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July 7, 2025

U.S. Chemical & Life Science Patents Q2 Newsletter

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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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May 13, 2025

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

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Harness IP IP Litigation PTAB Proceedings

September 15, 2017

Response Arguments Do Not Have to Be Preemptively Addressed in the Petition or Institution Decision

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP Intellectual Property Lawyers

September 14, 2017

Federal Circuit Reverses PTAB for Refusing to Allow Supplementation of Record to Add Later Inconsistent Deposition Testimony from an Expert

By: Douglas A. Robinson, Principal

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September 13, 2017

Accused Trade Secret Thief Failed to Make Uber Showing Required for Writ of Mandamus

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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September 13, 2017

Subject of Internal Investigation Could not Block Disclosure of Report to Third Party

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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September 13, 2017

Claims Can’t Be Construed Contrary to Specification, and then Invalidated for Being Contrary to Specification

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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September 13, 2017

Foreign Suits Involving Foreign Patents Do Not Create a Case or Controversy in the U.S.

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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September 9, 2017

When Your Background Dooms The Invention

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP IP Litigation IPR Attorneys

September 8, 2017

Objective Indicia Were Properly Considered and Did Not Save Cookie Package Patent from Summary Judgment of Obviousness

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP IP Attorneys

September 8, 2017

Mere Quantification of the Results of a Known Process is Not Patentable

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP Intellectual Property Attorneys

September 7, 2017

Dance Like No One is Watching; Email Like it’s Being Read Aloud at your Deposition

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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September 7, 2017

Knowledge of Ex-Employees Working for Accused Infringer Makes Inducement Claim Plausible

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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September 7, 2017

At The Bench: 2017 Mid-Year Case Review

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal; Jennifer M. Woodside Wojtala, Principal; Jewell N. Briggs, Associate; Jennifer R. Turchyn, Principal

Harness IP IP Litigation PTAB Proceedings

September 6, 2017

Follow-on IPR Petitions are Unfair to Patent Owners and an Inefficient Use of the Process

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP Intellectual Property Copyright Attorneys

September 4, 2017

Out-of-CTRL C

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP IP Litigation PTAB Proceedings

September 3, 2017

Federal Circuit’s Amicus Brief in Oil States

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP IP Litigation PTAB Proceedings

August 31, 2017

News Alert: Precedential Patent and Trademark Order by the Federal Circuit

By: Douglas A. Robinson, Principal

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August 30, 2017

Not Every Instance of an Agency Reaching Inconsistent Outcomes in Similar, Related Cases will Necessarily be Erroneous

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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August 28, 2017

“A Reasonable Adjudicator Would have Wanted to Review this Evidence.”

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP IP Litigation IPR Attorneys

August 28, 2017

Preemption is “Part and Parcel” of the §101; But Lack of Preemption Does Not Necessarily Establish Patentability

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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August 25, 2017

Routine Optimization Cannot Make Invention Obvious Without A Reasonable Expectation for Success

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal