Eileen McDermott

The U.S. Supreme Court today invited the Solicitor General (SG) to weigh in on a case about internet service provider (ISP) liability for infringement and denied another petition for certiorari asking the Court to clarify U.S. patent eligibility law.

One week after markup was postponed to give those with concerns more time to get on board, and following several previously postponed markup hearings, the PREVAIL Act has now moved from the Senate Judiciary Committee to the Senate floor for a full vote.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today published a final rule announcing across-the-board fee increases of 7.5% but scrapping the most controversial proposals from its April 2024 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).

During a scheduled markup hearing of three key patent bills today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE) announced they would delay consideration of two key patent reform bills, while another, the IDEA Act, moved forward.

The UK Supreme Court today held that the England and Wales Court of Appeal was wrong to overturn a 2020 High Court decision that found Sky Ltd. had acted in bad faith when applying for the mark SKY in categories of goods and services it never intended to put on the market.

A brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday urged the Justices to deny a petition to the Court contending the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has made a habit of making factual findings of its own rather than merely discussing and analyzing the district court’s findings, as it is required.

On the heels of Donald Trump's election win last week, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal today announced on her personal LinkedIn page that she has internally informed the USPTO staff she will be resigning from her post as of the second week in December.

In the immediate wake of such an historic election, it is far too early to know what the intellectual property landscape will really be like under a second Trump Administration, but these IP experts have some initial educated predictions and thoughts.

As the United States gears up for the 2024 presidential election in two days, many in the IP community have been asking who would be better for IP rights?

Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI) sent a letter On Tuesday, October 29, to the U.S. Copyright Office asking for an update on the Office’s multi-part report on the impact of artificial inteliigence (AI) on copyright law.