To use a textbook or other reference to challenge the validity of a patent in a petition for inter partes review (“IPR”), the textbook must have been “publicly accessible” prior to the date of the challenged patent to qualify as a printed publication. Is a copyright notice sufficient evidence that a textbook was publicly accessible? …

As we leave the last month of this turbulent decade, it is fascinating to look back at the most significant developments. Imagine going back in time to 2010 and telling someone that over the next ten years, their phone would run almost every aspect of their life (and consume most of their attention), we would …

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have made headlines recently. Robots taking over the world and supercomputers replacing the human brain? As an enthusiast of the hit sci-fi TV series, Star Trek would say as AI advances:  “It‘s life Jim, but not as we know it!” However, AI is not science fiction and its use in the workplace …