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USPTO announces revisions to patent term adjustment rules

  • Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 5 2013

On April 1, 2013, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published an interim final rule revising several patent term adjustment (PTA

New gtld Clearinghouse will open March 26, 2013

  • Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • February 27 2013

ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) plans to launch the first of the registries associated with the new generic top-level

In oral arguments during Bowman v. Monsanto the Supreme Court struggles with exhaustion doctrine for patented seeds

  • Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 22 2013

On February 19, 2013, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Vernon Hugh Bowman v. Monsanto Company. This case has far-reaching

Patent filing considerations under the AIA on the eve of March16th

  • Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 22 2013

March 16, 2013 is rapidly approaching. This date is significant because it is the effective date of Section 3 of the American Invents Act (AIA

Final rules for implementing the first-inventor-to-file provisions of the America Invents Act

  • Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 20 2013

The transition to the first-inventor-to-file (FITF) system occurs on March 16, 2013. To prepare for implementing the change to the FITF system, the

Pending petition for CBM review results in litigation stay

  • Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 19 2013

The stay provisions of America Invents Act 18(b) related to covered business method patent review ("CBM review") were recently applied in

America Invents Act inter partes review

  • Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 14 2013

An inter partes review (“IPR”) enables a third party to challenge one or more claims in an issued patent at the United States Patent & Trademark

Design patent case digest: Victor Stanley, Inc. v. Creative Pipe, Inc.

  • Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 18 2013

In order to determine whether the Nebelli and Necati park benches infringed the ‘263 patent, the Court carried out the ordinary observer test. Since

AIA technical corrections bill signed into law

  • Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 15 2013

President Obama signed into law H.R. 6621 on January 14, 2013, enacting a number of technical corrections to the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act and

USPTO issues first decision instituting CBM

  • Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 10 2013

On January 9, 2013, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued its first decision in a Covered Business Method Patent Review (CBM) proceeding