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Patents are both political and geopolitical tools for nation states But patent stakeholders, including individual inventors, companies, universities, agencies, Congress and the courts, are definitely not properly aligned on the highest and best use of patents to promote innovation.

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Kilpatrick Townsend recently held its semi-annual KTIPS (Kilpatrick Townsend Intellectual Property Seminar) in California. Firm attorneys led two days of interactive discussions with...

Patent owners in IPR proceedings should be mindful that filing a response may subject the patent owner to an affirmative burden and obligate them to follow applicable PTO rules and regulations lest it fails to carry that burden.

The Supreme Court's consideration of the standards for satisfying the enablement provisions of 35 U.S.C. 112(a) has been occasioned for the first time in over a century by the Court's...

How we know you "have' the invention

In a rare action by the Supreme Court of the United States, Chief Justice Roberts granted Novartis's emergency request for a stay of a mandate from the US Court of Appeals...

Just two days after the Federal Circuit denied a stay of its mandate in Novartis v. HEC Pharm Co., Ltd., the Supreme Court granted a stay of the mandate pending a further order...

A need for a negative claim limitation often does not arise until the application is undergoing prosecution. For example, an unexpected prior art publication may be cited that requires an element the invention does not.