Insights
June 30, 2020 Your Internet Street Address is Safe: Generic.com Can Function as a Trademark if your Consumers Say So Marshall Gerstein Alert Maureen Beacom Gorman
June 12, 2020 “Data Privacy Law and Intellectual Property Considerations for Biometric-Based AI Innovations” Security Magazine Ryan Phelan
June 2, 2020 "Today's Robotics Innovation Landscape and the Role of IP in the Field of Robotics" Robotics Tomorrow Nicholas Terrell and Shannon Hughes Mastick
May 2020 Issue "Private Matter: Data Privacy Law and Intellectual Property Considerations for Biometric Based Artificial Intelligence Innovations" Intellectual Property Magazine Ryan Phelan
April 2020 In a recent case (Cardionet, LLC v. Infobionic, Inc.) demonstrating the patentability of medical devices in the U.S., the Federal Circuit found a cardiac monitor device not abstract (and, therefore, patent eligible) under the Supreme Court's Alice test Marshall Gerstein Insights Ryan Phelan
December 24, 2019 "What’s in the USPTO’s 2019 Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance Update?" World Intellectual Property Review Ryan N. Phelan
November 27, 2019 "Patent Practice Tips After the USPTO Guidance Update" Bloomberg Law Ryan N. Phelan
November 27, 2019 "INSIGHT: Three Practice Tips Since USPTO Updated Its Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance" Bloomberg Law Ryan N. Phelan
November 13, 2019 "ITC Launches IP Probe Into Reusable Straws From China" (featured quotes) Law360 Benjamin T. Horton
November 8, 2019 "Lawyers React as Federal Circuit Takes on Constitutional Conundrum" (featured quotes) Managing Intellectual Property Benjamin T. Horton
September 16, 2019 "How Patent Landscape Studies Can Guide Medical Device Innovation" Medical Design Briefs Daniel T. Chavka
August 2019 "Five Years After Alice: Five Lessons Learned from the Treatment of Software Patents in Litigation" World Intellectual Property Organization Magazine August 2019 Joseph A. Saltiel
June 17, 2019 State University Patents Are Not Immune from Inter Partes Review Marshall Gerstein Alert Julie M. Watson
May 14, 2019 "Three Indicators a Software Patent May Be Unenforceable" Bloomberg Law Joseph A. Saltiel
April 26, 2019 "7 Non-Alice Considerations For Software Patents" Law360 Joseph A. Saltiel
April 2, 2019 Japan Patent Office Relaxes Reduced-Fee Requirements Marshall Gerstein Alert Jeremy D. Protas
February 24, 2019 "Return Mail Reaction: Patent Bar Sampling Narrowly Favors Finding for Petitioner" (featured quotes) IPWatchdog Ryan N. Phelan
February 18, 2019 "SCOTUS to Consider Whether Government is a 'Person' (featured quotes) World IP Review Ryan N. Phelan
September 2018 "Making 3D Printing Eco-Friendly: A Potential Opportunity for Patent Protection" INNOVATE Magazine Meggan Duffy and Daniel Chavka
July 30, 2018 "Federal Circuit Ruling Invites PTAB Fights Over Hidden Parties" (featured quotes) Law360 Ryan N. Phelan
June 15, 2018 "What PTAB Attorneys Need to Know About Real Parties-in-Interest" (featured quotes) Law360 Ryan N. Phelan
May 2, 2018 – Presentation 3D Printing Roundtable Daniel Chavka, Meggan Duffy, and Julianne Hartzell
April 24, 2018 Supreme Court Decides that IPR Final Decisions Must Address All Challenged Claims Marshall Gerstein Alert Sandip H. Patel and Michael R. Weiner
April 24, 2018 The Supreme Court Finds IPR Proceedings Constitutional Marshall Gerstein Alert Thomas L. Duston and Julianne M. Hartzell
January 1, 2018 "Patent Litigation Trends to Watch in 2018" (featured quotes) Law360 Benjamin T. Horton
November 16, 2017 "Federal Circuit Confirms TC Heartland Changed the Law" (featured quotes) World Intellectual Property Review Thomas L. Duston
November 15, 2017 "Federal Circuit Sends Muddy Message on 'TC Heartland' Venue Waivers" (featured quotes) The National Law Journal Thomas L. Duston
August 3, 2017 – Presentation "Protecting and Licensing Mobile Applications" Code for the Mission Lunch-N-Learn Seminar Andrew Bateman and Julie M. Watson
June 27, 2017 “Lessons From This Year's High Court IP Rulings: Part 1” (featured quotes) Law360 Thomas L. Duston
May 30, 2017 “SC Ruling Signals New Era for Software Patent Enforcement” (featured quotes) TechNewsWorld Thomas L. Duston
May 25, 2017 “Where to File Patent Complaints After High Court Venue Ruling?” (featured quotes) Bloomberg BNA Thomas L. Duston
May 23, 2017 “Supreme Court Upends Thirty Years of Patent Litigation, Declaring for Venue Purposes That Corporate Defendants ‘Reside’ Only Where Incorporated” Marshall Gerstein Alert Thomas L. Duston
May 22, 2017 “High Court Rocks 25 Years of Patent-Venue Precedent” (featured quotes) Courthouse News Service Thomas L. Duston
May 22, 2017 “Industry Reaction to SCOTUS Patent Venue Decision in TC Heartland v. Kraft Food Group” (featured quotes) IPWatchdog Thomas L. Duston
May 17, 2017 – Presentation “Fee Shifting in Patent Litigation” IP Defense Summit–Chicago Thomas L. Duston
May 10, 2017 – Presentation “Fee Shifting in Patent Litigation” IP Defense Summit–Boston Benjamin T. Horton
March 24, 2017 “Forum Shopping Case to be Heard Next Week” (featured quotes) IPPro Patents Benjamin T. Horton
March 22, 2017 “SCOTUS Laches Ruling Won't Have ‘Monumental’ Impact, Says Lawyers” (featured quotes) World Intellectual Property Review Thomas L. Duston
March 22, 2017 “Patent Owners Can Wait to Sue, Get Six Years Damages” (featured quotes) Bloomberg BNA Thomas L. Duston
March 22, 2017 “SCOTUS Weakens Laches as a Defence” (featured quotes) IPPro Patents Thomas L. Duston
March 21, 2017 “Justices’ Laches Decision Could Be Boon For Patent Owners” (featured quotes) Law360 Thomas L. Duston
March 15, 2017 – Presentation “Patent Cases to Watch in 2017” Intellectual Property Law Symposium Tiffany D. Gehrke
February 21, 2017 “Groupon Succeeds in Fed Circuit Patent Fight” (featured quotes) World Intellectual Property Review Thomas L. Duston
February 20, 2017 “Evolutionary Intelligence Patents Dismissed” (featured quotes) IPPro Patents Thomas Duston
February 17, 2017 “Apple, Tech Giants Win Data Patent Dispute At Fed. Circ.” (featured quotes) Law360 Thomas L. Duston
January 5, 2017 "En Banc Federal Circuit Time-Bar Case May Increase AIA Appeals" (featured quotes) Law360 Ryan N. Phelan
December 21, 2016 “Supreme Court Might End Texas’ Preferred Patent Venue Status, Attorneys Say” (featured quotes) Thomson Reuters Legal Solutions Blog Thomas Duston
December 16, 2016 “Forum shopping decision could reduce patent lawsuits” (featured quotes) IPPro The Internet Thomas Duston
December 15, 2016 “Justices Could Deal Blow To East Texas Patent Docket” (featured quotes) Law360 Thomas Duston
December 15, 2016 “TC Heartland Has Potential to ‘Shake-Up’ Patent Litigation” (featured quotes) Intellectual Property Magazine Thomas Duston
