Inevitable Disclosures

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a final rule permitting patent applicants to use physical media larger than compact discs, i.e., Digital Video Disc-Recordable (DVD-R or DVD+R), for submission of an electronic version of amino acid and nucleotide sequence information, information compiled in a large table, and information related to a computer program listing. Read more

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a final rule to incorporate International Trademark Classification Changes adopted by the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks. Read more

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently published a Federal Register Notice (FRN) requesting nominations to serve on the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC). Read more

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has updated the General Requirements Bulletin (GRB) for admission to the examination for registration to practice in patent cases before the USPTO. Read more

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has extended the deadline for submitting comments on the state of patent eligibility jurisprudence to October 15, 2021. Read more

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced plans for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to extend the Motion to Amend (MTA) pilot program. Read more

Last week, the United States Department of Justice announced that Viktors Suhorukovs, a citizen of Latvia, was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison and ordered to pay over $4.5 million in restitution after pleading guilty to mail fraud in a multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud owners of U.S. trademark registrations. Read more

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued an interim rule further expanding the availability of prioritized examination (Track One) by increasing the limit on the number of Track One requests that may be accepted in a fiscal year from 12,000 to 15,000. Read more

Senators Patrick Leahy and Thom Tillis recently introduced introduced the bipartisan Unleashing American Innovators Act. Read more

Two years ago, when I assumed my role as Chair of the IP Section, I – like everyone else – could not have imagined what the last two years would hold. Read more