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fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
4 years agoPatent Filings Roundup: Heavy District Court Docket Sees Fortress Biotech ANDA Litigation; WePay Expands GUI Design Patent Assertion Against Major Online Payment Systems
Over 100 new patent complaints were filed in the district court, with significant activity in pharmaceutical and cybersecurity sectors.
Intellectual property law
frompatentlyo.com
1 month agoUntethered: USPTO Loosens the Article of Manufacture Requirement for Digital Designs
The USPTO relaxed design patent rules for computer-generated interfaces and icons, removing display panel requirements, allowing 'for' prepositions in claims, and extending eligibility to projected, holographic, virtual, and augmented reality designs.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
2 months agoFind the Differences vs Substantial Similarity: Chief Judge Moore Challenges Federal Circuit's Design Patent Infringement Framework
Federal Circuit affirms non-infringement; the application of the "plainly dissimilar" standard is criticized as diverging from the Supreme Court's "substantially similar" test.
fromPatently-O
4 months agoThe Surprising Headline of 2025: USPTO Stability?
The USPTO issued ~325,800 utility patents in calendar year 2025, a figure virtually unchanged from the ~325,600 issued in 2024. This stability marks another year in what has become a post-pandemic plateau for utility patent issuances, with annual totals hovering around this mark since 2021. The days of dramatic year-over-year growth appear to be behind us, at least for now. Over the past two years, allowance rates have also remained virtually unchanged.
Intellectual property law
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
9 months agoCAFC Says Prosecution History Disclaimer Applies to Design Patents, Too
"We see no reason to distinguish between disclaimer by amendment and disclaimer by argument and conclude that a patentee may surrender claim scope of a design patent by its representations to the Patent Office during prosecution."
Intellectual property law
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
10 months agoNorth Star Files Petition for Rehearing Challenging CAFC's 'Sufficiently Distinct' Test for Design Patent Infringement
If the 'sufficiently distinct' test is intended to impose a special gloss on Rule 56, that gloss cannot stand.
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