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Calendar Post a Premium Event Jobs Submit a Job Post Job Openings Press Releases Submit Press Release Clause 8 Podcast Webinars Sponsor a Webinar with IPWatchdog Programs Introduction to Patent Prosecution Patent Masters™ Symposium Patent Masters™ Faculty Podcasts CON2020 Complete Agenda Confirmed Speakers Current Sponsors & Exhibitors Exhibitor Space Networking Opportunities Registration Sponsorship Opportunities Subscribe to our Blog via email -- Last 24 Hours Congress Asks Amazon’s Bezos to Testify on Use of Third-Party Seller Data On May 1, Representative and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and a bipartisan coalition of members of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law signed … By Steve Brachmann 4 hours ago 0 Conservative Leaders Rebut Proposed Denial of Exclusivity on COVID Meds More than 30 leading conservative and libertarian organizations have joined on a letter to Congress, voicing “strong opposition” to principles, recently unveiled by four senior lawmakers, that would … By James Edwards 8 hours ago 0 Federal Circuit Reverses PTAB’s Non-Obviousness Ruling in View of Prior Art On May 5, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) reversed a decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial … By Rebecca Tapscott 13 hours ago 1 More Recent Posts Popular: Recent News Popular: Guest Posts Popular: Inventors ‘A Life Well Lived’: Remembering Q. Todd Dickinson In the midst of so much daily sadness around the global pandemic, 2020 dealt us another blow when we learned this week that our friend and giant of … By IPWatchdog 1 day ago 1 PTAB Judges Should Call Balls and Strikes, Not Throw Curve Balls The America Invents Act (AIA) outlines an adversarial, inter partes, process for reviewing patents and determining their validity. Patent owners deserve a fair process, presided over by … By Timothy Maloney & David Gosse 1 day ago 3 Patent Filings Roundup: Blackberry Accused of Abuse, PayPal Isn’t Playing, WSOU Earns Its Frequent Filer Card This week, Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) filings are back up, with four post grant reviews (PGRs) and 37 inter partes reviews (IPRs), while there were 83 district … By Jonathan Stroud 2 days ago 0 Senator Thom Tillis: If IP Stakeholders Can’t Find Consensus, Congress Can’t Help Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) arguably has more pressing issues to focus on than intellectual property at the moment, as the nation scrambles to find solutions to the … By Gene Quinn 2 days ago 18 Booking.com Oral Arguments: Will Justices’ Skepticism of USPTO Arguments Trump Monopoly Concerns? The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al., v. Booking.com B.V., (Case No. 19-46) yesterday, in … By Rebecca Tapscott 2 days ago 0 Clause 8, Episode 17: Frank Jakes – Legendary Trial Attorney This episode features an interview with trial attorney Frank Jakes - the founder of the Intellectual Property Group at the firm of Johnson Pope in Tampa, FL. … By Eli Mazour 2 days ago 0 This Week in Washington IP: Developing COVID-19 Tests, China’s Global Tech Dominance and GPS Spectrum Concerns This week in Washington, D.C., while the nation continues to deal with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, some Senate committee hearings on the Federal Communications … By IPWatchdog 3 days ago 0 In Memoriam: Q. Todd Dickinson It is with tremendous sadness that I write today to say that Q. Todd Dickinson passed away on Sunday, May 3, 2020. As I choke back tears, staring at … By Gene Quinn & Renee C. Quinn 3 days ago 24 USPTO Shoots Down DABUS’ Bid For Inventorship Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a decision refusing to vacate a Notice of Missing Parts in U.S. Patent Application No.: 16/524,350 (… By Rebecca Tapscott 3 days ago 22 PTAB Establishes Two-Part Framework for Denying Institution of IPRs Based on Previously Presented Art Or Argument Earlier this year, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) established a two-part framework for applying 35 U.S.C. § 325(d), under which the PTAB may deny institution … By Christopher Loh 3 days ago 3 USTR Special 301 Report and Review of Notorious Markets Highlight Continued Concerns with China On April 29, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released its 2020 Special 301 Report on Intellectual Property Protection and its 2019 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting … By Rebecca Tapscott 4 days ago 4 Innovation Versus Information: How the Shifting Definition of ‘News’ and a Media-Shy IP Community are Driving the Anti-Patent Narrative When did it become necessary to triangulate the news in order to figure out what was really happening in the world? Many media outlets have significantly slowed … By Gene Quinn 4 days ago 6 Federal Circuit Holds Banks to Be ‘Persons’ Under the America Invents Act Recently, the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, holding that the Board correctly determined that the claims 21–24 of U.S. Patent … By Dustin Weeks & Robert Schaffer & Joseph Robinson & Brandon Reed 5 d...