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May 1, 2025

A DMCA Takedown notice is a powerful tool if done correctly.

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April 4, 2025

U.S. Chemical & Life Science Patents Quarterly Newsletter

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April 1, 2025

Do You Have a Patent Infringement Problem?

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January 2, 2025

Navigating Complex Federal Regulations When Protecting Your Cannabis Brands

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December 16, 2024

20 March 2024 USPTO Alert: USPTO ensures robust and reliable patents through examiner training on searching for prior art in FDA and NIH databases

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November 19, 2024

The 7 Things You Don’t Say (In Writing) When Your Company is Accused of Patent Infringement

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Harness IP IP Litigation PTAB Proceedings

February 4, 2020

Federal Circuit Asks PTAB to Give it a Go and Decide Whether Indefinite Claims Were Otherwise Patentable

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

IP Litigation and Contested Matters

January 30, 2020

General Knowledge is Available in Obviousness Inquiry Even Though IPRs are Limited to Documentary Prior Art

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP IP Litigation IPR Attorneys

January 10, 2020

IPR Decision Wipes Out Patent Owner’s Earlier Victory in District Court

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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May 13, 2019

Another IPR Petitioner Had No Standing to Appeal; Does Estoppel Apply to Such Petitioners?

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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September 17, 2018

Expert Testimony Critical to Determining Meaning of Prior Art to a PHOSITA

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP IP Litigation PTAB Proceedings

September 17, 2018

Petitioner Bears the Ultimate Burden of Persuasion With Respect to Real Party in Interest

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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September 4, 2018

You Can’t Sidestep Nonappealability of Institution Decisions with Mandamus

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP Intellectual Property Lawyers

September 4, 2018

Federal Circuit Vacates Another IPR as Time-Barred

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

PTAB Litigation

September 4, 2018

What Has Been Served Cannot Be Unserved: §315(b) Time Bar Applies Even if the Suit is Subsequently Withdrawn

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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August 3, 2018

Undue Process: You Can Ask the USPTO to Review a Patent, but if They Blow it, You may be Powerless to Appeal

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

IP Litigation and Contested Matters

July 30, 2018

Tribal Immunity Does Not Save Allergan’s Patents from IPR

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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July 13, 2018

Unreasonably Broad Construction Unlimited by the Specification, Resulted in Incorrect Finding of Anticipation

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Rollercoaster Metaphor for USPTO Rules

May 8, 2018

USPTO Considers Replacing Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Standard in IPRs & PGRs

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

Harness IP IP Litigation IPR Attorneys

April 24, 2018

Partial Institution Decisions Go, as IPR Proceedings in General are Here to Stay

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

Harness IP IP Law & The Constitution

April 24, 2018

IPRs Are Here to Stay, But Partial Institution Decisions Are a Thing of the Past

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

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April 24, 2018

Inter Partes Review: If We’re Going to Have Them Then It’s All or Nothing

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP Supreme Court IP Litigation

April 24, 2018

What the PTO Giveth, the PTO Can Taketh Away. Inter Partes Reviews are Constitutional. Get Back to Work.

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Understanding Intellectual Property Agreements

April 2, 2018

District Court Orders Petitioner to Seek Termination of IPR based on Forum Selection Clause

By: Douglas A. Robinson, Principal

IP Litigation and Contested Matters

March 2, 2018

PTAB Opines Tribal Sovereign Immunity Does Not Apply to IPRs

By: Glenn E. Forbis, Principal

Harness IP IP Litigators

January 24, 2018

Disclaimer in IPR Raises Patent Owner Estoppel

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal