by Christine Stackhouse | Sep 8, 2025
Counsel Daniel Passeser authored the article titled, “Recent Developments in Challenges to Seizures by the Manhattan DA’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit” for Westlaw Today. Daniel discusses a recent court ruling that created a road map for museums and...
by Christine Stackhouse | Aug 19, 2025
Subject matter eligibility (SME) is a requirement for patentability grounded in 35 U.S.C. § 101, which permits patenting of “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.” However, the courts...
by Christine Stackhouse | Aug 13, 2025
Partner Jolie Apicella authored the article titled, “Esteras Restricts Consideration of Past Offenses in Revocation Hearings” for the New York Law Journal. Jolie unpacks the Supreme Court’s decision Esteras v. U.S. and explores its implications for white collar...
by Christine Stackhouse | Jul 1, 2025
Inventions claimed in a patent must meet a threshold subject matter eligibility (SME) requirement imposed by the U.S. patent laws.[1] The Supreme Court’s two-step Alice test provides a framework for analyzing whether a claimed invention passes the SME threshold.[2] If...
by Christine Stackhouse | Jun 30, 2025
On June 23, 2025, U.S. District Judge Alsup of the Northern District of California issued a decision in the high-profile lawsuit brought by several authors against Anthropic, the AI developer of the Claude chatbot. The authors accused Anthropic of copyright...
