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This fall, there will be a 93% increase in PCT deadlines due to the America Invents Act (AIA). Before the final changes of the AIA came into effect on March 16, 2013, there was an influx of patent applications, as the new law included a number of provisions that made it more difficult to obtain protection in the US. Those applications are now up for PCT national stage entry. inovia and RWS recently released an extensive guide detailing how law firms and corporations should handle this upcoming flood of deadlines. Read the full report here.

In this week’s roundup of IP developments, we focus on judges. The England & Wales Court of Appeal reversed decisions in Actavis v Lilly and Smith & Nephew v ConvaTec, there was a landmark in Switzerland’s Federal Patent Court and Judge Alex Kozinski visited London

Biotech IP practitioners at the BIO International Convention warned companies will increasingly look to trade secrets as a result of the courts’ and USPTO’s interpretation of Section 101, while David Kappos, Phil Johnson and Judge Paul Michel gave a gloomy outlook for patent holders

“Simplify. Simplify. Simplify.” That was the advice given to advocates by Judge Alex Kozinski of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at the annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture at University College London this week, in a lively talk that also featured Barbie, Eliza Doolittle and the Garcia v Google case

A judge in the Northern District of California ruled on Wednesday that an ITC finding of non-infringement does not block litigation on the same patents

A study on the USPTO teleworking programme, a "smoking gun” in the Happy Birthday copyright case, the TTAB criticising an attorney for being pedantic, Michael Jordan losing a trade mark case in China, and the Federal Circuit weighing in on the ParkerVision/Qualcomm case were in the IP headlines in the past week

The Supreme Court has dismissed the government’s special leave petition seeking to overturn the Madras High Court’s decision that IP Appellate Board (IPAB) technical members were acting in judicial roles in violation of the Constitution

Kingsley Egbuonu summarises some recent IP developments in Europe – including an investigation of Sky, concerns about patent boxes, TTIP and WIPO’s budget

MPHJ, the non-practicing entity that owns the so-called “scan to email” patent, argued in Federal Court yesterday that Vermont consumer protection laws violate its free speech rights

In new guidance on patent subject matter eligibility, the USPTO has responded to six themes brought up in feedback on last year’s interim guidance. IP practitioners say new examples provided with the update will be helpful in determining the boundaries of patentability