In a landmark decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has overruled the longstanding test for assessing whether a design patent is considered obvious in view of prior art. This ...

Speck v. Bates, No. 2023-1147 (Fed. Cir. May 23, 2024) addressed two issues, (1) whether courts should apply a one-way test or a two-way test to determine if pre-critical claims materially differ from ...

The importance of properly integrating test points into a PCB design. Test-point deployment considerations. When it comes to creating a modern electronic design, we live in both the best and the worst ...

April 8 (Reuters) - Not all circuit splits are created equal. Intuitively, everyone who tracks U.S. Supreme Court litigation understands that idea. As you know, one of the most effective ways to ...

Every electrician has been there: You open a panel, and nothing is marked — or the markings are so outdated, you don’t have confidence in their accuracy. In some ...