Why File a Design Application?
Design applications may be a cost effective way to protect a commercialized product from competitors, or supplement other coverage of a utility application. In commercialized products, the design and ...
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Federal Circuit Clarifies Statutory Estoppel in Litigations with Co-Pending IPRs
Section 315(e)(2) states that once a final decision issues in an IPR challenging a claim, the Petitioner “may not assert either in [court or the ITC] that the claim is invalid on any ground that the p...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Drafting Clearer Patent Claims After Federal Circuit L'Oreal Ruling
(as published by Law360) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently highlighted an important rule of patent claim construction: that claim limitations should be construed in a way that...
Intellectual Property for Startups: Building a Toolkit to Protect Your Products and Design
(as published by IPWatchdog) “Many startups make the mistake of ignoring the value of non-patent intellectual property…. A company’s brand can be immensely valuable in the marketplace.”
Boston Patent Law Association Response to a USPTO Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Bayh-Dole Regulations
Jonathan Roses was the lead author on behalf of the Boston Patent Law Association’s (BPLA’s) Patent Office Practice and Licensing Committees of an April 2021 Response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemakin...
Discretionary Denial at the PTAB Based on Parallel Litigation
Discretionary denial has been a hot topic at the PTAB. On Wednesday, February 24th, Wolf Greenfield hosted a webinar to discuss discretionary denial at the PTAB, and in particular, discretionary denia...