I was honored and privileged to be a roundtable panel member for Cornell’s Intellectual Property and Ethics Club (CIPEC) IPAthon event Saturday March 26, 2022. It was a wonderful day of sharing ideas and perspectives on Intellectual Property. The first roundtable panel looking at “local” issues in entrepreneurship and opportunities in technology and business.…
The After Final Consideration Pilot 2.0 (AFCP 2.0) has been extended through September 30, 2022. AFCP 2.0 is part of the USPTO’s on-going efforts towards compact prosecution and increased collaboration between examiners and stakeholders. Read the full announcement.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has 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. The USPTO’s continued monitoring of the Track One program confirmed…
Changes for Copyright Protection of Websites Under New DMCA Online Registration System On December 1, 2016 a new online registration system for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) was launched by the U.S. Copyright Office. With the new system comes several changes, as well as an expiration date for the original paper system established in…
U.S. Department of Commerce Proposes New Bayh-Dole Regulations On November 7, 2016 the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. The Act pertains to rights in technology developed with the aid of federal funds. The content of the NPRM may be relevant to universities, nonprofit…
US Patent & Trademark Office Issues New Subject Matter Eligibility (SME) Memo Earlier this month, the USPTO issued a new Memorandum on Recent Subject Matter Eligibility Decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit). The Memorandum focuses on two recent Federal Circuit cases, namely McRO, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2016) and BASCOM…
Supreme Court Hears Apple v. Samsung Apple squares off with Samsung today before the United States Supreme Court, addressing a long-standing dispute relating to the design of the early version iPhone, first brought to light in a 2012 trial. This is the first design patent dispute heard by the Court in over a century. At…