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 18, 2025
On August 15, 2025, D.C. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan issued a preliminary injunction preventing the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) from implementing or enforcing the Civil Investigative Demand (“CID”) that it had issued to the left-wing watchdog journalism...
by Mallory Schowe | Aug 14, 2025
For insiders of publicly traded corporations, there are numerous Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regulations to follow and abide. One set of those regulations comes from Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“the Securities Act”), sometimes...
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 Jennifer Hill | Jul 29, 2025
In the recent precedential opinion, Colibri v. Medtronic,[1] the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) held that cancellation of a claim during patent prosecution can give rise to an estoppel effect on an issued patent claim which is separate from, but...
