Detailed Guidance on New USPTO IDS Size Fees On 19 January 2025 the USPTO enacted a new Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) size fee. A new IDS size fee, codified under 37 C.F.R. 1.17(v), is accrued for any pending application when the number of cumulative references cited by the applicant exceeds each of 50, 100, and 200 references (hereinafter, “IDS Size Fee”). New IDS […]
https://www.iplawwatch.com/202....5/04/04/detailed-gui

Exclusive investigation uncovers worrying increase in suspicious websites claiming to be USPTO A new investigation from WTR has identified nearly 150 active websites that use the term ‘USPTO’ within the domain string.
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Senate Panel Advances Bills Tackling Drug Patents, Pricing A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday approved a group of bills tackling pharmaceutical patents and drug pricing, including measures that claim to address so-called patent thickets and an industry practice called "product hopping."
https://www.law360.com/ip/arti....cles/2317583?utm_sou

JPML Steers Pretrial Matters In OpenAI Copyright Fight To NY The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Thursday decided to centralize the pretrial work for a series of copyright infringement and Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawsuits against OpenAI in New York federal court.
https://www.law360.com/ip/arti....cles/2320960?utm_sou

Photographer Wants Justices To Look At 'Server Test' A Los Angeles-based photographer has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review his failed lawsuit against a travel website over embedding Instagram posts, challenging the Ninth Circuit's "server test" for determining liability for online copyright infringement claims.
https://www.law360.com/ip/arti....cles/2320850?utm_sou