The course on patentability enhances chances of securing valid patents by teaching effective search strategies, focusing on identifying novelty and applicability in compliance with US and European ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) under new Director John Squires has been focused on spurring AI technology growth, with the USPTO in ...

Canada’s Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) system came into force on January 1, 2025. PTA is only potentially available for ...

Patentability of inventions involving artificial intelligence ("AI") can have an outsized impact on how companies in the health care space protect their intellectual property—patents in particular.

John Duffy is the Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law. Although Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank was identified by this website and many other commentators as a major ...

Patent applicants may be unfairly prevented from obtaining commercially valuable protection for a product, particularly during the patent procurement phase, due to recent trends in the application of ...

Aqua Prods. v. Matal, (Fed. Cir. Oct. 4, 2017) (Before Prost, C.J., Newman, Lourie, Dyk, Moore, O’Malley, Reyna, Wallach, Taranto, Chen and Hughes, J.) (Opinion ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. A patentability search is conducted to determine if a given invention is novel or not. Loosely defined, patentability search is a process ...

The Enlarged Board of Appeal has laid down the criteria that allow a practitioner to assess whether a diagnostic method is excluded from patentability under Article 52(4) EPC. In Opinion G1/04 of ...

One of the most common questions any patent practitioner receives relates to knowing when an invention can be patented. How do you know whether you have an invention for which a patent can be obtained ...