The explosion of artificial intelligence has raised some challenging questions in patent law, particularly with prior art, or the body of knowledge available prior to the filing of patent application.
Two of the most...more
A new Biden Administration proposal would provide a path for federal agencies to cite high prices as a reason for giving alternative producers rights to make products covered by federally funded inventions.
On December...more
This week’s Federal Circuit decision confirms that term-adjusted patents can be invalidated by earlier-expiring patents in the same patent family under the obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) doctrine. This ruling is...more
On March 22, 2021, the US District Court for the District of New Jersey found a patent’s claims not invalid under the doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting (OTDP) in view of a reference patent from the same patent...more