WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a procedure that makes it easier to challenge questionable patents. The procedure, created by Congress in 2011, resembles a ...

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Stephen Diego Frausto, Meghan McLean Poon Ph.D. In a recent press release, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that, starting on April 18, 2023, the Office would begin issuing ...

Joe Liebeschuetz Ph.D., Stephen Schilling Ph.D. This year, patent holders will have a new path to validate (or litigate) their patents in Europe – the unitary patent and Unified Patent Court. Our ...

Other patent-related cases, such as infringement cases, cases concerning decisions on ownership, ownership disputes and impersonations, unless processed by the patent department, are usually related ...

Inventions can be extremely valuable, yet it is impossible, and in most cases premature, to apply for a patent the moment it is conceived. For example, time may be required to develop the nascent ...

Innovation thrives when inventors and companies can create groundbreaking ideas confidently and know their intellectual property (IP) is legally protected. Unfortunately, the traditional process of ...

Washington got one right for a change. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s proposed new “One Challenge” rule may finally break Big Tech’s stranglehold on innovation, revitalize our patent system, ...

When I began filing patent applications, I thought having a patent would stop others from infringing on my invention. But I learned the hard truth about patents and the patent system by suing one of ...

“This case is thus a poster child of how patent cases are increasingly deviating from the norms of civil procedure, and of the need to start providing ‘reasoned decisions’… like in any other civil ...