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Same Direction, Different Engines: FY2026 Utility and Design Grant Projections
3+ hour, 58+ min ago (243+ words) America's leading patent law source Although patents issue every Tuesday morning, the agency keeps its books on a fiscal year that closes September 30. Measured that way, FY2026 is the first full fiscal year under Director John Squires, who joined the Office…...
Pre-Negotiated: How Continuations and Art Units Shape the First-Action Allowance
15+ hour, 52+ min ago (114+ words) America's leading patent law source To continue reading, become a Patently-O member. Already a member? Simply log in to access the full post. Law Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law. View all posts by Dennis Crouch " Free…...
Has the Late-Continuation Surcharge Shifted Filing?
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (114+ words) America's leading patent law source To continue reading, become a Patently-O member. Already a member? Simply log in to access the full post. Law Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law. View all posts by Dennis Crouch " Free…...
Hooked on Differences: Design Patent Doctrine and Schedule A Litigation at the Federal Circuit
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (190+ words) America's leading patent law source The Easlick patent covers a TOTE HANGER. U. S. Design Patent No. D695, 526. Judge William Stickman (W. D. Pa.) identified three ornamental differences between the patented design and an accused Amazon listing, declared the designs plainly dissimilar, and never reached…...
What the Verdict Might Have Said: Jury Black Boxes in Ollnova v. ecobee
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (209+ words) America's leading patent law source The infringement case asserted claims from four different patents, but the jury was asked simply did the Plaintiff (patentee) prove "that ecobee, the Defendant, infringed ANY of the Asserted Claims of the Asserted Patents?"" As…...
Cheap Text, Expensive Claims: Fee Asymmetry and the Growing Patent Document
2+ week, 3+ day ago (156+ words) America's leading patent law source In 2008, I published a short empirical study showing that U. S. patents were growing in every dimension. Specifications were getting longer and claims were getting more numerous, and the two trends moved together. The story was simple:…...
Plain, Ordinary, and Unresolved: Woodway's Two-Front Claim Construction Fight
2+ week, 3+ day ago (209+ words) America's leading patent law source This week, I tuned in to oral arguments in Woodway v. Life CORE Fitness (Assault)." This is a pretty simple case and I'm hoping for a well written precedential opinion that I can use for teaching…...
Pay to Cite: Applicant Disclosures Drop After the January 2025 IDS Surcharge
2+ week, 4+ day ago (114+ words) America's leading patent law source To continue reading, become a Patently-O member. Already a member? Simply log in to access the full post. Law Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law. View all posts by Dennis Crouch " Free…...
The Myth of Patent Growth
3+ week, 1+ day ago (173+ words) America's leading patent law source The growth found in grey comes from two sources: Neither of these measure growth in domestic original inventive output. Note that timing wise, original applications published thus far in 2026 were almost all filed in 2024 (either…...
Revisiting Sixteen Years of "101 After a Data Correction
3+ week, 3+ day ago (149+ words) America's leading patent law source The chat here shows the corrected series (solid) against the original, pre-correction version (dashed). The two are nearly identical through early 2019 but then diverge afterward, with the gap widening through 2024 and 2025. To continue reading, become…...