Patent Law

En Banc Federal Circuit To Rehear Tafas v. Doll
Tafas v. Doll (en Banc) The Federal Circuit has granted Tafas & GSK?s petition for a rehearing en banc. This case focuses on the USPTO?s power to impliment rules restricting the number of ways an applicant can claim a single...

Tafas v. Doll (En Banc Suggestion)
Tafas v. Doll (En Banc Suggestion) Both Tafas and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have filed petitions for en banc rehearing asking the Federal Circuit to stop the US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) from implementing any of its proposed rules on continuations...

Tafas Requests Rehearing En Banc in PTO Rules Case
From two June 4, 2009 posts by Matt Osenga at his Inventive Step blog: One of the plaintiffs in the PTO rules case, Dr. Tafas, has filed a combined petition for the Federal Circuit panel to rehear the case, or...

Tafas v. Doll: Continuation Limits Invalid; Limits on Claims and RCEs are OK
Tafas v. Doll (Fed. Cir. 2009) The PTO has attempted to implement new rules that limit both the number of continuation applications that may be filed and the number of claims that may be included within each application...

Tafas v. Doll: War Without End
The saga of the PTO?s rulemaking authority continued on March 20, 2009 when the Federal Circuit issued its 55 page decision in Tafas v. Doll holding that aside from the rule limiting continuations, the other rule changes were procedural in nature and the PTO does have the rule-making authority to implement the rules limiting the [...

Is Louisiana working on its Kennedy rehearing petition Will Gov. Jindal stay true to his word
According to SCOTUS Rule 44, a party has 25 days to petition the Supreme Court for rehearing, which means Louisiana now less than two weeks to file a rehearing petition in the Kennedy child rape case...

Tafas v. Doll: Preparing for the End
The saga of the PTO?s rulemaking authority continued on March 20, 2009 when the Federal Circuit issued its 55 page decision in Tafas v. Doll holding that aside from the rule limiting continuations, the other rule changes were procedural in nature and the PTO does have the rule-making authority to implement the rules limiting the [...

Rehearing Petition Filed in Marriage Cases
What a surprise!  A petition for rehearing was filed today in In re Marriage Cases.  The petition was filed by the Proposition 22 Legal Defense And Education Fund, but I can’t find the petition on the web anywhere.

7th Circuit Court of Appeals Dismisses Petition For Panel Rehearing That Only Argued New Issue
After Ms. Easley lost her appeal in the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, she moved for an en banc rehearing. But her petition did not follow Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 35, which requires a statement of one of two things: (1) that the opinion of the appellate court is in conflict with an opinion of the U...

Procedural Kowtow
The CAFC considers most everything a matter of law. Substance/facts are a legal inconvenience best boxed so that the entire container can be subject to rule-of-law disposition. With that mindset firmly entrenched, a confusion between substance and procedure is natural...

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