One Of A Few Of Our Favorite Patents
A Few Of Our Favorite Patents In what I hope will be a regular feature on this blog, here is one of my favorite patents based solely on this humorous drawing. This is Apple’s patent 9,986,419, which, according to PatentlyO, has the distinction of being the patent with the most prior-art-citations at 6,701 citations! This patent […]
USPTO what is “well-understood routine, and conventional” is not well understood
uspto what is “well-understood routine and conventional” is not well understood On April 19, the USPTO issued a memo with an update on subject matter eligibility guidance. The memo explains changes to Subject matter eligibility rejections based on recent case law (Berheimer & Aatrix). Determining that something is “well-understood, routine, and conventional” is a factual matter […]
Contumacious Conduct = $450,000 Attorney Fee Award
Contumacious Conduct = $450,000 Attorney Fee Award The line of attorney fee cases following Octane Fitness continues to grow. In Raniere v. Microsoft and AT&T (Fed. Cir. 2018), the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court case finding Raniere liable for attorney fees. In so doing, the court further established that district courts have discretion in attorney fee awards and […]
Office Action Grant Rate
Office Action Grant Rate Shine Su, has written an interesting paper on a new metric for patent examiner activity called the Office Action Grant Rate (OGR). You can find a summary of the paper and a link to the paper here. Overall, Shine discovered there is a wide range of OGR scores across examiners at the […]
