Veterans Day Q&A 2021
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Articles
Understanding A Company's Duty To Prep For Depositions
An article written by Charlie Steenburg, Jason Balich, and Alex Kim titled “Understanding A Company's Duty To Prep For Depositions” was published in Law360. In this article, the authors discuss the pr...
Boston Patent Law Association Response to USPTO Request for Information on the Current State of Patent Eligibility Jurisprudence in the United States
Jonathan Roses co-authored on behalf of the Boston Patent Law Association's (BPLA’s) Patent Office Practice Committee an October 2021 Response to USPTO Request for Information on the current state of ...
Why Your TTAB Judgment May Fall Flat in Court
An article written by John Welch of Wolf Greenfield and Martin Schwimmer of Leason Ellis titled “Why Your TTAB Judgment May Fall Flat in Court” was published in World Trademark Review (WTR). In this a...
Protecting User Interfaces and Mobile Applications with Design Patents
Many questions have been raised about the patentability of software in the wake of the Alice Corp. decision by the Supreme Court. While the precise scope of the new approach on abstract ideas is being...
TTAB Upholds Fraud Claim Against Distributor of Massage Chairs Who Registered Manufacturer's Mark
John Welch wrote an article published by World Trademark Review titled "TTAB Upholds Fraud Claim Against Distributor of Massage Chairs Who Registered Manufacturer's Mark." In this article, John discus...
Extending Ezra: Federal District Court Declines to “Cut Off” Patent Term Adjustment in View of Alleged Obviousness-Type Double Patenting in Mitsubishi v. Sandoz
In Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. v. Sandoz, Inc., the District Court for the District of New Jersey considered whether a patent receiving patent term adjustment (PTA) may be invalidated for obviousne...
When is a Name More Than Just a Name?
This article is part of Wolf Greenfield's design patents page. To learn more about design patents, click here. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was tasked with determining whether a design...
Poring Over Enablement: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. v. Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Inc.
Overview In a recent case analyzing enablement and the weight of remarks made at trial about a technology’s relevance to COVID-19, the Federal Circuit affirmed a United States District Court for the D...
Experts Connect™ No. 15: Exploring the Reasons that Guiding Case No. 20 Lost Its Guiding Effect
An article titled "Exploring the Reasons that Guiding Case No. 20 Lost Its Guiding Effect" was published in China Law Connect, a journal of Stanford Law Schools' China Guiding Cases Project. Read more...
Boston Patent Law Association Response to Request for Comments on Administrative Updates to the General Requirements Bulletin for Admission to the Examination for Registration to Practice...
Jonathan Roses co-authored on behalf of the Boston Patent Law Association's (BPLA’s) Patent Office Practice Committee a May 2021 Response to USPTO Request for Comments on proposed updates to the USPTO...
Your IPR Petition Was Denied at Institution – What Next? The Federal Circuit Provides Insights on Petitioners’ Options
Mylan v. Janssen considers a topic IPR petitioners may be concerned about when institution of their petition is denied by the PTAB – is there any way to appeal the decision? The Federal Circuit held t...