Scott Graham digests the latest developments on everything IP and helps make sense of the trends, data, and politics around patents.
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By Scott Graham | January 27, 2023
My nine years on the IP bus got off to a bumpy start, but encouragement from all of you has made it an exhilarating journey.
By Scott Graham | January 20, 2023
Mark Lemley's argument about design patent obviousness and the Supreme Court's KSR decision fell short of a win, but has served to raise the profile of the issue.
By Scott Graham | January 13, 2023
Judges Tiffany Cunningham and Leonard Stark started out their careers being deferential to their colleagues during oral arguments, as is often expected of junior judges. More recently they've been speaking up.
By Scott Graham | January 6, 2023
Andrei Iancu is scheduled to step to the lectern Wednesday in a patent infringement action against Red Hat, Dell, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and others. He'll be facing Kirkland & Ellis' John O'Quinn.
By Scott Graham | December 16, 2022
Western District Chief Judge Orlando Garcia cooled off the patent party in Waco last July, but may have restarted it just before his term ended last month.
By Scott Graham | December 9, 2022
Three Federal Circuit judges pushed back substantively and procedurally on the notion of overruling the 40-year-old Rosen test for design patent obviousness. But one acknowledged that it "seems inconsistent" with the Supreme Court's KSR decision.
By Scott Graham | December 2, 2022
The judge fired a massive salvo in his campaign to pull back the curtain on litigation funding generally and on patent monetization company IP Edge in particular.
By Scott Graham | November 10, 2022
Shaw Keller partner Andrew Russell described the hearing into Lamplight Licensing, Nimitz Technologies and Mellaconic IP as "one of the most remarkable hearings I've seen in a patent case."
By Scott Graham | November 4, 2022
It's Term Jeff Lamken at the Supreme Court as the MoloLamken partner persuades the court to grant cert in cases of patent enablement and trademark extraterritoriality.
By Scott Graham | October 28, 2022
Latham & Watkins associate Tiffany Weston had just 24 hours to hop on a plane, fly coast to coast, and make her first argument in a federal courtroom. A week later Meta Platforms was out of the case.
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