Charley Macedo to Introduce 2021 AUTM Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker

On March 15, partner Charley Macedo will introduce the 2021 AUTM Annual Meeting opening plenary session and keynote speaker, astronaut Ellen Ochoa.   Ellen Ochoa is the first Hispanic woman to go in space. She’s also an inventor and only the second female director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Ochoa will discuss the resonant issues […]

ARE PTAB Alert: The PTAB Newly Designates Two Precedential Decisions

On December 17, 2020, the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) designated two decisions as precedential where, after the evaluation of the Fintiv factors, inter partes review (“IPR”) of a patent was instituted while there were pending litigations in district courts. In determining whether to exercise discretion to deny institution under 35 U.S.C. § […]