13 petitions, two more pending, and major fights over IPR review, eligibility, damages, and claim scope.

§ 11.101 (competence), § 11.103 (diligence), § 11.804(c) (misrepresentation), and § 11.804(d) (conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice). Mitchell ran his second AI tool as the reviewer, ...

The "optimization" claims of US8842761 and US10693700 are ineligible under § 101; The "constellation" claims of US11019509 and US11018922 are eligible; The infringement verdict stands (denial of JMOL ...

A patentable invention needs to be more than simply "new." Rather, an invention requires a substantial step beyond what was already known in the field. Since 1952, this doctrine has been known as ...

Patent law cases often turn on timing. In our first-to-file system, the question often boils down to whether the patent at issue was effectively filed before the competing patent application. This ...

A few years ago the USPTO created an AI-patent classifier that identifies AI related patent applications. I used that classifier to update activity through 2026. No surprise, AI application receive ...

Collision Communications filed its opening brief yesterday in Collision Communications, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., No. 2026-1893 (Fed. Cir.), appealing Judge Gilstrap’s refusal to enjoin Samsung ...

The UK Supreme Court this morning unanimously revived Tesla's challenge to the royalty charged by the Avanci 5G licensing platform, and held along the way that the Delaware Court of Chancery is not an ...

Board of Regents of the University of Texas System v. Boston Scientific Corp., Nos. 2024-2062, -2063 (Fed. Cir. July 27, 2026), erases a $42 million Delaware jury verdict and holds that Boston ...

When do patent attorneys actually file? Not first thing in the morning, and not in a rush at the end of the business day. Across roughly 475,000 USPTO electronic filings May-June 2025, volume climbs ...