The Supreme Court confirmed that patents are entitled to a presumption of validity even when an accused infringer relies on “new” prior art in Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership, 564 U.S. ___, 131 S.Ct. 2238 (2011).

The Supreme Court issued two decisions in 2014 that made it easier for accused infringers to recover attorney’s fees when patent owners lose at trial.

A patentee is required to conclude his or her patent specification with one or more claims that particularly and distinctly point out the subject matter of the invention.

The Supreme Court has considered the limits of patent eligibility over the last five years in three different cases.

Patents are one of the few instruments that can be used by their owners to obtain a legal monopoly in the U.S.

A recent ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the appellate court that handles most patent cases in the U.S., is the subject of this special blog post.

I would like to review some of the most recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court that changed patent law over the last five years.

I would like to address some of the significant steps that the Obama Administration and the FTC have taken over the last five years.

It is time to take another break from discussing patent reform to address a recent copyright infringement decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.