The New Section 101 Guidelines help hand a win on an one-click internet search invention. Move over Amazon…

Tropicana finally wins a reversal after three appeal briefs.

Learn how to attack a rejection based on optimization.

Can the Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Ignore Claimed Functions?

The PTAB confirms in a Honda appeal that system diagnostic inventions do not need to perform an action in response to the diagnostic determination to be patent eligible.

Sometimes applicants are right on the substance but miss the actual reasoning of the rejection and give the PTAB an easy affirmance.

We touch on some of the common issues in enablement rejections, and how to attack insufficient rejections, particularly with regard to the Wands factors.

As we have discussed previously, some cases can be very difficult to prosecute because of the assigned examiner. Today, patent practitioners can have a good window into the situation well in advance through the use of examiner statistics, but those do nothing to change the situation in and of themselves. So what about getting the…

A splatter guard that is allegedly “obvious to try” does not seem so obvious when one breaks down the examiner’s improper logic.

Examiner interviews are not just all about the interview.