This column highlights some of the more notable recent online notices, newsletters, and blogs dealing with IP prosecution issues. Patently-O – a patent law blog – Patentlyo.com Deferring Subject Matter Eligibility Rejection Responses – A January 9, 2022 post describes a new pilot program for the USPTO, the Deferred Subject Matter Eligibility Response (DSMER) Pilot [...]

This column highlights some of the more notable recent online notices, newsletters, and blogs dealing with IP prosecution issues. Patently-O – a patent law blog – Patentlyo.com Must Invention Conception be Immaculate? - On July 28, 2021, Prof. Dennis Crouch discussed the concerns relating to joint inventorship. He provides an overview as to how simultaneous [...]

This column highlights some of the more notable recent online notices, newsletters, and blogs dealing with IP prosecution issues. Patently-O – a patent law blog – Patentlyo.com Perjury Can Be Costly - On May 6, 2021, Prof. Dennis Crouch discussed Cap Export, LLC v. Zinus, Inc., slip opinion, 2020-2087, (Fed. Cir., May 5, 2021) (PDF [...]

This column highlights some of the more notable recent online notices, newsletters, and blogs dealing with IP prosecution issues. Patently-O – a patent law blog – Patentlyo.com On September 28, 2020, David Hricik discussed the USPTO’s proposal for voluntary CLE for patent practitioners. Instead of charging a fee and providing a discount for patent-related CLE [...]

Patently-O – a patent law blog – Patentlyo.com On August 12, 2020, Prof. Dennis Crouch discussed a claim construction case considering whether a preamble is limiting. One lesson from the case is that the body of the claim is more determinative than merely reviewing the text of the preamble. The issues also involved introducing elements [...]