Last fall after a day of sightseeing, several rounds of drinks, and a walk down to Navy Pier; I found myself listening to the rather familiar sounds of The Beatles. As we walked closer, approaching the Landshark Beer Garden, not only did the music grow louder, but several realizations descended on our group simultaneously: a)…

Welcome back, this is the first installment of the fall semester. A constitutional challenge to patent reform (AIA) has been circulating in the news lately. Read the complaint in Madstad & Stadnyk v. USPTO. The Constitutional question posited by the suit is a challenge to the AIA’s implementation of a first-to-file (rather than a first-to-invent)…