What to do if you receive a restriction requirement responsive to your appeal brief.

AIPLA’s legislative “fix” to the Supreme Court’s Alice/Abstract idea approach.  

Sometime the right amendment approach is counter-intuitive.

Patent Office examiner data is being used by patent prosecutors, but will litigators take advantage?

Avoiding overly-broad interpretations of “user input” can be critical for successful prosecution at the USPTO.

When the Patent Office refuses to enter an amendment because the amendment might create a reason for restriction.  

Some ideas for reducing over-regulation at the US Patent and Trademark Office in the area of restriction requirements. 

Simon Tam, founding member of the All-Asian punk rock band, the Slants, gave a powerful speech about Trademarks and race at the Intellectual Property Year in Review CLE this past week in Oregon.* Simon intertwined the practical significance of Trademarks with how bureaucrats at the Trademark Office are making race-based decisions that disparately impact minority groups…

How to save RCE fees by properly petitioning untimely final rejections.

The Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB for an unreasonable interpretation of a “single” merchant being broad enough to refer to multiple merchants.