On April 15, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First.” The order reaffirms and seeks to expand on policy initiatives introduced during the president’s…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
In November 2024, the Local Division (LD) Mannheim of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) issued the UPC’s first-ever substantive decision on standard essential patents (SEPs) and fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND)…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade
Ex parte reexamination (EPRx) comes with risks and rewards for both patent challengers and patent owners. Patent challengers enjoy a lower threshold for institution and avoid the estoppel risk of other post-grant proceedings but…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
On March 20, 2025, the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) granted an opposition filed by Jack’s Family Restaurants, LP, and denied an application filed by Jack’s Grill and Billiards, Inc., to register JACK’S DOWNTOWN…
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/ Intellectual Property
In a precedential decision invoking the “zone of natural expansion” doctrine, on March 19, 2025, the Federal Circuit upheld a decision by the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) cancelling in part registrations for…
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/ Intellectual Property
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has recently made several significant changes that are reshaping discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Ex parte reexamination (EPRx) is a powerful tool that allows any party — including the patent owner — to request that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reassess the validity of an issued patent based on prior…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
On March 13, 2025, the Federal Circuit decided in Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V. v. Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc. (No. 2023-2254) how patent term extensions (PTEs) apply to reissued patents under the Hatch-Waxman Act…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
On March 10, President Trump nominated John Squires as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
This post summarizes some of the significant developments from the Texas District Courts for the month of February 2025…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Fish & Richardson’s 2024 Post-Grant Report takes a deep dive into the cases, trends, and statistics that shaped Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practice throughout the year and how they might affect practitioners going…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
In a rare case involving an admitted error by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, on February 20, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the denial of Agadia Systems Inc.’s application for FORMULARYHUB…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
In October 2023, Teva Pharmaceuticals filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Amneal Pharmaceuticals alleging that their generic version of Teva’s ProAir® HFA inhaler infringed upon the asserted claims of U.S. Patent Nos…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
On February 28, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced that it has rescinded the June 21, 2022, memorandum about discretionary denials in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) post-grant proceedings with…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Earlier this month, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) implemented amendments to its Rules of Practice and Procedure governing Section 337 investigations. The amended rules, which govern investigations instituted…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, International Law & Trade
