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Drew Hirshfeld – Acting Director of the USPTO

June 7, 2017PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Michelle Lee Resigns as PTO Director

June 6, 2017PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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CBM Review Keeps its Narrow Scope: Narrowly Surviving En Banc Challenge

June 6, 2017PatentAIA Trials, Business Methods, CBM, Federal Circuit En Banc, paidDennis Crouch

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Demystifying Drug Importation after Impression v. Lexmark

June 6, 2017PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Abusing Discretion on Attorney Fees

June 5, 2017PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Inc.: will International Patent Exhaustion bring Free Trade in Patented Goods?

June 1, 2017PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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ON-SALE BAR AFTER HELSINN: WHAT IS THE SCOPE?

June 1, 2017PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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How BRI Impacts Proof of Prior Invention

May 31, 2017PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Impression v. Lexmark: Patent Rights Exhausted by Sale, Domestic or Abroad

May 30, 2017Patentpaid, Supreme CourtJason Rantanen

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Are Copyright and Patent Overlapping or Mutually Exclusive in Protecting Software Innovations?

May 27, 2017PatentCopyright, paid, softwareGuest Post

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Patentlyo Bits and Bytes by Anthony McCain

May 25, 2017PatentpaidAnthony McCain

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Chisum on IPR Initiation

May 25, 2017PatentAIA Trials, IPR, paid, Supreme CourtDennis Crouch

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PBS News Hour on Patent Trolls

May 24, 2017PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Fame is Relative in the Trademark Context

May 24, 2017Patentpaid, TrademarkDennis Crouch

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The DTSA Giveth But Does Not Taketh Away

May 24, 2017PatentDTSA, Oil States, paid, Trade SecretsDennis Crouch

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Written Description’s Shifting Focus to the Accused Embodiment

May 23, 2017PatentEssential Element Test, paid, Written DescriptionDennis Crouch

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Supreme Court Reins In Patent Venue

May 22, 2017Patentpaid, Supreme Court, VenueDennis Crouch

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SAS Institute v. Lee: Partial Institution of Inter Partes Review

May 22, 2017PatentAIA Trials, IPR, paid, Supreme CourtDennis Crouch

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Guest Post: Where we Stand with Trade Secret Enforcement in Federal Courts

May 18, 2017PatentAIA Trials, DTSA, Enablement, paid, PGR, Trade SecretsGuest Post

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SAS Institute Inc. v. Lee: Challenging Partial Institution

May 18, 2017PatentAIA Trials, IPR, paid, Supreme CourtDennis Crouch

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