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The USPTO Ends Foreign Pro Se Patent Prosecution
A new rule from the USPTO took effect July 20, effectively ending foreign pro se patent prosecution: Patent applicants and patent owners whose domicile is outside the United States or its territories must now be represented by a registered patent practitioner —...
Banning Technology: A Balk That Should Be Called
What does Major League Baseball banning AI in the dugout have to do with legal? It turns out it’s a lot. Read my post for Above the Law to find out
As the CIPA World Turns…
With what is becoming the regular cadence of a daily soap opera, the developments in what has become known as “CIPA law” continue to evolve quickly. In the past couple of weeks, we have written on several instances that could impact the litigation...
USCIS Wants More Green Card Cases Processed Abroad: Is the State Department Prepared?
In May 2026, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a policy memorandum signaling a shift in how employment-based permanent residence cases may be processed. The memorandum encourages adjudicators to deny adjustment of status (Form I-485)...
USCIS Wants More Green Card Cases Processed Abroad: Is the State Department Prepared?
May 2026, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a policy memorandum signaling a shift in how employment-based permanent residence cases may be processed. The memorandum encourages adjudicators to deny adjustment of status (Form I-485)...
DHS General Counsel Names Four Federal Judges ‘Worst Of The Worst’ As Threats Against Judiciary Hit 564
The Department of Homeland Security runs a recurring social media feature called “Worst of the Worst,” in which it names individual immigrants it has deported and catalogs their alleged crimes. It’s a public relations effort to distract from the fact...
Trump Fails To File Promised Birthright Citizenship Rehearing Before Deadline
Are you guys sitting down? Because it’s possible — possible — that Donald Trump might be full of shit. I know, I know. But hear me out. After losing his challenge to the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship on a 5-4 or 6-3...
Neil Gorsuch Says He Trusts Sonia Sotomayor’s Motives, Even If He Rejects Her Legal Views
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I know she loves this country. She knows I love this country. We know we’re coming at it from the right place internally. — Justice Neil Gorsuch, in comments given during an appearance at the Reagan...
Selling The Skinny
For three years straight, I have written on these pages about patent-related issues involving the defining drugs of our lifetimes, GLP-1’s. Let’s go for the fourth year in a row. In 2023, I focused on recently granted patents that the two behemoths in the weight-loss...