The Federal Circuit hears seven patent appeals on Monday, November 2, before two panels sitting at 10 a.m. The full lineup is on the Federal Circuit argument calendar - a tool I am testing in alpha.

Eight en banc petitions are pending at the Federal Circuit, though two are pro se. The court makes pretty quick work of petitions and so the list has turned over almost completely since my July post.

The wait for a first action on the merits (FAOM) has eased a bit over the past year, but the numbers are still about seven months over target. Most recently, the average application waited about 21 ...

I’m excited to announce my new book – Building the Internet We Want: Law for a Connected World, which is now available via Amazon (Hardcover $29 or Kindle $13)! Internet law has changed so quickly ...

I have been looking at patent applications that appear to be lost within the USPTO digital files. A common pattern is abandonment, followed by revival on petition, but then the file is apparently ...

In my post on Monday, I created a time series chart showing the average/median wait time for utility patent applications from filing to the first action on the merits. But, that office-wide average ...

Barron v. United States, Nos. 2025-1179, -1459 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 22, 2026). This is not a patent case, but decisions from the Court of Federal Claims are also appealed to the Federal Circuit -- making ...

Range of Motion's cert petition, due Dec. 21, will challenge the plainly dissimilar test and judicial functionality findings for design patents.

The USPTO has quietly rolled out substantial changes to its examiner Performance Appraisal Plan (PAP) for FY2026. PAP is the formal framework the USPTO uses to measure, evaluate, and rate patent ...

FedEx has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether any court can make the Patent Office follow 35 U.S.C. § 312(a)(2), the requirement that an IPR petitioner identify “all real parties in interest.” ...

I started pulling at a loose bristle this week and ended up doing a deep dive into the history of the American toothbrush. I came across a Library of Congress explanation that H.N. Wadsworth of ...

The case stems from the dispute between Ericsson and Lenovo over licenses to their respective portfolios of patents essential to the 5G wireless telecommunications standards (standards-essential ...