by Paul Raya | Jul 18, 2018 | Blog, Cook Alex, Federal Patent Law, Patent Law
Linda Chan, Paralegal Recent decisions by the Federal Circuit have ruled that obviousness under 35 USC 103 can be based upon a single prior art reference. While anticipation rejections under 35 USC 102 have always been able to rely a single prior art reference that,...
by Paul Raya | Jul 6, 2018 | Blog, Cook Alex, Federal Patent Law
The Federal Circuit’s Berkheimer v. HP decision has brought the patent eligibility statute, 35 U.S.C. § 101, back into the headlines. In October 2016, Ryan Truesdale wrote on this blog that “the statute addresses the basic question of ‘is this invention the type that...
by Paul Raya | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog, Federal Patent Law, Inter Partes Review
The question many in the patent field are asking is how the recent passing of Justice Antonin Scalia may change the patent landscape. The short term answer is probably not a lot. The long term answer depends on who is eventually appointed to the Court. During his...
by Paul Raya | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog, Federal Patent Law, Intellectual Property
For those of you following this blog, you will be familiar with our assessment of the recent decisions from the Supreme court in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories and Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International. These cases concerned what types of...
by Paul Raya | Feb 16, 2013 | Federal Patent Law, First-to-File
The new America Invents Act (AIA) was signed into law in September 2011. The longstanding “first-to-invent” patent system will soon be replaced by a new, “first-inventor-to-file” system for patent applications filed after March 15, 2013. Technology developers and...
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