Discretionary factors, including “settled expectations,” have done a lot of work at the PTAB over the past year. They have become a powerful basis ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...