Monthly Archives: September 2022

The Path Forward from American Axle: Discussing Legislative and Agency Rulemaking Fixes to Section 101

Last year, there was a great amount of confidence among those in intellectual property circles that the U.S. Supreme Court might finally provide some much-needed clarity to Section 101 subject matter patentability after a petition for writ of certiorari was filed in American Axle v. Neapco Holdings. On the second day of IPWatchdog LIVE 2022,…

How the logic of ‘winter selection’ shaped centuries of bad science

Famous evolutionary biologists like Alfred Russell Wallace proposed that humans got smarter as they learned to live in colder places. But there are a few big (and also bigoted) caveats in that thinking. Dylan Shaw/Unsplash Excerpted from A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems,…