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On December 4, 2025, USPTO Director John A. Squires issued a Memorandum (Memorandum I) to patent applicants and patent practitioners, reminding them about the use of Subject Matter Eligibility Declarations (SMEDs) under 37 CFR § 1.132 (commonly referred to as 132 Declarations) as another tool to overcome Section 101 rejections…

On Friday November 28, 2025, USPTO Commissioner John Squires issued a Revised Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions.  This Guidance rescinds the USPTO’s previously published Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions from February 13, 2024, and replaces it with the new Guidance.  This new guidance is effective immediately. The Guidance clarifies how…

USING PLACEHOLDER CLAIMS IS NOT RECOMMENDED AND MAY GIVE RISE TO UNINTENDED EXTRA COSTS “Placeholder claims” are temporary claims used in continuation applications to keep the new application legally connected to the original one and to preserve the same priority date before the parent application officially becomes a patent. “Placeholder…

  We are very pleased and proud to announce that as of today, The CDS-LUTHI Group is teaming up with the law firm of Herzog Fox & Neeman, one of the largest and leading law firms in Israel to form – Herzog Patents in association with CDS-LUTHI. The two arms of the CDS-LUTHI Group will…

The Israel Patent Office (ILPO) recently released its 2024 Annual Report, providing insight into the trends and developments across patents, trademarks, and designs. Below, we highlight the main takeaways regarding trademarks. Improved Processing Times The Israeli trademark registration landscape underwent significant shifts in 2024, characterized by faster and more efficient…

The European Union’s transparency rules for generative AI, effective August 2, 2025, introduce specific requirements for how AI systems handle intellectual property rights. These regulations require developers to document their training data sources, implement measures to prevent copyright infringement, and disclose when content is AI-generated. The new rules require AI…

Strategic claim drafting and prosecution in the USPTO continues to be of paramount importance. This is especially true in view of the recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) opinion Colibri Heart Valve LLC v. Medtronic CoreValve, LLC, No. 2023-2153 (Fed. Cir. July 18, 2025) . The…

Securing a patent in the U.S. can be challenging—especially when your invention is met with a Section 101 rejection for not being “patent-eligible.” These rejections typically assert that the claimed subject matter  is  abstract and lacks an “inventive concept.” However, with a strategic approach, this rejection can be overcome. This…