Resources

§101 Today

• USPTO October 2019 Patent Eligibility Guidance Update (issued October 17, 2019)
• Appendices and Examples
• The 2019 Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance (issued January 7, 2019)
• Berkheimer v. HP Inc., 881 F.3d 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2018)
• Berkheimer v. HP Inc., 890 F.3d 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2018) (denial of rehearing en banc, concurring and dissenting opinions)
• American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, 939 F.3d 1355 (2019)

Innovative Case Management

• Patent Case Management Judicial Guide (3rd ed. 2016)
• Search and Social Media Partners, LLC v Facebook, Inc., et al, 17cv1120,et al-LPS-CJB, Section 101 Hearing Transcript (Feb. 8, 2019)
• Search and Social Media Partners v. Facebook, Inc., Order Setting Hearing (D. Del. Nov. 16, 2018)
• Order Governing Proceedings – Patent Case (W.D. Tex.)
• Proposed Scheduling Order for U.S. District Judge Albright
• Standing Order In Re Trial Proceedings (W.D. Tex. July 17, 2019)
• Standing Order Regarding Notice Of Readiness In Patent Cases (W.D. Tex. Aug. 7, 2019)
• Standing Order Regarding Waco Court Docket Management (W.D. Tex. Aug. 5, 2019)

Third Party Interests

• Ventex Co., Ltd. v. Columbia Sportswear N. Am., Inc. (PTAB Jan. 24, 2019)
• AIT v. RPX (Fed. Cir 2018)
• WesternGeco v. ION Geophysical (Fed. Cir 2018)
• Worlds v. Bungie (Fed. Cir 2018)
• Wi-Fi One v. Broadcom (Fed. Cir. Jan. 8, 2018)
• Wi-Fi One v. Broadcom (Fed. Cir. April 20, 2018)
• Unified Patents, Real Party-in-Interest (RPI) Decisions (update Sept 18, 2019)

International Litigation Strategy and Coordination

• Brian Beck, Jason Wejnert and William C Spence, Global patent litigation strategy, IAM (2018)

§112 – Enablement 

• Amgen v. Sanofi (Fed. Cir 2017)
• Amgen petition and briefs collected at SCOTUSblog
• Idenix Pharmaceuticals v. Gilead Sciences (Fed. Cir. 2019)
• Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals v. Actavis Laboratories (Fed. Cir. 2019)
• Nuvo Pharmaceuticals. v. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (Fed. Cir. 2019)
• Press Release, Sens. Tillis and Coons and Reps. Collins, Johnson, and Stivers Release Draft Bill Text to Reform Section 101 of the Patent Act (May 22, 2019) (includes text of draft bill)
• The State of Patent Eligibility in America, Hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property: Part I – June 4, 2019 Part II – June 5, 2019 Part III – June 11, 2019
• USPTO Patent Examination Manual, Section 2164 – The Enablement Requirement

Antitrust

• FTC v. Qualcomm, Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law (N.D. Cal. May 21, 2019)

Licensing and Transactions

• Joe Siino, “Going global” Intellectual Property Magazine (July 1, 2019)

Must Inventors Be Human? And Other Questions About AI

• Yoon Chae, “Passing the AI Test,” Intellectual Property Magazine (February 2019)
• USPTO, Request for Comments on Patenting Artificial Intelligence (8/27/19)

Damages 

• Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc., 136 S.Ct. 1923 (2016)
• SRI International, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., 930 F.3d 1295 (Fed. Cir. 2019)
• Summit 6, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., 802 F.3d 1283 (Fed. Cir. 2015)
• NDCal Patent Local Rules (January 2017)
• EDTX Local Rule 14-03 (Track B)
• DED-LPS Patent Form Scheduling Order 
• DED-LPS Patent Procedures

Attacking & Defending Imports at the ITC 

• Josh Pond, Lisa Pearson, Matthew Meyer, Back to the US ITC for Converse All Star Trade Marks, Managing IP (Feb. 2019)
• Matthew J. Meyer and Joshua B. Pond, The Emerging Role of the ITC in Pharmaceutical Disputes (June 2018)

PTAB: Precedent/Rules

• Aqua Products, Inc. v. Matal, 872 F.3d 1290 (Fed. Cir. 2017) 
• Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., No. 2018-2140 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 31, 2019)
• Bedgear, LLC v. Fredman Bros. Furniture Co. , No. 18-2082 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 7, 2019)
• NHK Spring Co., Ltd. v. Intri-Plex Techs., Inc., IPR2018-00752, Paper 8 (Sept. 12, 2018)
• Becton, Dickinson & Co. v. B. Braun Melsungen AG, IPR2017-01586, Paper 8 (Dec. 15, 2017)
• General Plastic Indus. Co. v. Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, IPR2016-01357 et al., Paper 19 (Sept. 6, 2017) 

• Sarah Jelsema, Andrew Mason & John Vandenberg, Using a Phillips Construction in all PTAB Trials: The Impact on District Court Patent Actions and PTAB Proceedings, 18 Chi. -Kent J. Intell. Prop. 1 (2019).
• Jennifer Esch, Paula Miller, Stacy Lewis & Tom Irving, Petitioner Estoppel from Patent Trial and Appeal Board Proceedings after SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu, 18 Chi. -Kent J. Intell. Prop. 10 (2019)
• United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Consolidated Trial Practice Guide (November 2019).
• Lectrosonics, Inc. v. Zaxcom, Inc., IPR2018-01129, Order – Information and Guidance on Motions to Amend, paper 15 (PTAB 2019) (precedential).
• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Rules of Practice To Allocate the Burden of Persuasion on Motions To Amend in Trial Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, 84 Fed. Reg. 56401 (October 22, 2019).
• United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Standard Operating Procedure 2 (revision 10),  Precedential Opinion Panel to Decide Issues of Exceptional Importance Involving Policy or Procedure 

Less Awareness, More Action: Real Change in Diversity And Inclusion

• Christine Simmons, 170 GCs Pen Open Letter to Law Firms: Improve on Diversity or Lose Our Business, Law.com (January 27, 2019) 
• Caroline Spiezio, Lawmakers Ask Big Tech for Their Outside Counsel’s Diversity Stats, Law.com (June 21, 2019) 
• Press Release, Reps. Cleaver, Butterfield, Kelly, Lee, Watson Coleman Seek Answers From Big Tech on Legal Diversity, Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (June 21, 2019) 
• Susan Kostal, Silicon Valley In-House Counsel Are Deadly Serious About Diversity and Inclusion, Attorney At Work (May 31, 2019) 
• Christopher Coble, How In-House Teams Area Holding Law Firms Accountable on Diversity and Inclusion, Logikcull (June 4, 2019) 
• BCG Attorney Search, Diversity in the Legal World – The Big Picture, BCG
• Meredith Hobbs, Talent or Token? Lawyers Say Diversity Still Can Be Just for Show, Law.com (March 28, 2019) 
• Debra Cassens Weiss, Law Firm Diversity is ‘good news/bad news story,’ says NALP executive director, ABA Journal (January 9, 2019) 
• Meghan Tribe, Inclusion Clause: GCs Are Threatening to Withhold Fees if Firms Fail to Staff Diverse teams. But Will It Work? And Is It Fair? Not Everyone Agrees, The American Lawyer (June 1, 2017)

Valuation, Prosecution, and Metrics

• Masoud Vakili, Patent Portfolio Valuations – Importance of IP and Patents (2017)
• Joseph Hadzima, Jr., How To Tell What Patents Are Worth (2013)

Willfulness and Waiver of Privilege

• Jeremy Taylor, Sarah Guske and Wayne Stacy, The New Reality Of Patent Trials Post-Halo, Law360 (November 13, 2018)

• Thermolife Int’l, LLC v. GNC Corp., Nos. 2018-1657, 2018-1666, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 13135 (Fed. Cir. May 1, 2019)
• Spineology, Inc. v. Wright Medical Technology, Inc. (Fed Cir. Dec. 14, 2018)

From Servers to Car Dealerships: Venue and Transfer

• In re Cray, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2017)
• Texas Federal Court Expected to See Big Increase in Patent Cases (April 2019)
• Shawn P. Miller, Venue One Year after TC Heartland: An Early Empirical Assessment of the Major Changes in Patent Filing, 52 Akron L. Rev. 763 (2018) 

Year in Review

• Mark Lemley, Andrew McCreary, & Tyler Robbins, RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PATENT LAW (FALL 2019) (UPDATED THROUGH 12/08/2019)