The Federal Circuit’s September 25, 2026 AudienceScience decision explains why targeted-advertising claims failed Section 101—and why the patent owner forfeited its request to amend.
Copyright transfers and licenses may be terminable years later. Learn how Section 203 windows, notices, heirs, work-made-for-hire exclusions, and derivative works affect creators and copyright businesses.
A federal registration does not monitor or enforce itself. This 2026 trademark monitoring playbook explains how to watch USPTO records, the Trademark Official Gazette, marketplaces, social media, domains, maintenance deadlines, and potential TTAB conflicts.
The USPTO’s current guidance says AI-assisted inventions use the same inventorship standard as every other invention. Only humans can be inventors. Here is a practical 2026 workflow for documenting conception, ownership, and AI-assisted development.
The USPTO’s precedential Ex parte Baurin decision holds that anti-harassment and separate ownership can independently support obviousness-type double patenting even without patent-term extension—and the panel simultaneously questioned whether that rule should survive.
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