It has been almost six months since the release of the 2019 Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance, so I decided to check in and try to…
For us patent prosecutors, whether to file an appeal brief or an RCE is a decision we have to make more often than soup or…
Update April 2019: You can now lookup your examiner’s AFCP stats in BigPatentData Examiner Analytics. The After Final Consideration Pilot Program (AFCP) 2.0 has again…
I was running the numbers for a breakdown of what events occur after a reply brief (for a next week’s post — don’t forget to…
I recently came across MasterMine Software, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., (summarized here and here) and thought to myself “Did we really need another Fed. Cir.…