Ex parte reexamination (EPRx) is a powerful tool that allows any party — including the patent owner — to request that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reassess the validity of an ...

The USPTO issued a significant Decision on Remand on Monday, April 27, 2026, clarifying when estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e ...

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 ...

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.

In their International Dispute Resolution column, Lawrence W. Newman and David Zaslowsky write: When practitioners and scholars speak, in articles and seminars, about corruption in international ...

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 ...

The Madras High Court Chief Justice’s Bench has cautioned all the courts in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry against passing ex-parte interim orders in a casual manner and without due consideration to the ...

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 ...

On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in the case of Ex parte Endo, which has reverberated through history as a crucial moment in the fight for civil liberties in the ...

Analysis Email and Ex-Parte Communications The rules of professional conduct prohibiting ex parte communications appear to be simple. However, the nuances that are discussed in this article need to be ...