by Christine Stackhouse | Jan 5, 2026
From fiscal year 2020 to January 2025, the backlog of unexamined U.S. patent applications rose by approximately 45%, from 576,103 to 837,928.[1] Meanwhile, the average time for a patent applicant to receive a first Office Action rose from 14.8 months to 22.6 months...
by Tori Staniewicz | Jan 5, 2026
The Banking Law Journal has published Partner Peter Lahny’s article, “Navigating Intercreditor Arrangements in Commodities and Trade Finance: A Practical Guide Part III,” the concluding article in his three‑part series on intercreditor issues in commodities and trade...
by Christine Stackhouse | Dec 12, 2025
On December 8th, the U.S. Supreme Court declined a petition to review, and therefore, let stand the April 2025 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp. The CAFC had held that patent claims that...
by Tori Staniewicz | Dec 2, 2025
Partner Peter J. Lahny IV’s article “Navigating Intercreditor Arrangements in Commodities and Trade Finance: A Practical Guide – Part II” was published by The Banking Law Journal. The second installment of this three-part series addresses key issues...
by Christine Stackhouse | Nov 26, 2025
Greetings, Court Fans! You may have noticed that we haven’t quite worked up the resolve to start summarizing all the Supreme Court’s activities on its interim-orders docket, despite the now imperceptibly fine line between many interim orders and merits opinions. In...
