
Patent system often stifles the innovation it was designed to encourage
Over his career Thomas Edison garnered more U.S. patents than anyone in his time. Edison profited from his patents, but ...
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Fast Courts, Big Funders Kept Patent Suits Flowing In 2020
Following a four-year decline in new patent litigation, case numbers rose in 2020, and attorneys have attributed the increase to ...
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Second Economic Study Finds Billions of Dollars in Benefits to U.S. Economy from IPR…with most going to manufacturers.
Second Economic Study Finds Billions of Dollars in Benefits to U.S. Economy from IPR…with most going to manufacturers. Manufacturers saw ...
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PTAB Discretionary Denials Up over 60% in 2020
In 2020, the PTAB logged a record increase in “discretionary” denials, with 228 petitions denied without considering the merits. The ...
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Congress Must Stop USPTO from Arbitrarily Denying Access to IPR Process
In the past, productive, innovative companies found themselves in years-long, costly patent lawsuits facing accusations of infringing on weak or ...
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Patent Litigation is on the Rebound
Some aggressive nonpracticing entities—and perhaps growing interest in litigation funding—have put 2020 district court filings 16% ahead of the previous ...
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Patent Lawsuits on Rise, Buying Spree Hints More To Come
Federal courts are seeing a jump in patent infringement lawsuits, and recent intellectual property sales are hinting at a further ...
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Supreme Court Affirms Bad Patents Exist, Saves Review Process
In April, the U.S. Supreme Court made a strong statement against “bad patents” (patents granted despite failing the tests of ...
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Pandemic Shines Spotlight on Problem of Bad Patents
In the wake of COVID-19’s economic destruction, policymakers face the challenging task of kickstarting the economy and re-opening the country ...
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Letter to the Editor from Beau Phillips in response to The Economist article
The patents process is fair Rolling back the advances that have been made in America’s patent system (“The trouble with ...
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Inter Partes Review Stops Patent Trolls in Their Tracks
As the owner and founder of Queen Tackle, a small North Carolina fishing tackle business I run with my son, ...
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When the Pandemic Passes, Will Congress Remember Manufacturers?
COVID-19 continues to take huge hits on the American economy, and nearly 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits ...
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Make Patent Reform Part of the Recovery Agenda
In the face of the twin crises of public health and economic contraction, bold measures are necessary to stop the ...
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Patent Trolls Threaten Telemedicine at Worst Possible Time
From northern Alaska to islands off Florida—and countless places in between—telemedicine is saving, extending, and improving American lives. As we’ve ...
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Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test [Updated]
Back in 2018, the disgraced biotech company Theranos sold its patent portfolio to Fortress Investment Group, a division of Softbank ...
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Protect the Constitution! Protect Patents
One of the most brilliant parts of the Constitution is found in Article One, Section Eight, Clause Eight. To save ...
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Opinion: Why proportionality is key for patent injunctions
Vanessa Bailey, global director of IP policy at Intel Corporation, urges lawmakers to carefully balance the interests of different parties ...
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The tension between public health and patents in the era of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic, devastating as it is, is producing some triumphs of collaborative research and innovation, as everyone from the ...
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There Is No Space For Legal Waste In The COVID Economy
Among the casualties of COVID-19 has been Americans’ tolerance with needless bureaucracy, nuisance lawsuits, and regulatory red tape. When the ...
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Patents Protect American Manufacturers
If something isn’t broken, it doesn’t make sense to try to fix it. And yet some are eager to start ...
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Op-ed: Stop patent trolling
By now we’re all-too-familiar with Internet trolls, those annoying people who’ve turned social media into a cesspool of insults and ...
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Patent Disputes Hit Manufacturers the Hardest
As fear over the spread of coronavirus intensifies, researchers around the globe are scrambling to find a cure. The antiviral ...
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In a Time of Coronavirus Crisis, Protecting Patents Is Important
Right now, our nation is experiencing a time of deep crisis. It is very important for the federal government to ...
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Small N.C. Manufacturer in Patent Suit Urges Congress to Preserve IPR
As the owner and founder of Queen Tackle, a small North Carolina fishing tackle business I run with my son, ...
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IPRs Save $2.3 Billion in Legal Fees in First Five Years
By providing a more efficient system for assessing validity of US Patents. Patent Progress reports the significant savings on litigation ...
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Patent Examiners Have an Average of Only 19 Hours to Review a Patent Application
That includes reading the application, understanding the background technology, looking for examples of prior art, describing how the prior art ...
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Inter Partes Review Has Provided Companies a Relatively Inexpensive Avenue to Challenge Questionable Patents
IPR has had material benefits for American companies that “no longer have to pay ransom so the threat of lawsuits ...
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Patent Lawsuits Up in 2019; PTAB Filings Down | National Law Journal
The first half of 2019 is in the books and Unified Patents has already crunched the numbers on patent litigation ...
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