How to avoid waiver in ex parte Appeals at the PTAB.

IBM has a difficult time convincing the PTAB that its invention related to power management on cloud server hosts running virtual machines on behalf of customer is not abstract.

Halloween costume prior art used by an Examiner rejected by the PTAB.

The distinction between a structural element and a product-by-process element can be fine.

If the Examiner continues to apply the wrong restriction standard in a PCT National Phase application, you may be able to overcome the restriction with a straightforward petition.

Be careful in petitioning so as not to win a battle only to lose the war.

Apple knows how to petition improper restrictions that fail to provide any reasoning supporting a search burden

SAP saves their database data field retrieval patent with “only” in the claim.

On appeal, the PTAB dismisses GM’s reasoning against an Examiner’s rejection as “mere attorney argument.”

The ideal technology transfer agreement looks much different now with the PTAB and State-owned University sovereign immunity defenses.