My Nov. 14, 2019 blog concerned the Federal Circuit’s decision in Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., 941 F.3d 1320 (Fed. Cir. 2019). In that decision, a three-judge panel held that the appointment process for administrative law judges violates the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

The Supreme Court issued a decision in a criminal case in June that has implications in trade-secret law.

My previous two blog posts discussed the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 11,000,000 on May 11, 2021 and other milestone patents. In this post, I discuss the remaining milestone patents.

My last blog discussed the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 11,000,000 on May 11, 2021. In the post, I discussed a few milestone patents. This post will discuss a few more.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that it issued U.S. Patent No. 11,000,000 on May 11, 2021. The patent was granted to co-inventors Saravana B. Kumar and Jason S. Diedering of 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. in Maple Grove, Minn.

The Supreme Court determined that Google was entitled to copy roughly 11,500 lines of computer code that formed part of an application programming interface (API) for Oracle’s Java SE program. An API is a tool that allows programmers to call upon prewritten computing tasks for use in their own programs.

The Copyright Office has created a new online group registration option for short online literary works.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a report titled “Trademark and Patent Filings in China” (the Report) on Jan. 13, 2021, that discussed the recent rise in Chinese intellectual-property filings. The Report notes that the relevant authorities in China received about 7.8 million trademark applications and 1.5 million utility patent applications, which represented nearly half of the global total.

My last blog post discussed two changes to the U.S. trademark prosecution process that were contained within the recently enacted Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA). This blog will discuss two new types of administrative proceedings that were created by the CAA.

My last blog post discussed one of the changes to U.S. trademark law that were contained within the recently enacted Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA).