News & InsightsIP News AlertsNew USPTO Fees Based on Number of Items Filed with an Information Disclosure Statement (IDS)January 29, 2025 Effective January 19, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has imposed an information disclosure statement (IDS) size fee based on the cumulative number of items cited... USPTO to Terminate the After Final Consideration Pilot Program 2.0October 3, 2024 By: Alice O. Carroll The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will terminate the After Final Consideration Pilot Program 2.0 (AFCP 2.0) on December 15, 2024. Due to fiscal reasons and... Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds Trademark Win at the TTAB Iron Balls International Ltd. v. Bull Creek Brewing, LLCBy: John L. DuPré and Daniel A. Fleisher Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds secured a significant trademark win for client Bull Creek Brewing New Test for Obviousness of Design Patents Presents Uncertainties and OpportunitiesJune 10, 2024 By: Darrell L. Wong and Keith J. Wood Design rights are becoming increasingly valuable for companies in today’s world, covering everything from the shapes of our mobile phones to the designs of consumer products... Updated Guidelines for AI InventionsMay 20, 2024 By: Michael R. McGurk and Rae Zhang,, Ph.D. On March 1, 2024, updated Guidelines for examining AI inventions at the European Patent Office (EPO) came into effect. These updated guidelines can be found in the official “... USPTO Guidance on AI-assisted Inventing: A Natural Person Is An Inventor If They Provided A Significant ContributionFebruary 22, 2024 By: Philip T. Mazoki The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published guidance on whether a natural person may be an inventor of an AI-assisted invention. This guidance from... United States Patent and Trademark Office Releases New Guidelines for Assessing Enablement in View of Amgen v. SanofiFebruary 12, 2024 By: Deirdre E. Sanders and Kelly Brewer, , Ph.D. Best practices continue to include providing enabling disclosure reasonable for claim scope, including disclosure of structural characteristics common to all claimed embodiments of... In re Cellect: Is Your Patent Portfolio Vulnerable to Double Patenting Challenges?November 13, 2023 By: Alice O. Carroll For the first time, the Federal Circuit in the case of In re: Cellect, LLC (Case No. 22-1293, decided August 28, 2023) addressed how Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) interacts with obviousness... United States Patent and Trademark Office: Expansion and Extension of the Climate Change Mitigation Pilot ProgramJune 13, 2023 By: Alice O. Carroll As of June 6, 2023, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) expanded the scope of the Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program, initially implemented on June 3, 2022,... Supreme Court Clarifies Enablement Standard, Finds Amgen’s Antibody Genus Claims InvalidMay 22, 2023 By: Deirdre E. Sanders and Bin Wang,, Ph.D. The Supreme Court of the United States has issued its ruling in Amgen v. Sanofi, affirming the Federal Circuit’s conclusion that Amgen failed “to enable any person skilled... Long-Anticipated Supreme Court Ruling in Warhol Copyright Case UnderwhelmsMay 19, 2023 Andy Warhol, even posthumously, has a talent for attracting attention. That was true for the copyright litigation by the Andy Warhol Foundation (“AWF”) against the photographer... Artificial Intelligence: The USPTO Seeks Comments on InventorshipMay 3, 2023 In June 2022, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) formed the Artificial Intelligence/Emerging Technologies (AI/ET) partnership, which seeks to bring together stakeholders... |
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