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Natalie Caine joined Mayo Clinic in 2005 as an administrative fellow.

I. Introduction Property rights are the foundation for flourishing societies and economic growth.REF This is equally true for patents, which are property rights in new and useful inventions.

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) finding that claims to a computer system for identifying eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance...

As promised in our earlier post (see "Professor Sarnoff Provides His Perspective on Tillis Bill"), here we turn to Professor Joshua Sarnoff's thoughts on the portions of Senator Thom...

Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina has released a new proposal to reform the text of 35 U.S.C. § 101.  The Senator's last effort in doing so died on the vine in 2019,...

Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (at right) released a blog post on the USPTO's Director's Blog on...

US Patent & Trademark Office issued a report to Congress. The report found that supporters of the current state of the law on eligibility tended to be companies faced with abusive and costly litigation involving overbroad patents, mostly related to software.

On June 24, 2022, the US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) issued a report to Congress titled “Patent Eligible Subject Matter: Public Views on the Current Jurisprudence in the United...

With the Supreme Court’s October 2021 Term winding down, we thought we’d check in on the cases from the Federal Circuit where the Supreme Court called for the views of the Solicitor...

With the Supreme Court's October 2021 Term winding down, we thought we'd check in on the cases from the Federal Circuit where the Supreme Court called for the views of the Solicitor General on whether to grant review (often called CVSGs).