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Exhibit A could be Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Senator J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) Invent It Here, Make It Here” bill. Despite the name and its good intentions, it condemns promising federally funded inventions to waste away without doing a thing to build our domestic manufacturing base. It’s scheduled to be considered this Thursday in the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Joseph Allen 18 minutes ago 0 Recent Popular Potential Shifts in Section 337 Precedent: What The Data Tells Us The U.S. International Trade Commission (the Commission”) is typically made up of six individual commissioners, but after Commissioner Randolph Stayin’s unexpected return to private practice last year, there are now just four. As a result, upcoming changes to the make-up of the Commission may cause a shift in the Commission’s positions on various legal issues. What happens next is anyone’s guess, but a careful analysis of Commission opinions can help unearth possible future changes in precedent. Brian Johnson & Ramya Auroprem & Ian Swan & Don Z. Wang 4 hours ago 0 Shifting Strategies: Building a Strong Patent Portfolio in an Erratic U.S. Patent System Finding an appropriate patent strategy is simple. Start with a well-funded and dedicated research and development team who sees their job as not only inventing but also working side-by-side with patent attorneys to protect the intangible assets they create for the betterment and advancement of the company. Instruct the patent attorneys representing the company to spend the time necessary to describe and claim the invention to meet the standards of today and the moving target that is the unknowable standards of tomorrow. Pay millions and millions of dollars in patent office fees in the United States and around the world. Then, sit back and watch success roll in like waves washing over the sand at high tide. Gene Quinn 9 hours ago 1 Back When the Supreme Court Got It Right On IP: Kewanee , 50 Years Later When May rolls around, lots of people – well, trade secret people that is – think about the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA), which for the first time in U.S. history granted original jurisdiction in federal courts for civil claims of misappropriation. The DTSA was signed into law on May 11, 2016, so it’s now eight years old. And performing pretty much as Congress intended. But this year there’s a far more consequential anniversary to celebrate. May 13 marks 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 1974 opinion in Kewanee v. Bicron. I remember that time very well. Barely a year out of law school, I was still learning the ropes of legal practice. While walking down the hall I saw something very unusual: the senior partner sitting at his desk reading one of the advance sheets.” James Pooley May 12, 2024, 12:15 PM 4 The USPTO Needs to Investigate This Disturbing ‘Patent Examiner’ Reddit Thread If you have done a search for just about anything using Google, you have no doubt at one time or another stumbled across Reddit, the self-described home to thousands of communities, endless conversation, and authentic human connection.” Regardless of what you are interested in, there is a community and conversation to be found on Reddit. For those familiar with Reddit and the breadth of topics covered it probably comes as no real surprise that there is a patent examiner Reddit, which has some 4,800 users. What should be surprising—shocking even—is what was recently discussed in one quickly deleted thread within that patent examiner Reddit. Gene Quinn May 9, 2024, 04:15 PM 32 USPTO Issues Updated Obviousness Guidance Tracing 15 Years of Case Law Following KSR On February 27, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a notice in the Federal Register providing updated guidance for agency decision-makers on making proper determinations of obviousness under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2007 ruling in KSR International Co. V. Teleflex Inc. While the USPTO’s examiner guidance doesn’t constitute substantive rulemaking, it traces 15 years of case law from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to clarify several areas of confusion stemming from the Supreme Court’s calls for a flexible approach to the obviousness analysis for patent validity. Steve Brachmann February 28, 2024, 03:20 PM 18 Supreme Court Denies Five IP Petitions on Issues from IPR Joinder to Contributory Trademark Infringement On February 20, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order list that denied petitions for writ of certiorari filed in at least five intellectual property cases. While none of these cases induced large numbers of amici to ask the Court to grant cert, they do represent several current issues in IP law that remain unaddressed. From the use of joinder to evade time-bar limits in patent validity proceedings to the service of process required for a grant of preliminary injunction, the Court’s cert denials leave several open questions with which the patent and trademark community will likely grapple. Steve Brachmann February 20, 2024, 05:15 PM 3 Other Barks and Bites for Friday, May 10: Bipartisan Congress Members Call for GAO Study on March-In Proposal; USPTO Warns Trademark Applicants of Data Leak; Supreme Court Rejects Time Limit on Copyright Damages This week in Other Barks and Bites: Members of Congress ask the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study into the impact of President Biden’s proposed framework for exercising march-in rights under the Bayh-Dole Act; the U.S. Supreme Court rules there is...