Help is on the Way!

Help is on the Way!

  These were the words from new USPTO director Andrei Iancu when I spoke to him last Thursday at the AIPLA Spring meeting in Seattle (Tangible IP was a sponsor).  I’ll come back to this in a minute. By now however, anyone who follows the IP world (even distantly)...
Has the tide just turned?

Has the tide just turned?

  First, the good news: last month, I commented about the trio of cases for the Federal District (which is the appeals division for all IP cases in the US) that seemed to open the first chink in the Alice armor. As a refresher, Alice is the US Supreme Court case...
Has the tide just turned?

Is Alice back in Wonderland?

In this wonderful world of intellectual property, a lot can happen in the course of a month and this last month between our newsletters is no exception. So, where do we start? Let’s maybe launch with the latest news that the Trump administration’s new trade war is now...