The Federal Circuit hears seven patent appeals on Monday, November 2, before two panels sitting at 10 a.m. The full lineup is on the Federal Circuit argument calendar - a tool I am testing in alpha.

Eight en banc petitions are pending at the Federal Circuit, though two are pro se. The court makes pretty quick work of petitions and so the list has turned over almost completely since my July post.

I’m excited to announce my new book – Building the Internet We Want: Law for a Connected World, which is now available via Amazon (Hardcover $29 or Kindle $13)! Internet law has changed so quickly ...

The wait for a first action on the merits (FAOM) has eased a bit over the past year, but the numbers are still about seven months over target. Most recently, the average application waited about 21 ...

I have been looking at patent applications that appear to be lost within the USPTO digital files. A common pattern is abandonment, followed by revival on petition, but then the file is apparently ...

In my post on Monday, I created a time series chart showing the average/median wait time for utility patent applications from filing to the first action on the merits. But, that office-wide average ...

Range of Motion's cert petition, due Dec. 21, will challenge the plainly dissimilar test and judicial functionality findings for design patents.

The USPTO has quietly rolled out substantial changes to its examiner Performance Appraisal Plan (PAP) for FY2026. PAP is the formal framework the USPTO uses to measure, evaluate, and rate patent ...

Our guest author today is a very bright high school student, Kavya Gundlapalli, who is considering a career in law. – DC Guest Post by Kavya Gundlapalli* As America heads toward the 2024 presidential ...

I started pulling at a loose bristle this week and ended up doing a deep dive into the history of the American toothbrush. I came across a Library of Congress explanation that H.N. Wadsworth of ...

I have been parsing ex parte PTAB decisions - about 130 k for this post running from 2009 through September 2026 - looking particularly at the eligibility cases. The short version: eligibility is ...

FedEx has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether any court can make the Patent Office follow 35 U.S.C. § 312(a)(2), the requirement that an IPR petitioner identify “all real parties in interest.” ...