March 28, 2020
Bryan K. Wheelock
Principal
St. Louis Metro Office
719 Recent Articles
March 28, 2020
Endless Litigation
March 19, 2020
Celebrating Spring 2020 with Patents
March 18, 2020
§ 315(c) Does Not Authorize Joinder of Two Proceedings, or Joining a Person to a Proceeding in Which that Person is Already a Party
March 17, 2020
An Improved Step in a Diagnostic Method is Patentable Subject Matter
March 16, 2020
Design Patent Infringement Affirmed Where Defendant Did Not Proffer Jury Instructions or Introduce Prior Art
March 13, 2020
Prosecution History Doesn’t Have to Rise to the Level of Disclaimer to Inform the meaning of the Disputed Claim Term
March 13, 2020
Patent’s Prosecution History Informs the Meaning of the Claim Language, Saving them from Invalidity
March 13, 2020
First-Filed Declaratory Judgment Dismissed in Favor of Later-Filed Infringement Action
March 08, 2020
International Women’s Day: Recognizing Mary Dixon Kies, First Woman to Obtain a U.S. Patent
March 06, 2020
Software Can Make Non-Abstract Improvements to Computer Technology Just as Hardware Can (But Didn’t Here)
March 02, 2020
Federal Circuit Finds Lawyers Chose Advocacy over Candor
February 29, 2020
Leap Patents
February 19, 2020
Motivation to Combine Prior Art Can Come from Knowledge of those Skilled in the art, the Art Itself, or the Nature of the Problem
February 19, 2020
Licensee’s Failure to Mark Licensed Products Limits Patent Owner’s Recovery
February 18, 2020
Hilton Sued for $4.6 Million for Infringing Restaurant Name, Trademark for Six Months
February 17, 2020
Presidents’ Day 2020: Presidential Patents Beyond Lincoln
February 14, 2020
Happy Valentines Day (Patents) 2020
February 13, 2020
A Binding Settlement Agreement Generally Moots the Action Even if it Requires Future Performance
February 13, 2020