Ryan Davis

Mylan has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a rule under which the Patent Trial and Appeal Board can refuse to review patents due to pending district court litigation, saying the policy flouts the law, unfairly bars patent challenges and “has resulted in chaos.”

Moderna announced on Friday that it has delayed pursuing a patent on its COVID-19 vaccine while it disputes the National Institutes of Health’s contention that the agency’s scientists should be added as co-inventors, which could give the government greater control over the vaccine.

The lengthy string of challenges to the constitutionality of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board appears set to continue after a dissent by a Federal Circuit judge on Wednesday identified another potential flaw in the board that seems likely to spur more litigation, attorneys say.

A company whose video patents were invalidated in inter partes reviews requested by Amazon has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that it is unconstitutional for the same Patent Trial and Appeal Board panel to both institute reviews and issue final decisions.

The Federal Circuit on Friday refused to stay a controversial decision invalidating part of a car driveshaft patent for claiming a natural law while patentee American Axle & Manufacturing appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, though one judge said she believes there’s a “fair probability” the justi…

The Western District of Texas quickly became one of the nation’s busiest courts for patent cases in 2019 after a former Bracewell litigator took the bench in Waco and began encouraging patentees to file suits there, and the influx of new cases shows no signs of slowing.

A Virginia federal judge ruled Thursday that artificial intelligence cannot be listed as an inventor on a patent application, holding that the Patent Act makes clear that inventing is the exclusive legal province of human beings.

Appealing a decision that erased its $1.1 billion victory in a cancer therapy case, a Bristol-Myers unit told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday the Federal Circuit’s requirement that patents demonstrate “possession” of an invention flouts the law and is often “simply impossible to meet.”

The Federal Circuit on Friday rejected a researcher’s bid to name an artificial intelligence machine he created as an inventor on two patents, ruling that the Patent Act is unambiguous that only human beings qualify as inventors.

The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled Friday that a patent licensing company controlled by attorneys from Russ August & Kabat cannot sue NetApp over a former Nokia patent, saying the case is barred due to a separate license agreement with RPX Corp.