In my technical areas of electronics and software, I’ve often heard in-house counsel say it isn’t worth the cost of doing patentability searches. They are trying for a large volume of patents, and it ...

As I described in the first two parts of this series, there are a number of ways in which the “on sale” bar can cost the unwitting inventor dearly. Hence, lastly, I would like to highlight some of the ...

Patent applicants may be unfairly prevented from obtaining commercially valuable protection for a product, particularly during the patent procurement phase, due to recent trends in the application of ...

The main market opportunities include equipping patent professionals with essential skills for effective patent searching, meeting the need for expertise in navigating US and European practices, and ...

It is impossible to give a precise definition of what constitutes a patentable invention, since the answer depends upon many factors. The final determination of patentability is made by the Patent ...

Given the lower standards for adjudicating patentability at the USPTO than for adjudicating validity in court, and given that the USPTO will institute an IPR only once it has determined that the ...

John Duffy is the Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law. Although Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank was identified by this website and many other commentators as a major ...

Two sections of the Patent Act are acknowledged as the significant gates to patentability in the United States. Among those, § 102 is a barrier against an invention that lacks novelty, and § 103 ...

Stringent patentability requirements present a challenge to obtaining broad-based antibody claims, so companies should develop a strategy based on multiple reinforcing layers of protection. Rapid ...