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by Dennis Crouch

The Federal Circuit denied rehearing today in Range of Motion Products, LLC v. Armaid Co., No. 23-2427 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 11, 2026), leaving in place the panel decision I

by Dennis Crouch

Dental Monitoring SAS v. Align Technology, Inc., No. 2025-1752 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 10, 2026)

Patent law cases often turn on timing. In our first-to-file system, the question often boils down to whet...

by Dennis Crouch

Director John Squires has issued another precedential decision, this time focusing on obviousness-type double patenting (ODP). In Ex parte Baurin, Appeal No. 2024-002920 (ARP Aug. 6, 2026), an Appeals Review P...

by Dennis Crouch

Director John Squires has been in office for about ten months, and the patent application allowance rate appears to be continuing its downward trend that began under Director Vidal.

A big caveat he...

by Dennis Crouch

A few years ago the USPTO created an AI-patent classifier that identifies AI related patent applications.  I used that classifier to update activity through 2026. No surprise, AI application receive substantially more 101 eligibility rejections than their non-AI counterparts. An example - among applications whose first office action came in 2025, 4...