New: Censorship in the Guise of Authorship: Harmonizing Copyright and the First Amendment
Hon. M. Margaret McKeown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit discusses the real and pressing tensions between …
IPR Proceedings have sparked controversies that have now made their way to the Supreme Court
Alyssa Hertel | 1/30/16 The Inter Partes Review (“IPR”) system was implemented as a result of the America Invents Act of 2011 …
New: Federal Circuit’s Obviousness Test For New Pharmaceutical Compounds: Gobbledygook?
In order to obtain a U.S. patent, an invention must not have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art (“PHOSITA”) at the time of the invention. PHOSITA is not a real person…
New: Silent Similarity
From 1909 to 1930, U.S. courts grappled with claims by authors of prose works claiming that works in a new art form—silent …
Keynote Address: Stalemate or Statesmen?
Mr. David J. Kappos, former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, challenged audience members to consider …