People always ask me, “What is SUP?” and “Why is its Debt Equity Model (Cap Table) relevant when I can build my cap table using an online tool?” Here is my answer! In the Beginning – Venture Cap Tables Years
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Inventorship: Be Ever Aware of Who Owns What
Inventorship remains the touchstone of who owns patentable technology. Yet inventorship remains, at times, one of the most perplexing and contentious aspects of patent law.
Case in point is the recent 111-page decision in Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, Inc. v. Ono
Future Trends on the Doctrine of Equivalents?
Claims of infringement under the doctrine of equivalents routinely accompany literal infringement claims in patent infringement litigation. Likewise, patent prosecutors typically try to avoid narrowing the scope of equivalents during prosecution of a patent application. But, a pair of recent
Reasonable Expectations of Success and Compound Claims “As a Whole”
Challenges to new molecule patents frequently hinge on the question of obviousness in view of a prior art “lead compound.” More often than not, patentees fend off these challenges by successfully arguing against selection or modification of the asserted lead compound,
False Advertising: The Theory of Necessary Implication and the Presumption that Runs with It
In writing this post, I had hoped to get back to basics and address the elements of a false advertising claim. But when doing so, the proverbial onion layers started to unravel—one of those layers being the theory of necessary
USPTO Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance Does Not Carry the Day in Court
In Cleveland Clinic Foundation v. True Health Diagnostics LLC (nonprecedential), the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s order granting defendant’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss because the asserted patent claims are invalid under Section 101. The two asserted patents issued
A Good Reminder that Electrical Claims and Specifications Should Focus on the How, not Just the What
In today’s post-Alice landscape, patent practitioners have developed a gut-feeling about patent eligibility that helps them in various aspects of daily life: advising clients regarding asserted patents, developing office action responses, probing questions in invention disclosure meetings, and drafting effective
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Ex Parte Smith – The Name of the Game is the Claim (and the Specification)
As a follow-up to the post on the release of the 2019 Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance on January 7, 2019, (“Revised Guidance”), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) recently decided Ex Parte Smith Appeal No. 2018-000064 on
Leaders in the Federal Government Embrace Blockchain Technology
Blockchain technology continues to garner the attention and trust by the federal government, recognizing that the technology can make our government more efficient, transparent, and secure. In fact, some federal agencies are leading in the adoption of blockchain rather than