PHOSITA is no Ordinary Person
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/phosita-ordinary-person.htmlby Dennis Crouch In this post, I use the Federal Circuit's recent decision in Sage Products, LLC v. Stewart, Appeal No. 23-1603 (Fed. Cir. April 15, 2025) to delve into the increasingly fictional con ...
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Method Claims can Cover an Entire Process Flow – Including All Conditional Branches
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/including-conditional-branches.htmlby Dennis Crouch Sierra Wireless, ULC v. Sisvel S.p.A., Nos. 2023-1059, 2023-1085, 2023-1089, 2023-1125 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 10, 2025). In this case, the Federal Circuit has vacated and remanded, holding ...
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Diamond Art Club Challenges USPTO’s Mass Termination of Chinese-Origin Applications in Federal Court
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/challenges-termination-applications.htmlby Dennis crouch In October 2024, the USPTO terminated proceedings in approximately 3,100 patent applications due to the fraudulent use of a U.S. practitioner’s signature. The bulk of the application ...
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Tax Victory for Generic Drug Companies | Federal Circuit Affirms ANDA Litigation Expenses are Deductible
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/companies-litigation-deductible.htmlby Dennis Crouch In a significant win for the generic pharmaceutical industry, the Federal Circuit recently affirmed that legal expenses incurred defending Hatch-Waxman patent litigation can be deduc ...
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Federal Circuit Denies Patent Agent Registration for Former USPTO Examiner Who Failed to Disclose Workplace Suspension
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/registration-workplace-suspension.htmlby Dennis Crouch I am teaching professional responsibility this semester and it is fascinating to read about all the different ways legal professionals can stumble on their own feet. In a recent nonp ...
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Challenging the Server Test for Image Embedding
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/challenging-server-embedding.htmlby Dennis Crouch McGucken v. Valnet, Inc., No. 24-1040 (Supreme Court 2025) Photographer Elliot McGucken has petitioned the Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision involving what has become ...
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The USPTO’s Innovation Double Standard | Which Diversity Initiatives Survive
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/entrepreneurship-symposium-continues.htmlby Dennis Crouch I sometimes have difficulty following doublethink. The recent implementation of the Republican Administration's executive orders on diversity initiatives has created a nuanced and se ...
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Non-Tariff Countermeasures to U.S. Tariff Hikes | IP, Services, and Investment Implications
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/countermeasures-investment-implications.htmlby Dennis Crouch In April 2025, President Trump took initiative to sharply increased tariffs on imports, citing trade imbalances and reciprocity. In response, major trading partners such as the Europ ...
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Silicon Valley Judicial Ties | The Cellspin Recusal Case
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/silicon-judicial-cellspin.htmlby Dennis Crouch Google has skipped its chance to respond to Cellspin's petition for writ of certiorari in a case raising questions about judicial recusal standards. In Cellspin Soft v. Fitbit, the p ...
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Patent Law Year in Review | Top-Nine Topics for 2025
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/patent-review-topics.htmlby Dennis Crouch I'm delivering a U.S. patent law year-in-review for the past year or so. Here are Nine of the topics that deserve some focus. The New USPTO under President Trump: The greatest ongoi ...
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USPTO call for comments | Impact of AI on patentability
https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/05/uspto-call-for-evidence-impact-of-ai-on.htmlThe USPTO has issued a request for comments regarding the impact of AI on patentability. The USPTO specifically calls for views on how the proliferation of AI could affect evaluations of patentability ...
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Patent Issuance Timeline Accelerated
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/issuance-timeline-accelerated.htmlby Dennis Crouch The USPTO is shrinking the typical timeline from issuance to he USPTO has announced a significant improvement to their patent issuance process that will benefit inventors and patent ...
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Judge Shopping vs. Judge Dodging | Federal Circuit Denies SAP’s Transfer Request
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/shopping-dodging-transfer.htmlby Dennis Crouch In a precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit has denied SAP's mandamus petition seeking to transfer its patent infringement case from the Marshall Division to the Sherman Division ...
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Seymour’s Shadow | Reviving the Supreme Court’s Standard for Prior Art Enablement
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/seymours-reviving-enablement.htmlby Dennis Crouch Pending Supreme Court petition in Converter Manufacturing v. Tekni-Plex (No. 24-866), focuses on the question of who bears the burden of proving whether prior art references enable t ...
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Federal Circuit affirms Obviousness based upon General Knowledge of PHOSITA
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2020/01/federal-obviousness-knowledge.htmlby Dennis Crouch Philips v. Google & Microsoft (Fed. Cir. 2020) Google & Microsoft teamed-up to challenge Phillips’ U.S. Patent 7,529,806 in an inter partes review (IPR). The Board complied ...
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Convergence | Island IP Points to Wave of Rule 36 Petitions
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/convergence-island-petitions.htmlby Dennis Crouch Island Intellectual Property has filed a rare supplemental brief in its pending Supreme Court case, drawing the Court's attention to the growing body of certiorari petitions challeng ...
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Bane and Antidote | Copyright Statute of Limitations
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/antidote-copyright-limitations.htmlby Dennis Crouch Statutes of limitations occupy a peculiar position in our legal system | both shield and sword. While they play a vital role in promoting social stability by preventing stale claims ...
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USPTO Withdraws Biden Era AI Strategy
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/withdraws-strategy-policy.htmlThe USPTO has withdrawn its artificial intelligence strategy document published in January 2025, just days before the presidential transition. Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart recently indicated th ...
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When Five Years of Use Isn’t Enough | The High Bar for Highly Descriptive Marks
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/enough-highly-descriptive.htmlby Dennis Crouch Federal Circuit has affirmed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's (TTAB) finding that "iVoterGuide" and "iVoterGuide.com" are highly descriptive terms that failed to acquire distin ...
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Narrowly Broad | The Federal Circuit’s Improper Expansion of Unreviewable Agency Discretion
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/expansion-unreviewable-discretion.htmlby Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit's short precedential decision in Realtek v. ITC & DivX addresses ITC sanctions proceedings. The alleged bad act here involves patentee DivX who arguably alter ...
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IP as an Antitrust Exception | SCOTUS Denies Review in $1.6B BMC-IBM Dispute
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/antitrust-exception-dispute.htmlThe Supreme Court has denied BMC Software's petition for writ of certiorari -- formalizing the Fifth Circuit decision that nullified a $ 6 billion judgment against IBM. The appellate court had overtur ...
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Descriptive or Highly Descriptive? The Federal Circuit Reviews the iVoters vs iVoterGuide Trademark Dispute
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/descriptive-ivoterguide-trademark.htmlby Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit is currently reviewing a trademark opposition dispute, Heritage Alliance & AFA Action, Inc. v. The American Policy Roundtable (Appeal No. 24-1155), centered a ...
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Ninth Circuit Rejects Patent Misuse Defense in Minimum Royalty Dispute, Setting Up Potential Supreme Court Review
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/circuit-rejects-potential.htmlby Dennis Crouch The vast majority of patent appeals are heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Such cases typically include at least one claim or compulsory counterclaim "arisin ...
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Federal Circuit on Trade Secret Remedies in AMS-OSRAM v. Renesas
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/federal-circuit-remedies.htmlby Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit issued a significant trade secret remedies decision AMS-OSRAM USA Inc. v. Renesas Electronics America, Inc., Nos. 2022-2185, 2022-2186 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 4, 2025). T ...
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PTAB Bar Association Advocates for Stability Amid USPTO Turmoil
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/association-advocates-stability.htmlby Dennis Crouch The PTAB Bar Association has issued an urgent plea to Congressional leaders and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick advocating for stability at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board amid s ...
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An Expert of Ordinary Skill
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2022/08/expert-ordinary-skill.htmlby Dennis Crouch Patent cases regularly involve expert testimony about the how a “person having ordinary skill in the art” (PHOSITA) might think. PHOSITA is the objective ‘reasonable person’ that ser ...