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PTAB Masters Panelists Urge Patent Community to Stay Focused on What We Can Control
The first day of IPWatchdog’s PTAB Masters 2025 wrapped up with a session in which three IP luminaries weighed in on the ...
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Federal Circuit Confirms PTAB’s Jurisdiction Over Expired Patents
The Federal Circuit handed Apple a win when it confirmed today in a precedential opinion that the U.S. Patent and Trademark ...
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Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB Decisions for Intel Based on Qualcomm Prosecution History
The U.S. court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday, January 24, affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s ...
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Five Questions the New Commerce Secretary Should Ask When Vetting a USPTO Director
Dear Howard Lutnick [the Trump Nominee for Commerce Secretary]: I understand you are now interviewing candidates for the job ...
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CAFC Declines to Declare RDOE Subsumed by 1952 Patent Act Despite ‘Compelling’ Arguments
On January 25, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision in Steuben Foods, Inc.
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Trump Hiring Freeze Leaves USPTO Backlog Attack Plan in Limbo
Donald Trump’s many executive actions on day one of his presidency included implementing a hiring freeze across the federal ...
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U.S. Tax Policy Needs to Stop Incentivizing R&D Investment Abroad
Many articles in this forum and others have set forth lofty IP goals for the incoming Trump administration. But there is one ...
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UK Court Says Aldi’s Lookalike Packaging Amounts to Unfair Advantage
On January 20, the United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal issued a ruling in Thatchers Cider Co. Ltd. v. Aldi Stores Ltd. expected to have major impacts on the availability of lookalike products in British ...
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Patent Data Reports Show China’s Continued Gains, Rapid Advances in Sustainability
Last week, patent data tracking firm IFI CLAIMS published its annual rankings of the Top 50 U.S. Patent Assignees and the Top ...