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Blake Schmidt recently published an interesting article in IPLS Proceedings published by the State Bar of Michigan.  Blake explained an important rule change proposed by...

Scott Hogan contributed an Expert Analysis Chapter to the 12th Edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide: Patents 2020, published by Global Legal Group Ltd....

The State Bar of Michigan recently published an article written by Colin Cicotte titled “What is Eligible to be Patented?” in the IP issue of...

Scott Hogan and James Stevens Jr. collaborated to write a chapter for publication in the IAM Innovation & Invention Yearbook 2021. Their chapter, entitled “Functional...

Corey M. Beaubien authored a chapter in The International Comparative Legal Guide to Patents 2020, 10th edition, released in the fall. Corey M. Beaubien authored...

A New Fault Line in the Modern Era of U.S. Patent Eligibility, first published as an expert chapter in the 11th edition of the ICLG...

[btx_image image_id=”1743″ link=”/” position=”center”][/btx_image] Scott Hogan contributed a chapter to The International Comparative Legal Guide to Patents 2019, 9th edition. The chapter is entitled Can...

[btx_image image_id=”1171″ link=”/” position=”center”][/btx_image] Patent Confidential — On-Sale Bar and Secret Sales in America Invents Act Era, this article first appeared in IAM Yearbook: Building...

[btx_image image_id=”1169″ link=”/” position=”center”][/btx_image] After a lifetime of deference to utility patents, in recent years design patents in the United States are enjoying a place...

[btx_image image_id=”1161″ link=”/” position=”center”][/btx_image] Method Claiming in the United States: The Who, What, and Where of Enforcement by Scott A. Hogan and Shannon K. Smith,...

[btx_image image_id=”1171″ link=”https://www.inhouselawyer.co.uk/practice-areas/intellectual-property/united-states-intellectual-property-2/” position=”center”][/btx_image] The United States chapter for “The Legal 500: Intellectual Property Country Comparative Guide“, by Matthew J. Schmidt and E. Colin Cicotte...

Functional Claiming of Inventions and Related Issues of Indefiniteness, by James D. Stevens Jr., published in the University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, Volume 94,...

[btx_image image_id=”1169″ link=”/” position=”center”][/btx_image] Corey M. Beaubien and Jeffrey L. Doyle co-authored an article “At the Intersection of U.S. Patent Laws and Autonomous Vehicles: A...

The great divide—sorting out method claims and multiple actors by E. Colin Cicotte and Scott A. Hogan, first appeared in IAM Yearbook: Building IP value...

[btx_image image_id=”1164″ link=”/” position=”center”][/btx_image] The Supreme Court Gets Intellectual: A look at how the Court is reshaping IP law in significant ways by Corey M....

Making Sense of Non(ce)sense—Seeking Broad Claim Coverage and Avoiding Unwanted Means-Plus-Function Treatment by Corey M. Beaubien and Scott A. Hogan, BNA’s Patent, Trademark & Copyright...

Patent Eligibility and Medical Diagnostic and Treatment Methods: Principles to Apply by Corey M. Beaubien and Shannon K. Smith, BNA’s Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal,...

To Mark or Not to Mark—The Past and Present State of Patent Marking and False Marking by Corey M. Beaubien, Intellectual Property Today, January 2014...