The U.S. is Becoming Continuation Nation

Using USPTO bulk data for patents granted between 1976 and Jan 9, 2018, I extracted each patent’s earliest priority date and then used those dates…

Apple Files a Bonkers Number of PTAB Petitions

In my last post I looked at various metrics for assignees and patent owners of patents challenged at the PTAB. Today I decided to turn the tables…

Will the real parties in interest at the PTAB please stand up?

I recently came across the Lex Machina PTAB report discussing patent owners at the PTAB (they keep it behind a registration link, but you can…

Indefinite under IPXL rejections are all nonsense (or are they?)

I recently came across MasterMine Software, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., (summarized here and here) and thought to myself “Did we really need another Fed. Cir.…