IP Alerts

INTRODUCTION

This alert is part of Wolf Greenfield's COVID-19 Resource Center. To access the full resource center, click here. On March 31, 2020, the USPTO announced the availability of 30-day extensions of time f...

This IP alert is part of Wolf Greenfield's COVID-19 Resource Center. To access the full resource center, click here. The US Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) is implementing an important change th...

Introduction

The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently released new guidance to its examiners on how claims are to be examined under 35 U.S.C. § 101, to determine whether claims recite patent-eligible...

*This IP Alert was written in May 2018. Apple and Samsung settled the case in June 2018.

Introduction On April 24, 2018, the Supreme Court issued decisions in two highly anticipated matters concerning IPRs: Oil States Energy Services v. Greene’s Energy Group and SAS Institute Inc. v. Ianc...

Introduction

Introduction Over seven years after the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) was signed into law, the Supreme Court has answered two fiercely disputed questions about how certain rul...

Summary The Supreme Court yesterday reversed the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and ruled that a patent owner’s sale of a patented product exhausts all patent rights, regardless of where the sale oc...

In a decision likely to alter the current patent litigation landscape, the Supreme Court today ruled that patent infringement lawsuits may only be filed in a district where a defendant is either (a) i...

Summary On Tuesday March 21, 2017, the Supreme Court issued a 7-1 decision in SCA Hygiene Products v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC, ruling that laches—the notion that a plaintiff prejudiced a defe...