Patents and Patent Law

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Bev Robb attempts to simplify the emerging technology of blockchain for all of us under the brass tacks of Blockchain 101.

Evaluating patent risk is serious business -- and the single most important reason for retaining an experienced patent attorney.

Among the most disastrous mistakes made with respect to a company's trade secret is believing you own them when, in fact, you do not.

We already have a surplus of misguided attacks on exclusive licensing, a critical tool for commercializing federally funded discoveries to alleviate pain.

Protecting a small business from copyright claims and theft is not hard but 56 percent do not value intellectual property as much as large organizations.

Benjilock appeared on Shark Tank in Season 9 to pitch its padlock with built-in fingerprint technology. We interviewed the inventor behind it.

Nidec argued the Board improperly applied the joinder and time bar statutes. The Court held that it need not resolve this dispute because it affirme

The USPTO is in the process of publishing a notice designating the interruption in service in areas affected by Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana.

No technology is immune to failure, but the prospect of drones falling from the sky isn't frequently discussed in public by would-be drone delivery firms.

Patent prosecutors who operate principally as IP counselors best position themselves to make greater impact on their clients and build a mor

Plans are being made by the Trump administration to open a probe into deceptive Chinese trade practices by invoking Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.

In a promising step toward transparency, the Eastern District of Texas (the court that sees many of the nation’s patent cases) recently announced an amendment to its Local Rules that would require parties to file redacted versions of documents that contain confidential information

Part 4 (the second for business taxes) of our discussion of HR-1, the proposed new law for taxation in the US.

Opportunity exists in global markets and for companies that view patent portfolios and innovation as a doorway to new markets as part of a growth strategy.

The written description must show with reasonable clarity that as of the filing date the applicant was in possession of the invention.

The Patent Trials and Appeal Board (PTAB), which is expected to be defended by the highest US court in a number of months, receives support in the form of briefs from the EFF and CCIA

Judge Lucy Koh also details how to determine what "article of manufacture" actually did the infringing.

A bogus litigation 'industry' which merely destroys the software (i.e. real) industry is being scuttled by the Supreme Court; China foolishly enough takes this 'crown', essentially creating its own 'Eastern District of Texas' in Beijing

Interpreting TC Heartland, Judge Gilstrap found a single employee constituted regular and established place of business, and he established

BY KOREN WONG-ERVIN -- U.S. agencies should renounce the anti-intellectual property policies adopted under the Obama Administration and speak out against foreign enforcers that use antitrust to devalue intellectual property rights and violate principles of international comity.

The US patent office is at risk (if Trump gets his way) of being dominated by law firms rather than people with a background in science and technology

Congress must kill the two biggest enemies of the U.S. patent system: patent quality extremism and money-can-buy privileges.