“May you live in interesting times” is an English expression of an apocryphal Chinese curse. There is no doubt that these are interesting times for patent attorneys. Not only are we now dealing with the impact of the 2011 American Invents Act and the change to a first-to-file system, but the Supreme Court issued a trio of game changing decisions in 2014 that will take years to interpret: Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, Limelight Networks v. Akamai, Nautilus v. Biosig. The 2015 Congress will also be considering “patent reform” legislation. So, the result of all of this is a change in the patent law climate. There is a lot to write about, and this blog will try to keep up to date on these and related developments.
