Supreme Court patent docket swells with 13 petitions, two more pending, and major fights over IPR review, eligibility, damages, and claim scope.

The Federal Circuit has vacated a PTAB obviousness rejection of a catheter claim, holding that the Board's reading of the claim term "flow barrier" was unreasonably broad. In re Incept LLC, No.

Apple has asked the Supreme Court to review the Federal Circuit's decision upholding the ITC's import ban on Apple Watches with blood-oxygen sensing. Apple Inc. v. ITC, No. 26-316 (petition filed Sept ...

The "optimization" claims of US8842761 and US10693700 are ineligible under § 101; The "constellation" claims of US11019509 and US11018922 are eligible; The infringement verdict stands (denial of JMOL ...

Professor John Duffy (UVA) appears to be in line to take over as USPTO General Counsel. GC is the Director's principal legal advisor and runs an office of about 130 lawyers that include the Office of ...

China now receives more US patents than Japan. The crossover happened in 2024, and the projection for 2026 puts China around 58k compared with Japan's 45k. But, this total does hide a big exception.

USPTO's fee setting authority is set to expire on September 16, 2026. The Senate passed a continuing resolution for a short extension - to December 11, 2026 (after the mid-term election). Congress ...

This is the third post in a series digging into office action rejections. As its name implies, a rejection from an examiner includes a finding that at least some claims are unpatentable. But, many ...

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet held its hearing on renewal of USPTO fee setting authority on September 2, 2026, one day ...

Randy Micheletti of Incubate IP in Illinois sent over information about a fraud now circulating among patent attorneys. On August 23 a man presenting himself as Steven Gunst, Managing Director of the ...

This is the fourth post about VDPP, LLC v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., No. 2024-2226 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 19, 2026): that is a lot for this little case. The earlier ones covered Judge Rosenthal's ...

§ 11.101 (competence), § 11.103 (diligence), § 11.804(c) (misrepresentation), and § 11.804(d) (conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice). Mitchell ran his second AI tool as the reviewer, ...