In recent years, the landscape of patent litigation has evolved significantly. Based on data obtained from Lex Machina ®, the U.S. district courts have seen a general decline in overall patent case ...

“We see no reason to distinguish between disclaimer by amendment and disclaimer by argument and conclude that a patentee may surrender claim scope of a design patent by its representations to the ...

Concluding that the principles of prosecution history disclaimer apply to design patents, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s denial of judgment as a matter of ...

March 27, 2025 - Standard-essential patents (SEPs) are highly valued in any patent portfolio. To build a robust SEP portfolio, it is critical to follow practices that survive the Examiner's scrutiny ...

Mistakes made in the patent drafting process can come back to haunt litigants in the court room. Martin Sulsky and Raj S Davé explain how to avoid common drafting errors While to err is human, ...

September 29, 2025 - Life sciences transactions necessarily result in intellectual property (IP) due diligence being carried out on the underlying IP assets that are often a central part of the ...

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Patent prosecution is “a cornerstone” of IP specialist firm Banner Witcoff. The firm has obtained nearly 10,000 US design patents in the past decade — a total that exceeds that of the next three ...

When Luis Alvarez proposed that an asteroid caused the dinosaurs’ extinction, he offered a dramatic explanation for a vanished world: sudden, catastrophic, and final. Lately, some voices in the patent ...

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