April 28, 2020
Bryan K. Wheelock
Principal
St. Louis Metro Office
719 Recent Articles
April 24, 2020
Losing the Right to Challenge a Patent is not Enough to Confer Standing to Appeal IPR Decision
April 24, 2020
Pro Se Applicant Gets the Same Result as the Pros: Method of Fishing is Abstract
April 22, 2020
Assignor Estoppel Cannot Resurrect Patent Invalidated in an IPR, but it Can Save Patent from Challenge in District Court
April 21, 2020
Getting the Infringement Case Dismissed as Moot Still Counts as a Win
April 21, 2020
The Scope of Patent Term Extension under 35 USC §156 Only Includes the Active Ingredient of an Approved Product
April 21, 2020
Wrong or Purposefully Evasive Decisions on IPR Time Bar Are Not Reviewable
April 20, 2020
Selection of Primary Reference in Design Patent Case is a Question of Fact that Should Not be Resolved on Summary Judgment
April 17, 2020
Patent Claims Focusing on Improving Cardiac Monitoring Technology are Eligible Subject Matter
April 10, 2020
Who Knew? Banks are People and Can Petition for Post-issuance Review, Too
April 10, 2020
Good Friday 2020 and a History of Easter Eggs According to a Patent
April 09, 2020
A Patent Claim is not Indefinite Merely Because Infringement Can’t be Determined in Advance
April 09, 2020
The Board Can Identify New Issues of the Patentability of Amended Claims; But Must give the Parties Notice
April 08, 2020
Color the TTAB Embarrassed; Packaging Colors can be Inherently Distinctive
April 08, 2020
Similar Compounds at Overlapping pH’s Created Prima Facie Case of Obviousness
April 08, 2020
Licensing of Process, and Sale of the Business using Process, did not put Invention on Sale
April 08, 2020
Erroneous Patent Claim Interpretation and Misunderstanding of Case Law Results in Reversal of No Anticipation
April 03, 2020
Allegations of Infringement Should not have been Enjoined without Evidence of Bad Faith
April 03, 2020
Removal Improper Because Trade Secret Claim did not Necessarily Raise Inventorship Issues
April 01, 2020