Patent eligibility decisions are not new. Courts have grappled with what can and cannot be patented for years, especially in the technology ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) designated four decisions as precedential and nine decisions as informative, all ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Thursday, January 22, issued a precedential decision affirming a ...

At Managing IP’s PTAB Forum 2016, acting PTAB chief judge Nathan Kelley said that precedential decisions help bring consistency both within the Board and for practitioners before the Board. "That’s ...

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“The recent designations not only provide guidance to prospective litigants in PTAB proceedings, but develop the scope of PTAB litigation as a viable alternative to district court litigation.” As part ...

Gore has precedential value — and there have been considerable disputes about that — it should apply in this case…. The holding of Bush v. Gore is that you cannot in an arbitrary manner value one ...

Over the past year, the Supreme Court decided three important cases concerning the major questions doctrine. The third decision, West Virginia v. EPA, was decided on the regular docket. But the first ...

Newsflash…it’s 2015, and it might be time to reexamine the idea of unpublished opinions. For many years, having an opinion go unpublished meant that it was ...