Top tier law firm experience with small firm efficiency and cost.
Joined August 2021
- Tweets343
- Following1.9K
- Followers994
- Likes19
Question of the Week: Shouldn’t courts presume that the misappropriation of another’s trade secrets causes irreparable harm? #questionoftheweek mass.gov/doc/daikin-applied-…
Question of the Week: In view of the Supreme Court’s cert denial in Google v. VirtaMove, will the PTO increase its number of discretionary denials, which have significantly decreased of late? #questionoftheweek supremecourt.gov/orders/cour…
Question of the Week: What can be done to counteract the pervasive false narrative that patent owners are bad actors? #questionoftheweek ipwatchdog.com/2026/10/12/ba…
Question of the Week: Now that the Supreme Court has denied cert yet again in a case concerning patent eligibility, do you think the problem created by the Supreme Court 14 years ago will ever be fixed? #questionoftheweek supremecourt.gov/orders/cour…
Question of the Week: How do you protect privileged and confidential information when using AI systems? #questionoftheweek
Please join Wendy Verlander at the CSU Law IP+ Conference this Friday. She will focus on how inventors and small companies should approach patents, particularly monetization. law.csuohio.edu/newsevents/i…
Question of the Week: What are the odds that the $5.7B awarded to Taction against Apple will withstand appeal? #questionoftheweek
Question of the Week: Rumor has it that Director Squires will no longer be making IPR institution decisions. Will that affect institution rates? #questionoftheweek
Question of the Week: Why should a patent owner lose the right to claim damages for an infringer’s past infringement because a previous infringer would not agree to mark their products? #questionoftheweek cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-o…
Question of the Week: In view of Director Squires' recent institution of eight IPRs, six concerning the same parties, has the PTO changed course on discretionary denials? #questionoftheweek
Question of the Week: Do patent owners have the right to exclude others from using their inventions after eBay? #questionoftheweek cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-o…
Question of the Week: Do you think AI is improving patent quality? #questionoftheweek ipwatchdog.com/2026/08/18/ai…
Question of the Week: Shouldn’t it be sufficient that a provisional application describe the subject matter being relied upon as prior art to get the benefit of the provisional filing date as the date of the prior art? #questionoftheweek cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-o…
Question of the Week: Should obvious-type double patenting rejections be based on anti-harassment alone when no term-extension concern is apparent? #questionoftheweek uspto.gov/sites/default/file…
Question of the Week: How is the departure of Coke Morgan Stewart going to affect the PTB’s analysis of “settled expectations” in IPR institution decisions? #questionoftheweek
Question of the Week: The PTO will be requiring ex parte reexamination filers to identify all real parties in interest. But, since it will allow those RPIs to remain confidential, how will a patentee know whether an estoppel applies? #questionoftheweek federalregister.gov/document…
Question of the Week: The full Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing concerning PERA last week. Given that the Supreme Court has refused to take up patent eligibility since Alice, do you think Congress will finally fix this problem? #questionoftheweek judiciary.senate.gov/committ…
Question of the Week: If a claim element recites “code" and the function of that code, when wouldn’t that supply sufficient structure so as to avoid means-plus-function treatment? #questionoftheweek cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-o…
Question of the Week: In Ironburg v. Valve Corp, the CAFC narrowed the estoppel based on grounds an IPRreasonably could have raised. If it’s not based on whether the petitioner could have found the prior art, what is it based on? #questionoftheweek cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-o…
Question of the Week: The Supreme Court refused to hear Dolby Laboratories v. Unified Patents. What is the current right of patent owners to know the real parties in interest in IPRs? #questionoftheweek supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/2…