July 02, 2018
Bryan K. Wheelock
Principal
St. Louis Metro Office
720 Recent Articles
July 02, 2018
Board Failed to Properly Consider Circumstances of Disclosure When It Determined They Were Not Printed Publications
July 02, 2018
Federal Circuit Affirms Non-obvious Holding in “Close” Case, Declining to Disturb Factual Findings on Motivation
June 21, 2018
No Littoral Infringement; Plaintiff Still Waiting for its Ship to Come In
June 20, 2018
10**7 — Reaching U.S. Patent No. 10,000,000
June 14, 2018
June 14, 2018 is Flag Day
May 30, 2018
Buc-ee’s Beaver Logo Infringed by Competitor’s Alligator Logo
May 29, 2018
The Novelty of an Optical Isomer is not Negated by the Prior Art Disclosure of its Racemate
May 29, 2018
Printed Matter Cannot Be a Patentable Limitation Unless it is Functionally Related to the Claim Elements
May 09, 2018
Ice Cream Brain Freeze
May 02, 2018
Plaintiff Pleads Plaid Pattern Plagiarized
April 26, 2018
The Old “Practicing the Prior Art” Defense
April 25, 2018
Wash Your Hands Before Going to Court; Unclean Hands Wipe out Recovery for Valid and Infringed Patents
April 24, 2018
Inter Partes Review: If We’re Going to Have Them Then It’s All or Nothing
April 24, 2018
What the PTO Giveth, the PTO Can Taketh Away. Inter Partes Reviews are Constitutional. Get Back to Work.
April 24, 2018
Counting Votes is an Abstract Idea, and Simply Automating the Process Doesn’t Make it Patentable
April 20, 2018
Neither Express Agreement, nor Implied Agreement, Clearly Deprived a Putative Inventor of Standing to Challenge Inventorship of a Patent Under 35 USC 256
April 17, 2018
Lack of Corroboration Caused Claim of Prior Invention to Fail
April 16, 2018
Hold the Mayo: Specific Method of Treatment for Specific Patients using a Specific Compound at Specific Doses to Achieve a Specific Outcome Is Patent-Eligible Subject Matter
April 16, 2018