Authored by Babak Akhlaghi on September 6, 2025. September 1st marked the end of an era in patent law. The USPTO just made it nearly impossible to challenge patents the easy way. Rule 42.104(b)(4) enforcement means IPR petitioners must now identify exactly where each claim […]
KNOW MOREAuthored by Babak Akhlaghi on May 8, 2025. In Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp. et al., Case No. 23-2437 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2025) (Dyk, Prost, Goldberg, JJ.), the Federal Circuit held that applying conventional machine learning methods to a new data environment are […]
KNOW MOREAuthored by Babak Akhlaghi on March 26, 2025. The Federal Circuit, in the consolidated cases of AliveCor, Inc. v. Apple Inc., Case Nos. 2023-1512, 2023-1513, and 2023-1514 (Fed. Cir. March 7, 2025), affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) findings that AliveCor’s three patents were […]
KNOW MOREAuthored by Babak Akhlaghi on August 27, 2024. In the world of patent law, clarity is key. Building on my takeaways from the In re Cellect decision last year, a recent Federal Circuit case, Allergan USA, Inc. v. MSN Laboratories Private Ltd., No. 2024-1061 (Fed. […]
KNOW MOREBy Babak Akhlaghi on March 4, 2024. To secure a patent, an invention must be both novel and non-obvious. While demonstrating novelty is relatively straightforward—simply proving that the invention doesn’t exist in any previous patents or publications—the test for obviousness presents a greater challenge. Applicants […]
KNOW MOREBy Babak Akhlaghi on January 5, 2024. On December 21, 2023, The United States Patent and Trademark Office launched a new program called the “Pre-Prosecution Pilot” to assist first-time inventors. This program aims to help these inventors to assess the strength of their invention and […]
KNOW MOREBy Babak Akhlaghi on December 8, 2023. In my previous post, I walked you through the typical journey of a patent application, from its inception to the examination phase. As I mentioned, due to a backlog at the USPTO, it can take a couple of […]
KNOW MOREBy Babak Akhlaghi on November 9, 2023. The Journey of Patentability – Novelty, Non-Obviousness, and the Quest for Uniqueness In order for an invention to be patentable under the US patent regime, it must be both novel and non-obvious. Novelty, in this context, refers to […]
KNOW MOREBy Babak Akhlaghi on October 25, 2023. In In re Cellect, LLC, No. 2022-1293 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 28, 2023), the Federal Circuit held that an obviousness-type double patenting (“ODP”) analysis should be based on the expiration date of a patent with any granted PTA added. […]
KNOW MOREBy Babak Akhlaghi on October 4, 2023. In Free Stream Media Corp. v. Alphonso Inc., Case No. 19-1506 (Fed. Cir. May 11, 2021) (Reyna, J.), the Federal Circuit held claims toward a system for delivering relevant advertisements to a mobile phone user based on data […]
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