You may have heard that it is inappropriate to read into a patent claim from the specification. That isn’t entirely accurate, although you will hear that popular misconception often repeated even by ...

The European Parliament (EP) has enlisted the help of intellectual property lawyers to amend the directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions so that companies are prevented from ...

With the European Commission heading towards a second reading of its patent legislation, there's still more heat than light in discussions on the subject. The UK Patent Office (UKPO) has of late been ...

It is common in patent cases for the patentee to ascribe “plain and ordinary” meaning to terms in a patent claim, while the defendant often seeks a narrower construction. But what if the parties agree ...

On January 23, 2019, the Federal Circuit decided Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. vs. Iancu and shed light on Patent Term Adjustment (PTA). PTA was established by the American Inventors Protection Act ...

The meaning of “protected by a basic patent” has been clarified in Teva v Gilead, in a return to familiar ground The Court of Justice of the EU today clarified when a product is protected by a basic ...

Wasica Fin. GmbH v. Cont’l Auto. Sys., (Fed. Cir. Apr. 4, 2017) (Before Prost, C.J., Schall, and Chen, J.) (Opinion for the court, Schall, J.) In an April 4, 2017 ...

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A federal judge in Texas erred in dismissing an advertising-technology patent suit against Meta Platforms Inc. while the ...

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