Event Spotlight: Brian Amos and Charley Macedo to Speak at LES Annual Meeting on Best Practices in Licensing Data and Software for AI/ML Applications

On September 27 at 1pm to 2pm ET, Brian Amos and Charley Macedo, along with other panelists will speak about "Best Practices in Licensing Data and Software for AI/ML Applications" at the LES Annual Meeting. The program will be held virtually this year.  Charley’s co-panelists include Daniel Dardani from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dinesh […]

ARE Copyright Alert: Supreme Court Holds Google’s Use of Oracle’s Java API Packages Constitutes Fair Use Under 17 U.S.C. § 107

On April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court finally addressed the longstanding dispute between Google and Oracle over Google’s alleged copyright infringement of JAVA’s declaring code, which is a type of software code. In a 6-2 split decision in which Justice Barrett did not participate, the Court (per Justice Breyer) found that Google’s literal copying […]

NYIPLA PTAB Committee Meeting With USPTO Officials Available to Watch

At the May 4 meeting of the of the PTAB Committee of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA), a distinguished group of USPTO officials, including Administrative Patent Judge Amanda Wieker, from the PTAB and Kimberly Weinreich and Steven Fulk from the USPTO, gave an ethics presentation on patent bar admission at the USPTO, […]

PTAB Alert: USPTO Issues Interim Procedure Giving Director More Control Over PTAB Final Written Decisions in Accordance with Supreme Court’s Arthrex Decision

On June 29, 2021, the USPTO released information regarding an interim Director review process implemented in response to the Supreme Court’s opinion in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., Nos. 19-1434, 19-1452, 19-1458, 594 U.S. ____, slip op. (U.S. June 21, 2021), which held that in order for PTAB administrative patent judges (“APJs”) to be properly […]

Event Spotlight: Explore PTAB Successes, Outcomes and Results with Docket Navigator and the NYIPLA’s PTAB Committee

Please join the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA)’s PTAB Committee on June 1 to review PTAB statistics provided by Docket Navigator. In this interactive presentation, PTAB Committee co-chairs Charley Macedo and Ken Adamo along with coordinator Chris Lisiewski and other members will explore PTAB statistics provided by Docket Navigator, including: Yearly analysis of […]

Event Spotlight: NYIPLA PTAB Committee and Young Lawyers Committee to Examine PTAB Trial Milestones at July 6 Meeting

Join the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) PTAB Committee and Young Lawyers Committee on July 6 to examine Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Trial Milestones. In this interactive presentation, PTAB Committee co-chair Charley Macedo, coordinator Chris Lisiewski, and other members of the PTAB Committee along with Young Lawyers Committee co-chair Jenna Deneault […]