Key Takeaway: The Supreme Court denied certiorari of the D.C. Circuit’s holding that works created entirely by autonomous AI systems are categorically ineligible for copyright under the Copyright Act. Thus, even…

Key Takeaways: Recent Federal Circuit decision draws a meaningful distinction between patents that claim a broad genus as the invention itself and those that claim a novel therapeutic method using…

Key Takeaway: The FDA is developing a “plausible mechanism framework” to facilitate approval of individualized therapies for the treatment of rare genetic diseases that currently face approval challenges. As discussed previously…

ASCENDIS PHARMA A/S v. BIOMARIN PHARMACEUTICAL INC. Before Lourie, Chen, and Stoll.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary:  A respondent in an…

IRONSOURCE LTD. v. DIGITAL TURBINE, INC. Before Moore, Lourie, and Reyna. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: An appellant seeking to establish Article III standing based on…

Protaryx Medical, a Maryland-based company dedicated to “minimally invasive left-heart interventional therapies,” announced that its Transseptal Puncture Device received 510(k) clearance from the FDA. Transseptal puncture is designed to enable access to…

Key Takeaways: Hybron Technologies, a U.S. based Manufacturing company focused on lightweight composites for aerospace and defense applications, closes an oversubscribed $25M seed round. The increased need for domestic production…

Key Takeaway: The NRC’s proposed streamlined DOE/DOD reactor licensing pathway includes public disclosure obligations that can constitute prior art to later filed patent applications, and that raise potential inventorship issues,…

Key Takeaways: Interference proceedings, though increasingly rare, are heavily evidence-based and determine which party is the first inventor when two or more applicants claim the same patentable invention. Sometimes, an…

According to a press release, Stryker Corporation recently “experienced a cybersecurity attack which resulted in a global disruption to Stryker’s (internal, corporate) Microsoft environment.” A cyberterrorist organization, Handala, reportedly claimed responsibility…