For most of us, we’re stuck in the August heat, on delayed European vacations, or hopefully just hanging out at the beach. 

From facial-recognition technology to voice assistants and self-driving cars, artificial intelligence these days is pretty remarkable. But according to our latest case of the week, there’s at least one thing AI can’t do: be listed as an inventor on a patent application.

Sometimes just because the rules permit something doesn’t mean doing it is a good idea. As our latest case-of-the-week shows, the result could be an award of attorney fees.

Precedential opinions: 3 Non-precedential opinions: 10 Rule 36: 0 Longest pending case from argument: Zafer Construction Company v. United States, No. 21-1547 (104 days) Shortest (non-Rule 36) pending case from argument: Tie between Polaris Innovations Limited v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., No. 21-1917 (13 days), and Davis v. 

Precedential opinions: 3 Non-precedential opinions: 4 Rule 36: 1 Longest pending case from argument: Lanclos v. United States, No. 21-1750 (219 days) Shortest (non-Rule 36) pending case from argument: Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. Thales USA, Inc., No. 21-2106 (36 days) Case of the week: Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. Thales

The number of attorneys practicing before the PTO has boomed with the popularity of the America Invents Act’s various adversarial proceedings before the Office. This week’s case-of-the-week serves as a reminder to attorneys appearing before the agency to keep in mind the Office’s own specific “Code of Professional Responsibility.”

Last week’s big news was the anticlimactic end of the American Axle saga.  (See our post on the Supreme Court’s cert denial here.)  But the Federal Circuit was

The Supreme Court dominated the news last week, and the Federal Circuit issued just four opinions.  One of them was a doozy:  to reinforce confidence in the jud

It’s officially the start of summer, but the Federal Circuit is still hard at work:  last week the Court issued a few precedential opinions, several non-precede

Last week was argument week at the Federal Circuit, and we’ve already begun seeing decisions from the argued cases trickle in. Below we provide our usual weekly