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July 7, 2025

U.S. Chemical & Life Science Patents Q2 Newsletter

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June 30, 2025

5 Federal Circuit Patent Cases You Need To Know

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June 26, 2025

Enablement, Anticipation, and Claim Strategy: Rethinking Biotech Patent Drafting Post-Agilent

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June 23, 2025

Six Actions to Take to Ensure Your Trade Secret Stays Secret

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Cannabis And Trademarks: Protecting Against Infringement

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May 13, 2025

The Hypocrisy of ‘Delete IP’: Billionaire Frustrations Masquerading as Policy

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November 9, 2018

Will Netflix have a Devil of a Time Defending Suit Brought by Satanic Temple?

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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October 29, 2018

Fractional Patents

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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October 25, 2018

The Village (Patent) People

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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October 17, 2018

Game of Groans: HBO Files Trademark Opposition Against Game of Thorns

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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October 14, 2018

Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder, not the Fee Holder

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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October 12, 2018

The Board May Consider Non-Prior Art Evidence in Considering the Knowledge, Motivations, and Expectations of a PHOSITA Regarding the Prior Art

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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October 12, 2018

District Court Did Not Rely on Flawed Obvious to Try Rational

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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October 10, 2018

Injunction Vacated; Defendants Free as a Bird to Distribute Film about Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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October 9, 2018

Details Save Claims from Invalidity Under Section 101

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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October 9, 2018

Primers and the Use of Naturally Occurring Position-Specific Signature Nucleotides are Patent Ineligible

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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October 4, 2018

Federal Circuit Agrees that CORN THINS and RICE THINS are Least Merely Descriptive

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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September 30, 2018

Beyoncé v. Feyonce — If Enough Consumers Get the Joke, There May not be a Likelihood of Confusion

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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September 27, 2018

BioPharma Patents Quick Tips & News – March 2016 – Throwback Edition

By: Leanne M. Rakers, Principal

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September 24, 2018

(Prior) Art Masterpieces

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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September 18, 2018

The Real World is Irrelevant in Judging the Similarity Between DETROIT ATHLETIC CO. and DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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September 17, 2018

Do Over — Different Evidence and Different Evidentiary Standard Allow IPR to Reach Different Conclusion of Validity than ITC

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

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September 17, 2018

Clearly Defining A Term Without Providing Any Way to Determine When it has Been “Optimized” as Claimed Dooms Claims Under 112

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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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 17, 2018

Blocking Patent Can Explain Long-Felt But Unmet Need, Reducing Importance of Objective Indicia of Nonobviousness

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal