IP Talk Episode 45: Wolf Greenfield Attorneys Review 2024 and Look Ahead to 2025

2025 promises to be another busy year for intellectual property law. In this episode of IP Talk with Wolf Greenfield, you’ll hear Wolf Greenfield attorneys from a variety of practice areas reviewing some of the top issues of 2024 and offering their insights on what to expect in the months ahead. Here are some of the highlights:

01:02 - Chelsea Loughran’s thoughts on The University of California v. Broad Institute, a federal court case involving competing patent applications for the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system
02:25 - Zach Piccolomini is watching the Unified Patent Court (UPC) for upcoming decisions in the standard essential patent space and “fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory” royalties
03:34 - Jonathan Roses with insight on recent Orange Book developments and what to expect with the new administration
05:31 - Jen Wang offers advice for dealing with rejections in the wake of the Federal Circuit overturning a 40-year-old obviousness test for design patents in the LKQ v. GM case
06:34 - Scott McKeown on noteworthy 2024 developments at the USPTO and some thoughts for what might happen in 2025
08:43 - John Strand on the Dewberry case, which was just argued before the Supreme Court (a decision is expected in the spring)
10:23 - Gabe McCool discusses the BIOSECURE Act