Design patents offer valuable protection in a patent portfolio, including conferring different strategic advantages compared to those of utility patents. For example, design patents allow for recovery ...
Finding that the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (Board) applied an erroneous interpretation of claim scope, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a Board decision, upholding an ...
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that some software method and system patents are invalid. The nation’s high court, in its June 19 opinion, said the claims in ...