America-Israel Patent Law Blog

Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner

Category: ILPTO decisions

  • Procedure, Proschmedure

    For people who observe both the US and Israeli legal scenes, one striking difference between the two is the emphasis placed on judicial procedure.  Put coarsely, the USA places more…

  • Commissioner-cum-Magician: Making Australia Disappear and Reappear

    Like the USPTO, the Israel PTO is blessed with some good patent examiners.  Like the USPTO, it also has more than its fair share of less-than-stellar examiners.  And like the…

  • Not even sublime, just ridiculous – part 1

    Israel has both pre-grant patent oppositions as well as post-grant revocation proceedings.  Sometimes the PTO’s decisions in these proceedings make sense.  Sometimes they don’t.  A recent opposition decision, Unipharm v…

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I’m Dan Feigelson. I’ve been practicing patent law for over 30 years. I’m also opinionated, as you may discover in reading my writings here.