Ex parte reexamination (EPRx) is a powerful tool that allows any party — including the patent owner — to request that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reassess the validity of an ...

In In Re Gesture Technology Partners, LLC, Case No. 2025-1075 (Fed. Cir. December 1, 2025) (“Gesture”), the Federal Circuit reinforced the power of ex parte reexaminations as powerful tools for ...

ATLANTA — A second meeting known as an ex parte meeting was revealed Wednesday in court in the trial involving rapper Young Thug and an alleged YSL street gang. The revelation came from lawyers for ...

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - The transcript of the ex parte meeting that led to the pause in the Young Thug/YSL trial in Fulton County has been released. The unredacted transcript was filed with Fulton County ...

In their International Dispute Resolution column, Lawrence W. Newman and David Zaslowsky write: When practitioners and scholars speak, in articles and seminars, about corruption in international ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us many lessons. Closing New York courts to the public and conducting court appearances and trials virtually using Microsoft Teams and telephone conferencing has ...

So much happened on Good Friday with A.A.R.P. v. Trump that one item has slipped through the cracks. The ACLU made a request for an injunction after hours on the voicemail of Judge Hendrix's chambers.

CommentaryAttorney Analysis from Westlaw Today, a part of Thomson Reuters. October 27, 2023 - The ex parte seizure order, codified under Section 1836(b)(2) of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 ...

“Arguing the most clearly-wrong rejections first places the Board in the proper mental disposition for later arguments. They’re naturally going to be more open to you and more skeptical of other ...

The Madras High Court Chief Justice’s Bench has cautioned all the courts in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry against passing ex-parte interim orders in a casual manner and without due consideration to the ...

Ex parte appeals (or “appeals”) provide a rare opportunity for applicants to involve new decision-makers to independently assess the quality of pending rejections. However, a substantial disadvantage ...