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Prosecution Strategies for the AIA Era

October 27, 2023Patentobviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Post-Hoc Party: You Should Have Said That Before

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Techno-Optimism and Its Ties to the U.S. Patent System

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One Patent’s ‘Processor’ is Another’s ‘Means for Processing’: Dueling Claim Constructions at the Federal Circuit

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Copyright-Free Sandbox: Implications of AI-Generated Content

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One or More: One Simple Trick to Invalidate this Patent

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Fraudulent Incontestability Declarations: Textual Fidelity vs. Fraud Deterrence

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The Complex Fact/Law Divide in Obviousness Analysis

October 17, 2023Patentmotivation to combine, obviousness, Oil States, paidDennis Crouch

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Amending Claims to Capture Post-Filing Market Activity

October 17, 2023PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Patent Continuation Strategies Face Major Threat

October 16, 2023Patentobviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Claim Construction and the Indefinite Article Shuffle

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Secondary Considerations Get Short Shrift in Airbed Patent Fight

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The History and Importance of the Jury Trial System – An Excerpt from a Patent Infringement Trial

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Sisvel v. Sierra Wireless – Useful Guidance for Prosecutors on Motivation to Combine and Means-Plus-Function Claims

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Kavanaugh Signals Openness to Revisiting Patent Eligibility Framework as Supreme Court Declines CareDx Petition

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Discovering the Limit: Calculating the Copyright Damages Timeline

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Broad Claims Bite Back: Drafting Narrower Scope in the Age of IPR

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