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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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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 Attorneys

April 19, 2016

It is Error to Ignore Functional Structures Entirely in a Design Patent Construction

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP IP Litigation IPR Attorneys

April 19, 2016

It’s Not the Broadest Reasonable Interpretation, but the Broadest Reasonable Interpretation in Light of the Specification

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

April 10, 2016

Where to Protect Trademarks Abroad

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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April 9, 2016

Discoveries Are Not Patentable.

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

April 8, 2016

An Animated Review of Design Patents

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

April 7, 2016

Iconography

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

April 5, 2016

We’ll Say it Again: Redundancy is not Reviewable

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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April 5, 2016

Invalidity Determination Would Not Apply to Reexamination Claims That Did not Exist at Time of Judgment

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

April 5, 2016

Equitable Estoppel Stops NPE From Asserting Patents that its Assignor Failed to Assert

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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April 5, 2016

BRI Should Not Depart from What the Claim Language and Specification so Clearly Mean

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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April 4, 2016

A Plea for a Charitable and Common-Sensical Claim Construction

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

April 4, 2016

Protecting Websites

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP IP Lawyers

April 4, 2016

PTO Issues Final Rule Changes to IPR Proceedings

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

Harness IP IP Litigation IPR Attorneys

April 1, 2016

If You Want to Contest Jurisdiction, Don’t File a Counterclaim

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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April 1, 2016

PGR, IPR, and CBMPR Rules Amended Effective May 2, 2016

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

April 1, 2016

Preference for Giving Each Claim Term Effect Does Not Overcome Meaning Apparent from the Specification

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

March 24, 2016

Functional Claim Language Does Not Render Apparatus Claim Indefinite For Including Both Method And Apparatus

By: Nicholas S. Drysdale, Principal

March 23, 2016

Assignor Estoppel is Still A Thing

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

Harness IP IP Lawyers

March 23, 2016

Estoppel Does Not Apply to Uninstituted Grounds

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal

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March 21, 2016

Sometimes the Application of a New Technology is Obvious from the New Technology itself

By: Bryan K. Wheelock, Principal