June 21, 2021. In the case U.S. v. Arthrex et al., No. 19-1434, the U.S. Supreme Court splintered over the question of whether USPTO administrative law judges, when issuing a patent validity decision that by statute could not be reviewed by the Director of the...
August 27, 2020. Moderna, the Bio-tech firm famous for its progress on a COVID-19 vaccine, is reported to have never made the required disclosure of its US Government DARPA funding on its 157 patents and patent applications over aspects of its mRNA platform. Under typical...
April 15, 2020. Under the authority Subsection 12004(a) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act enacted on March 27, 2020 the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has extended certain deadlines to file trademark and patent documents and fees. Where some specific...
Expect a surge of computer-related patents to issue due to relaxation of the prior standard for patentability. Jan. 7, 2019. In a significant development, USPTO has issued new guidelines for examining patent claims over computer process related inventions. The USPTO recognized that prior examination practice...
