Cole Haan fights hard on a patent application for a pre-loaded spring feature and overcomes inherency arguments by the USPTO.

Learn how to avoid and overcome rejections based on the idea that the only difference from the prior art is a relative dimension.

Patent quality assurance specialists - who is reviewing the reviewers?

An examiner cannot generally get away with citing the same teaching in the prior art for two separate claim elements of the same claim. See an example from Honda in this post.

See an example of how PTAB judges think through the analogous art test.

Netflix tries to argue against disclosure by happenstance for their fixed time preview license.

A recent Federal Circuit case on negative limitations provides some ammunition for applicants having trouble with written description rejections at the USPTO, especially when citing MPEP § 2173.05.

WRC’s patent application overcomes an examiner ignoring “configured to” limitations and redrafting claim elements to suit the rejection.

When you paraphrase claim elements in arguments, any perceived narrowing can open the door to the USPTO ignoring the your point.

The USPTO proposes electronic issuance of patents.

Read about how examiners use specification language against the applicant to turn alternatives into equivalents.

An application on a great new way to delivery easy and ready to use dough is found unpatentable because of a broad interpretation of “impact mixing.”

Make sure you know how to spot this common examiner tactic

Sometimes being too close to your drafting can lead to undesirable claim interpretations under BRI.

Know to how to push back against an examiner relying on an erroneous machine translation.

See how to recognize the difference between improper hindsight and "hindsight that is acceptable at the USPTO. Arguing improper hindsight when you do not have the right facts makes for an easy affirmance by the PTAB>

It is important to not only understand the technical advantages and improvements offered by an invention, but also to consider how claim terms may be interpreted (overly) broadly by the USPTO. Extra description at various levels of abstraction can create amendment opportunities that can help when unexpected interpretations and/or prior art are applied by the examiner.

The many benefits of signaling diagrams in your patent application.

Fox News confronts the Printed Matter Doctrine

If there is a chance your priority US application is heading to the EPO, it is good practice to consider the crazy idea of using multiple dependent claims in (the detailed description ) of your US application.