Patent Law Developments and Faculty Activities Archive

• Read Mueller’s Federal Circuit Tweet Cheat Sheet 2023 here.

• Read Chisum’s July 2022 article, “Fifty Years of Patent Law: The Top Ten Developments,” here.

• Read Chisum’s 2018 roundup of Federal Circuit precedential decisions on Section 101 patent-eligibility here.

• Monthly summaries of Federal Circuit oral arguments by John Dragseth: click here for subscription information.

• Read Chisum’s 2017 roundup of Federal Circuit precedential decisions on Section 101 patent-eligibility here.

• Read our critique of the Supreme Court’s decision on patent exhaustion here: Commentary on Impression Products v Lexmark International (U.S. May 30, 2017)

• View the tribute video to patent law giant Judge Giles Rich (1904-1999), prepared for the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Giles Sutherland Rich American Inn of Court in Washington, D.C. on May 13, 2017 here.

• Takeaways from our March 2017 advanced patent law seminar in Cincinnati are here.

• Professor John Witherspoon’s moving tribute to Judge Giles Rich, presented to the Giles Sutherland Rich American Inn of Court on January 18, 2017, is here.

• January 2017: Our picks for the 15 most impactful Federal Circuit patent decisions of 2016 is here.

• October 6, 2016: Summary from our 2016 Washington, D.C. seminars is here.

• August 15, 2016: Takeaways from our Seattle 2016 seminars are here.

• July 8, 2016: New 5th edition of Mueller’s single-volume text, Patent Law, has published. Ordering information here.  Preface here.

• Key points and questions raised by Supreme Court’s decision rewriting the law of enhanced damages for willful patent infringement, Halo v. Pulse (June 13, 2016) here.

• May 3, 2016:  Wolters Kluwer publishes annual update for Mueller on Patent Law Vol. 2 (Patent Enforcement).  Highlights here.

• March 18, 2016: Takeaways summary report from our March 2016 round table seminar is here.

• March 1, 2016:  Chisummary™ of Lexmark Int’l (Fed. Cir. 2016 en banc) is here.

• Feb. 3, 2016: Update on coverage for our March 10-11 seminar in Cincinnati, OH is here.

• Jan. 4, 2016: Chisum’s 2015 Patent Law Highlights here.

• Nov. 26, 2015: Mueller draft paper on Enhanced Damages and Willful Infringement:  here.

• Nov. 7, 2015:  Announcing publication of Chisum’s Patent Law Digest 2015 Edition.

• Oct. 20, 2015: SCOTUS to review willful patent infringement. We’ll deep-dive in our 2016 seminars.

• Oct. 8, 2015: New paper by Mueller on patent-ineligible methods of treatment here.

• Takeaways from our September 2015 Washington, D.C. seminar here.

• September 2015 Annual Update published to Mueller on Patent Law Volume I (Patentability and Validity): highlights here.

• Takeaways from our August 2015 Seattle seminar here.

• June 26, 2015:  Our review of Ronald Fierstein’s new book on the Polaroid-Kodak patent wars.

• June 3, 2015: Professor Joe Miller’s new patent case book designed for use in close conjunction with Mueller’s student treatise.

• Dates announced for 2016 Cincinnati Seminar:  March 10-11, 2016

• May 26, 2015: Vacating Federal Circuit’s judgment in Commil v. Cisco, SCOTUS holds that belief in a patent’s invalidity is no defense to a claim of induced infringement 

• Announcing our first Washington, DC seminar! September 24-25, 2015

• May 19, 2015: Chisum & Mueller Commentary on Software Patents

• April 2015 Annual Update Published to Mueller on Patent Law Volume II (Patent Enforcement): highlights here.

• Mueller quoted in Feb. 18, 2015 BNA PTCJ article on patent claim construction

• Jan. 20, 2015: Supreme Court Overturns Longstanding CAFC Claim Construction Practice in Teva v. Sandoz

• Dec. 23, 2014: Chisum’s 2014 Patent Law Developments

• Dec. 6, 2014: Supreme Court to Review (Again) Intent Requirement for Induced Infringement

• Topics announced for March 5-6, 2015 Cincinnati seminar

• Takeaways from our August 2014 Seattle Seminars

• Chisum commentary on Patently-O re Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank

• New treatise: Mueller on Patent Law (Vol. II: Enforcement) published May 2014

• New website: MuellerOnPatentLaw.com

• Chinese language translation published of Mueller’s Patent Law, Third Edition (Intellectual Property Publishing House Co. Ltd. 2013)

• IPWatchDog.com‘s Gene Quinn Interviews Chisum and Mueller (January 2014) (Part I) (Part II)

• Chisum Monograph: Patents on Computer-Implemented Methods and Systems: The Supreme Court Grants Review (CLS Bank)–Background Developments and Comments

• Follow Chisum and Mueller on Twitter!

• Academy’s 2014 Seminars announced on Patently-O

• Mueller’s Patent Law, Fourth Edition (Aspen Student Treatise Series) (2013) now available in convenient Kindle format

• Chisum, Confessions of a Treatise Author (remarks to the Pauline Newman IP American Inn of Court, March 19, 2013)

• Mueller interviewed on Indian Supreme Court’s Gleevec Decision (Corporate Counsel)

• Chisum on the Doctrine of Equivalents (Patently-O)

• Mueller’s Patent Law, Fourth Edition (Aspen Student Treatise Series) (2013)

• Chisum’s Patent Law Digest, 2012 Edition Adds Comprehensive AIA Coverage

• Mueller on Patent Law: Patentability and Validity (Aspen Publishers May 2012) (Vol. I of II);  Detailed Table of Contents 
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• Chisum on the New Rules of Priority under the AIA [downloaded over 2,000 times]

• Louisville Bar Association June 12, 2012

• Cincinnati IP Association Feb. 14, 2012

• What Patent Reform Does NOT Reform

• Announcement on Patently-O Blog

• Praise for Academy from Patents4Life Blog

• Donald Chisum Named to IP Hall of Fame 2011

• Donald Chisum’s Interview with IAM Magazine

• Mueller & Brean on Design Patents

• New article on Bilski v. Kappos