Agilent Interference Analysis, PTO’s Lack of Rulemaking Authority Reaffirmed

Any doubt lingering from its 2009 Agilent decision about the proper approach for analyzing patent interference priority cases was erased as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Jan. 5 that a district court abused its discretion by…

Obama Announces $2.3 Billion in Tax Credits to Fund Clean Energy Manufacturing Projects

WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Obama Jan. 8 announced that $2.3 billion in tax credits under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Pub. Law. No. 111-05) had been awarded to fund 183 clean energy manufacturing projects in…