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August 8, 2025

“Navigating Patent Term Adjustment and Patent Term Extension: Recent Court Rulings and Their Impact on Obviousness-Type Double Patenting,” The National Law Review

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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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June 23, 2025

Cannabis And Trademarks: Protecting Against Infringement

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December 22, 2017

You Have Goat to be Kidding Me

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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December 22, 2017

Aqua Holds Water; Board’s Denial of Motion to Amend Vacated Because Board Improperly Put Burden on Patent Owner

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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December 20, 2017

Whether Third Party Acts are Attributable to Infringer in a Divided Infringement Situation is Question of Fact

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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December 20, 2017

Dear Santa … A Patent Law Wish List for 2018

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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December 18, 2017

Federal Circuit Affirms Board on Claim Construction, No Anticipation, and Nonobviousness

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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December 15, 2017

Immoral and Scandalous Matter are as Registrable as Disparaging Matter; The Principal Register is FUCT

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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December 14, 2017

No Need to be your Own Lexicographer

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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December 9, 2017

The Marking Requirement is Alive and Well; Don’t Forget about Virtual Marking

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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December 8, 2017

Patent Owner Has Burden to Prove Marking Once Infringer Identifies Unmarked Products

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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December 8, 2017

Copyright Claim from Out of the Blue

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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December 6, 2017

Copyright Does Not Protect Ideas, Only Expression

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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December 5, 2017

Obviousness v. Anticipation: That Which Doesn’t Disclose Still Could Teach

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Intellectual Property Checklist

November 27, 2017

PTAB Provides Guidance on Motions to Amend

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

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November 21, 2017

Intervening Rights Apply When There Is a Product that Infringes the Original Claim that Does Not Infringe the Amended Claim

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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November 20, 2017

Breadth is not Indefiniteness; If the Relevant Skilled Artisan has Reasonable Certainty as to What is Covered the Claim is Not Indefinite

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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November 15, 2017

Perhaps Out of Guilt, the Federal Circuit Grants Mandamus to Permit Venue Challenge

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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November 14, 2017

Not All Pirates are in the Caribbean

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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November 9, 2017

BioPharma Patents Quick Tips & News – November 2017

By: Leanne M. Rakers, Principal

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November 9, 2017

Amendment of Claims in Parent Application Do Not Apply to Continuation Claims that do not have the Amended Language

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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November 8, 2017

Is the Reproduction of a Branded Product in a Depiction of Real Life an Infringement?

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal