FIRM NEWS
- Charles Bieneman Presents on 35 U.S.C. § 101 at AIPLACharlie Bieneman will present on 35 U.S.C. § 101 at the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Virtual Annual Meeting Pre-Meeting, Partnering in Patents, on October 20, 2020. … Read More »Charles Bieneman Presents on 35 U.S.C. § 101 at AIPLA
- Bejin Bieneman presents an introduction to IP law at Oakland University Society of Women Engineers and The National Society of Black EngineersBejin Bieneman PLC will present an IP law informational event with Oakland University Society of Women Engineers and The National Society of Black Engineers. The event will provide… Read More »Bejin Bieneman presents an introduction to IP law at Oakland University Society of Women Engineers and The National Society of Black Engineers
- Bejin Bieneman PLC Participates in Street Law Diversity Pipeline ProgramSouthfield, MI – Eighteen students from Southfield High School for Arts and Technology had the opportunity to participate in a workshop featuring interactive learning about what lawyers do,… Read More »Bejin Bieneman PLC Participates in Street Law Diversity Pipeline Program
- Bejin Bieneman PLC Joins Ford Motor Company’s Legal Alliance for Women in a Global Day of ServiceWorldwide Effort Brings Together Volunteers from the Legal Profession to Support More Than 80 Community-Based Organizations Ford Motor Company’s Legal Alliance for Women (LAW) is hosting the Second… Read More »Bejin Bieneman PLC Joins Ford Motor Company’s Legal Alliance for Women in a Global Day of Service
- Bejin Bieneman PLC Announces Addition of IP Attorney Tyson BensonBejin Bieneman PLC, (http://www.b2iplaw.com), an intellectual property boutique law firm, is pleased to announce that Of Counsel attorney Tyson Benson hasjoined its growing team of intellectual property attorneys.… Read More »Bejin Bieneman PLC Announces Addition of IP Attorney Tyson Benson
WEBINARS
PTAB Update
Oct. 22, 2020
In this webinar, Bejin Bieneman’s Thomas Bejin and Peter Keros will provide an update on recent decisions from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The discussion will include Supreme Court and Federal Circuit review of PTAB decisions on Inter Partes Reviews, including issues that can be appealed, discretionary denial of institution, and the role of general knowledge for obviousness rejections. The discussion will further include tips for incorporating the lessons from these decisions into prosecution practice.
IP BLOG
- The Patent Office recently sent a reply to a group of senators asking about the gender diversity of the patent bar, the patent agents and patent attorneys licensed to practice before the Patent Office. The Patent Office’s letter […]
- In Nantworks v Niantic., the Northern District of California held that peer-to-peer online transaction reconciliation that uses a physical location of one of the participants is an abstract idea that is not patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. […]
- SIMO Holdings v. Hong Kong uCloudlink Network (Fed. Cir., Jan. 5, 2021) is a precedential opinion that touches on an interesting claim interpretation topic regarding disjunctive and conjunctive phrases. Independent claim 8 is at issue: 8. A wireless […]
- The Federal Circuit ended 2020 with a precedential opinion holding that patent claims directed to providing a graphical user interface for controlling a software object’s behavior were patent-ineligible under the Alice/Mayo test and 35 USC § 101. Simio, […]
- Comcast Cable Communications v. Promptu Systems Corporation (Fed. Cir., Jan. 4, 2021) is a nonprecedential opinion but nevertheless still provides an example of claim construction based on a modifying adjective. The Appellant appealed the IPR final-written decision in […]