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• About the Artist
• An Interview with Li-Hsien (Lily) Rin-Laures
• Patenting Nature

  Examine the rationales for limiting patent eligibility in the life sciences, the problems entailed, and proposals for expanding the scope of statutory subject matter eligibility.

• IP Strategies for the Red-Hot Digital Health Industry

  Explore opportunities and challenges for protecting digital health technologies, including patent eligibility challenges, use of trade secrets, and sustaining product life cycles.

• Pulling Back the Curtain on Complex Funding of Patent Assertion Entities

  Discover how a single patent metastasized into one of the biggest patent assertion entities, and how these entities leverage the continuing imbalance in the cost of litigation.

• Reverse Confusion: A Trademark Doctrine in Decline or on the Rise?

  Review the history of reverse confusion, which occurs when a company ignores the trademark rights of a smaller competitor, causing confusion as to the source of the first user’s goods.

• Who Owns That Patent? Do Your Interactions with Others Jeopardize Your Patent Ownership?

  Recent inventorship case law demonstrates potential risks to patent ownership when third-party interactions lead to an invention and suggests how to mitigate these risks.

• Why Open Source Licenses with a Commons Clause May Become Less Common

  Consider the Commons Clause and the competing policy issues that can arise when deciding whether to modify existing open source licenses.

• Decisions in Brief
• Leading by Example: Elevating Women through Intentionality

  Eight “rising stars” in IP share their views on leadership, mentorship, and the role that men can play in elevating women, as well as advice to the future generation of leaders.

Featured documents

• The Colorblind Patent System and Black Inventors

  American ideals of innovation and inventing have always applied equally to the demographic tapestry of American inventors, though black inventors have experienced barriers to the American patent system....

• Patenting Nature

  Examine the rationales for limiting patent eligibility in the life sciences, the problems entailed, and proposals for expanding the scope of statutory subject matter eligibility....

• Evolutionary Tales: Times of the Best and Worst
• Influencers: What Every Brand and Legal Counsel Should Know

  While influencer programs serve as valuable marketing tools, they can present legal challenges if not properly structured and monitored. Brands should clarify influencer disclosure obligations, train employees, and encourage compliant campaigns....

• Prosecution Insights Gleaned from a Review of Recent Patent Examiner Training

  A 24-year USPTO veteran reviews recent office training and offers perspectives on patent examiner culture, training, and practical practice tips....

• A New Frontier in Patent Bar Ethics?
• Attorney-Client Privilege for In-House Counsel

  This article provides an overview of attorney-client privilege issues facing in-house counsel and practical guidance on how to address privilege issues in the corporate setting....

• Introduction to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

  Administrative patent judges describe the processes and procedures the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) uses to resolve the thousands of cases before it each year....

• Proving Patent Eligibility Using Preemption: How the Federal Circuit's Decisions in McRO v. Bandai Expands the Boundaries for Patent?Eligible Inventions

  Many decisions after Alice v. CLS Bank used preemption only for patent ineligibility under § 101. McRO v. Bandai reverses this trend using an approach that appears to create more space for patent-eligible inventions....

• Big Changes in International IP Laws: Business Methods and Computer Programs in China and Copyright Protection for Digital Technologies in Europe

  To keep pace with the evolution of IP around the world, China amended its patent examination guidelines to clarify patent subject matter eligibility of business methods and computer programs, and Europe has proposed copyright reform in the digital single market....