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Chemical innovation rarely fits neatly into a single compound or structure. More often, it lives in ranges, properties, and measurable characteristics, which makes claiming it before the European Patent Office a distinct challenge. The next installment of the SLW Chemistry and Biology Series, “Chemical Inventions Before the EPO,” takes on the key questions practitioners face […]
Click here to download the presentation slides Patent law training has a new problem. AI can perform parts of patent attorney apprenticeship before the junior knows what the work requires. So how should firms use AI without skipping the experiences that build judgement? In this installment of the SLW Institute Coffee Break Webinar Series, “Training […]
Click here to download the presentation slides Statements made years before litigation can decide how a patent’s claims are construed. This webinar in the SLW Chemistry and Biology Series “Words Matter: The Overlooked Statements Behind Claim Construction,” focuses on real cases across multiple technology areas, with a particular emphasis on chemistry. Senior Attorney David VanVliet, […]
SATIUS HOLDING, LLC v. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (2025-1446, October 1, 2026) U.S. Patent No. 6,711,385 (“the 385 patent”) relates to a coupler designed to match the impedance of a transmitter to the impedance of air. The physics problem is a familiar one in RF engineering: signals reflect and lose power when transmitting between media […]
In One Weekend, a High-School Dropout Using AI Shook the Math World For about fifty years, mathematicians inched the proven share of the Riemann zeta function’s nontrivial zeros on the critical line from 33.3% to 41.6%. In a result announced in August 2026, an AI model raised it to 67.2% in about two days of […]
The Nielsen Co. (US), LLC v. TVision Insights, Inc., No. 25-1371 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 14, 2026) U.S. Patent No. 11,470,243 (“the ‘243 patent”) covers audience measurement systems (essentially the technology that watches you while you watch television) ostensibly to count how many people are in the room and whether they are paying attention. The ‘243 […]
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