Opinion: The US Patent and Trademark Office's reexamination of one of Nintendo's patents without a third-party petition sends ...

For a business planning to market a product that incorporates an invention, having an enforceable patent to protect the invention is often desirable. Two recent federal circuit cases reiterate what ...

While tort and liability issues are at the forefront of people's minds, questions also will need to be answered as to how AI impacts intellectual property rights. Artificial intelligence and machine ...

Spanning damages, design patents, infringement loopholes, issue preclusion, and prior art disqualification, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had an active year issuing cases with a ...

New USPTO rules confirm that AI can support the invention process, but only humans can legally claim inventorship under U.S.

The “right to useful inventions … belong[s] to the inventors.” James Madison articulated this core principle in the Federalist Papers and embedded it into our Constitution more than two centuries ago.

The USPTO and the U.S. Department of Justice filed a joint public interest comment with the International Trade Commission on Tuesday, arguing that the strong enforcement of valid patent rights best ...

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On November 20, 2025, the DC District court issued its opinion [1] in a lawsuit where Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. challenged the validity of ...

In a dramatic change to Australian patent law, Australia's Full Federal Court has just held that patents for pharmaceutical formulations are not eligible for patent term extensions ( PTE ): Otsuka ...

In the light of recent IP initiatives in Japan, Ruth Taplin examines how changing attitudes among inventors and businesses are leading to new approaches to patent valuation Japan is inventing its way ...