David O. Taylor

Law professor at the SMU Dedman School of Law, teaching contracts and patent law courses, my scholarship focuses on patent law.

[SMU Tsai Center @SMUTsaiCenter]

The 2024 Tsai Today newsletter is online! We invite you to check it out and learn more about the Tsai Center's programs and people: https://t.co/tmzFLKGAb9 @SMULawSchool @smu @davidotaylor @nathancortez @MeghanJRyan @JasonPNance @SMULawAdmission

[SSRN @SSRN]

While the #Federal Circuit remains the nation's primary expositor of #patentlaw, the Patent Trial & Appeal Board has evolved into the most powerful institution in the nation's #patent system.

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[Elizabeth G. Loboa @egloboa]

#SMU Professor @davidotaylor studies the relationship of the Federal Circuit and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board as a matter of institutional choice through 10 years of case law, giving insight into this understudied area. #researchwithimpact

[David O. Taylor @davidotaylor]

@babayagaoptions The judges decide that day, but their decisions trickle out depending on the type of decision and order/opinion. It could be days if it is a dismissal or summary affirmance, within a week or couple weeks if it is a simple nonprecedential opinion, or months if it is precedential.

[SMU Dedman School of Law @SMULawSchool]

Professor @davidotaylor's article, "The Federal Circuit and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board," was published in @J_PTOS.

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[SMU Dedman School of Law @SMULawSchool]

SMU Dedman School of Law is thrilled to welcome @ShaniShisha as an Assistant Professor of Law, starting fall 2024.

His teaching and scholarship focus on intellectual property law, copyright law, and the intersection of law and technology.

🔗 More: https://t.co/oHKfYMm6n1

[SMU Tsai Center @SMUTsaiCenter]

Free registration for 2/24 is open! https://t.co/MadRG4aeSm
Topics: #trademarks & #copyrights in #metaverse & #videogames; managing innovation process in business; #SSOs, #EssentialPatents & #PatentPools, with keynote address by Chief Judge Gilstrap. 4 hrs CLE pending!

[SMU Tsai Center @SMUTsaiCenter]

Complimentary registration is open! ➡️https://t.co/h1pDrb8aHE⬅️ 19th Symposium on Emerging Intellectual Property Issues: Intellectual Property & The Business of Innovations on Friday, Feb, 24th @SMULawSchool. 4 hrs CLE pending. @davidotaylor @MustangBarSMU

[SMU Tsai Center @SMUTsaiCenter]

Kicking off the 2022-2023 academic year with a welcome dinner for our #TsaiScholars, co-directors and new dean of @SMULawSchool @JasonPNance at the home of @davidotaylor with @nathancortez & @MeghanJRyan!

[David O. Taylor @davidotaylor]

@design_law Haha leave that to me. (Cracks knuckles.) Just kidding. I think I've written enough.

[David O. Taylor @davidotaylor]

@design_law Impressionism? Cubism? Rhythmic gymnastic floor exercises? The triple Salchow?

[David O. Taylor @davidotaylor]

Four basic principles should guide any legislative effort to correct patent eligibility law: broad eligibility, clarity, constraint on judicial intervention, and flexibility. Senator Tillis's bill, while not perfect, holds the potential to check all these boxes.

[David O. Taylor @davidotaylor]

@design_law In general this list is focused on circumscribing the broad inclusion of processes. Europe has a different list of exclusions, but both exclude "business processes" and "methods for doing business." Should hedging have been eligible? Speed dating? Impressionism?

[David O. Taylor @davidotaylor]

@design_law In 2019 I commented negatively on the draft legislation limiting eligibility to a "field of technology." I referred to dictionaries to try to understand "technology." https://t.co/F3XwxMLMYc I have less concern here given the context and following language limiting its impact.

[David O. Taylor @davidotaylor]

Senator Tillis's bill is a significant improvement over the legislation proposed in 2019. Indeed, the bill addresses many of the concerns I identified then in my testimony. https://t.co/F3XwxMLMYc

[David O. Taylor @davidotaylor]

As I testified in 2019, "Patent eligibility law is in a state of crisis, and legislative reform is needed to eliminate that crisis." Senator Tillis's bill seeks to address the confusion, incorrect results, and reduced investment my research identified. https://t.co/F3XwxMLMYc

[David O. Taylor @davidotaylor]

North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis yesterday introduced a bill addressing patent law's subject matter eligibility doctrine. https://t.co/kIFhQ55CJi

[SMU Dedman School of Law @SMULawSchool]

#SMULawSchool Profs. @nathancortez and @MeghanJRyan named as Co-Directors of SMU Dedman School of Law's @SMUTsaiCenter. They join founding Co-Director and Prof. @davidotaylor who is currently leading the Center. @SMU Read more: https://t.co/Tg5VgyAz8y

[FedCircuitBlog @FedCircuitBlog]

Justice Breyer's Last Act? One of Justice Breyer’s last acts as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court might be voting to deny a petition for a writ of certiorari in an important patent eligibility case decided by the Federal Circuit. https://t.co/oW4L1OEgj0