PTO Eliminates Duplicate Compliance Review of Inter Partes Reexamination Appeal Briefs

Three months after announcing a change in procedure to streamline ex parte reexaminations, the Patent and Trademark Office turned its attention to inter partes contests and…

Obama Signs Bill Increasing PTO Funding in FY 2010, But Experts Say Not Enough

President Barack Obama signed into law on Aug. 10 a bill, (H.R. 5874, Pub. L. No. 111-224) that authorizes the appropriation of up to $129 million in…

Senate Passes Bill Increasing PTO Funding in FY 2010; President’s Signature Expected

The U.S. Senate passed by unanimous consent July 29 a bill, H.R. 5874, that authorizes the appropriation of $129 million in supplemental funding for…

PTO Issues Multi-Factor Guidance for Determining Patent Eligibility Following Supreme Court’s Bilski Decision

Four weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bilski decision, the Patent and Trademark Office issued guidance July 27 to patent examiners in the form of…

Obama Requests PTO Use All FY 2010 Fees; Subcommittee Approves FY 2011 Budget Request

The Patent and Trademark Office received two promising pieces of news from the political sphere recently, as President Obama requested that Congress allow the agency to…

PTO Proposes ‘Three-Track’ Prioritized, Traditional, and Delayed Patent Examination

Under a program proposed June 4 by the Patent and Trademark Office, patent applicants would be able to choose from three tracks——prioritized, traditional, and…

Retired Chief Judge Michel Sounds Off on Patent Reform, Congressional Neglect in BNA Interview

On the occasion of his May 31 retirement after more than 22 years on the bench, Chief Judge Paul R. Michel vowed to let his views be known about the shape of the patent system in…

Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce Department Release Report Linking Patent Reform to Economic Growth

The U.S. Department of Commerce published a white paper April 13 supporting congressional patent reform efforts as a job-creation and economic growth vehicle, “key priorities for the Obama Administration…”

PTO and U.K. IP Office Team up to Reduce Global Patent Backlogs

The Patent and Trademark Office and the U.K. Intellectual Property Office agreed March 10 to develop an action plan for reducing patent processing backlogs in…

District Court Hears Oral Arguments in Case Challenging Gene Patent Constitutionality

Patent eligibility under Section 101 of the Patent Act took center stage Feb. 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of…

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