The federal court system provides parties with the opportunity to engage in a broad level of discovery. Discovery is the formal process through which litigation participants exchange information that is relevant to the case. As a result, many plaintiffs will avoid doing extensive pre-planning before bringing a lawsuit and rely on the ability to obtain broad discovery, to their detriment.

You filed your patent application. You waited 18 months and received a rejection. You called up your patent lawyer, and she explained to you how you are going to respond.

Conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham published a book titled Shut Up and Sing, which was directed at celebrities who expressed their opinions on various political issues. The phrase sort of became her tagline.

If you read this blog, you will notice that I tend to write a few posts about Supreme Court opinions in intellectual-property (IP) cases. The Supreme Court usually issues at least three to four IP opinions in a year. These opinions are often issued in May or June of a given year, right before the Court’s term ends.

I discussed the two-prong test for the on-sale bar in my Feb. 17, 2022 blog post. The two-prong test for the on-sale bar indicates that a patent claim will be invalid when...

Venue in patent-infringement lawsuits continues to be a heavily contested issue. As I indicated in my June 29, 2017 blog, the Supreme Court made a major change to patent law by narrowing its interpretation of the patent venue statute, 35 U.S.C. § 1400, in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, 581 U.S. ___ (2017).

The Supreme Court issued a recent decision that represents good news for copyright registrants. In Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L. P., 595 U.S. ___ (February 24, 2022), the Court held that a minor error of law by a copyright registrant did not invalidate a copyright registration.

Myanmar has been identified as a potential source of low-cost manufacturing since at least 2014. Unfortunately, a recent coup and the COVID crisis have threatened the country’s status as an emerging economy. 

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a patent applicant can invalidate his or her patent by sending certain types of letters prior to the filing date of a patent application.

A recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which is the second-highest-ranking court that decides patent cases in the U.S., indicates that patent applicants must take extra care when claiming ranges in their patent applications.