The Justice Department's Antitrust Division, a technology industry group and others have thrown their support behind a proposal to create a separate design patent bar at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, while two key intellectual property groups have pushed back on the idea.
Intellectual property attorneys may have missed news that a key federal judge will be taking senior status, an attorney was sanctioned for knowingly pursuing litigation against the wrong party, and new concerns have come up for trade secrets. Here, Law360 breaks down why these developments not directly about IP are worth your time.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been "draining" the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of its power by allowing former Commissioner Drew Hirshfeld, an official not confirmed by the Senate, to conduct the director reviews mandated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2021, Arthrex Inc. told the justices Sunday.
A recent U.S. Government Accountability Office report detailing an "extraordinary and troubling degree of interference" at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board backs New Vision Gaming's claim that financial incentives at the board rob patent owners of due process, the company has told the Federal Circuit.
Massive drug companies, early-stage startups and a wide range of intellectual property groups were among many parties Tuesday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that the Federal Circuit erred when invalidating Amgen patents in a fight over how to interpret when a patent meets enablement requirements.