Inventions related to customizing products is not precluded under Section 101 and Alice.

How to petition improper election of species requirements.

When a PTAB affirmance is actually a reversal.

As discussed in previous posts, when an applicant believes that there are errors made by an examiner, different approaches are taken to obtain review depending on the issue. Some issues are appealable, and some are petionable. Generally, these two avenues are mutually exclusive. There are some common examples where applicants take the wrong avenue for…

The Office must have evidence to establish equivalence.

Even when an applicant does everything they should, sometimes the only reasonable option is an appeal to the PTAB.

Using the principles of consonance can help applicants overcome restrictions in the first place.

A new informative decision on 101 from the PTAB (with a dissent).

Should you cite examiner statistics to the examiner?

Obviousness and evidence for and against motivation to combine.