Worldwide: Patent

The shoe is on the other foot for Crocs following a recent Board of Appeal decision in which it was determined that prior designs showing only a left shoe did not take away the novelty of the registered design...

In a notable early move as Under Secretary of Commerce and USPTO Director, John Squires has vacated a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision that had introduced a new § 101 rejection against a DeepMind patent application on machine-learning methods (Ex parte Desjardins, Appeal 2024-000567, App. 16/319,040).

The UPC Court of Appeal (CoA) has held that when considering the liability of managing directors for the infringement of a patent by their companies...