Ex parte appeals (or “appeals”) provide a rare opportunity for applicants to involve new decision-makers to independently assess the quality of pending rejections. However, a substantial disadvantage of appeals is that they introduce a sizable prosecution delay. The average delay between a time at which an appeal is received at the Patent and Trademark [...]
There are lot more activity awareness around intellectual property in both large and medium size companies. A couple of years back even large automotive companies and urban industrial houses did not really care much about protecting their intellectual property. Simultaneously the academic institutions are both aware and promoting IP creation. The corporations are realizing [...]
If piracy is still very much a concern of the music industry, the growing shadow of free online streaming platforms, in particular YouTube has now become bigger stinger, according to speakers from the industry at an event at world intellectual property organization. Hiding behind safe harbor legislation originally designed to protect internet services providers [...]
Typical artificial intelligence (AI) systems suffer from an amnesiac like flaw of failing to retain knowledge acquired through previous tasks. With each new task assigned to an AI system, previous lessons would need to be learned all over again. By overcoming this issue of “catastrophic forgetting” as some call it, this new AI can [...]
The USPTO’s Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) meets today (May 4) for its quarterly meeting. One of the interesting bits of information is presented below as part of the USPTO’s review of 10,000+ office actions. The information here is helpful, but is severely lacking because it does not separate Type 1 and Type 2 [...]
Indeed, the Code of Conduct for Article III Judges of the United States has specific provisions that would seem to absolutely prohibit a judge from handling a case where a litigant is a former client. Some may argue, perhaps correctly, that at some point any conflict requiring disqualification that might have existed as the [...]
