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Tomorrow we are releasing our 4th annual Patent Prosecution Intelligence Report. This year for the first time we have evaluated and ranked more than 27 thousand patent attorneys and agents in different categories. The report covers a 5-year period from…
It is known that not all patents make enough money to maintain their protection, actually the numbers show that the majority of them end up making less. This makes some people question the patent concept and say that patents are worthless? Are they?…
APPLE INC. V. WI-LAN INC. Before Moore , Chief Judge , Bryson, and Prost. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Summary : Construing a broad claim term to be re-defined as a disclosed species on a theory that…
BLEPHEX, LLC. v. MYCO INDUSTRIES, INC. Before: Moore, Schall, and O’Malley . Appeal from the Eastern District of Michigan. Summary: Conclusory statements about how a skilled artisan would combine embodiments in a prior art reference are insufficient…
Earlier this year, we published our Third Annual Patent Prosecution Intelligence Report. Based on this report, we identified the patent firms with the largest growth or decline in 2020 in Patexia Insight 107 . This was a noteworthy year for both positive…
M & K HOLDINGS, INC. v. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. Before Moore, Bryson, and Chen. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Title-searchable publications shared on a prominent standards-setting organization’s website are printed…
Update: After publishing this article on October 7, 2020, several law firms reached out to confirm their actual patent prosecution revenue which helped us discover a bug in our model. The error had resulted in significant underestimation of patent revenue.…
Assigning a dollar amount to the entire patent prosecution market in the US has been something that kept our research team at Patexia quite busy for a while. Back in March, we reported that more than 3500 law firms had worked with over 110,000 companies to…
In XY v. Trans Ova Genetics, Inc., Appeal No. 2019-1789 (Fed. Cir. July 31, 2020) , a panel of Wallach, Plager and Stoll reversed the district court’s finding that claims to an improved method of cell sorting are patent ineligible under s. 101. The…
This decision, Appeal No. 2019-1149 (Fed. Cir. April 17th 2020) should have required about 13 pages and could have ended after the first paragraph under Section A. Instead, a split panel required a 23 page majority decision and a 10 page dissent, largely…
Coronavirus and its global impact have affected almost every sector of the economy. With all of the job losses and the continued lockdown in more than 80% of US cities, at this point, it is clear we are in one of the worst recessions in recent decades.…
Today, a divided Fed. Cir. panel reversed the district court’s decision invalidating the claim of two Illumina patents, U.S. Pat. Nos. 9,580,751 and 9,738,931, as directed to a natural phenomenon (Illumina, Inc. v. Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc., Appeal…
