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Student-athletes can now profit from their own name, image, and likeness thanks to NCAA rules changes.

The title of the invention is not required to be part of a US patent specification. A patent practitioner may supply a title on the specification as a heading on the first page of the specification.

For a U.S. patent application, an abstract may not exceed 150 words in length.

In connection with his latest presentation at the recent INTA Annual Meeting, Ted Davis offered his "Annual Review of U.S. Federal Case Law and TTAB Developments."

US patent maintenance fees are only required for maintaining an original or reissue patent, except for a design or plant patent.

O'Malley, J. Affirming district court decision compelling arbitration and dismissing declaratory judgment action without prejudice. The parties' technology license agreement included an arbitration...

The next quarterly meeting of the USPTO's Patent Public Advisory Committee is November 18, 2021, directed to a review of policies, performance, budget, and user fees. A link to the agenda can be found here.

On October 26, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Kathi Vidal, the managing partner of Winston and Strawn's Silicon Valley office, as the next Under Secretary for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO.

The International Bureau has a summary of filing restrictions for reasons of national security in the following PCT Contracting States...

In Mobility Workx, LLC v. Unified Patents, LLC, the Federal Circuit in a split decision concluded that Mobility Workx, LLC's constitutional challenges to structure and funding of the Patent Trial...