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Pulling Teeth for Priority: Federal Circuit Bites into Loose Prior Art Standards
DENTAL MONITORING SAS v. ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC. Dental Monitoring SAS v. Align Technology, Inc. (Aug. 10, 2026) addressed an issue practitioners encounter with some regularity – priority-date requirements for prior art under the AIA. The question was whether a reference with a priority chain in which the earliest, but not latest, priority date predates the application at issue […]
IAM Strategy 300 Winners
What Separates an IP Attorney at SLW From a Patent Attorney Four SLW attorneys were named to the IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists 2026. What the distinction measures says something about how patent work is changing. Every company with an R&D budget eventually runs into a question that goes beyond any single […]