AIA has overstepped its boundaries on constitutional grounds as patents are private rights. All patent owners are entitled to ...

Blind AI readers forecast four pending Federal Circuit appeals, including Samsung v. ITC and Taylor Made v. Costco, after a ...

In December 2025, Director Squires invited applicants to begin filing special Rule 132 declarations focused on patent eligibility. He called these Subject Matter Eligibility Declarations, or SMEDs.

I started pulling at a loose bristle this week and ended up doing a deep dive into the history of the American toothbrush. I came across a Library of Congress explanation that H.N. Wadsworth of ...

USPTO and IU Maurer announce a Spring 2027 PTAB Law School Moot Court Competition: one brief, APJ panels, and an in-person final in Alexandria.

Back in May 2026, I wrote that Williamson found its mark. After the Federal Circuit’s 2015 en banc decision, functional claims that rely upon a function coupled with a generic noun such as “module” or ...

The Federal Circuit has affirmed the PTAB’s cancellation of all six claims of Zentian’s speech-recognition patent in a short ...

Best Practices: With the compressed issuance timeline, a growing number of patent practitioners are moving to a standard ...

This post updates my September 21, 2026 post on FY2026 utility grants that was projecting out to end of the FY. The year is now over. I have also added two new cuts of the data: published applications ...

The Justices return for their long conference on Monday, September 28, and the patent side of the docket is as full as it has been in some time. By my count, thirteen docketed cert petitions arise ...

A fundamental aspect of the U.S. patent system is its lack of moral judgment. I am doing research for a separate project that involves reading a large number of old documents. Today I came across an ...

Since Congress created the Federal Circuit in 1982, the court has repeatedly expanded the class of cases that, in its view, “arise under” patent law and so fall within its exclusive jurisdiction. The ...