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The U.S. patent system is being manipulated and exploited by non-practicing entities (NPEs), or “patent trolls,” who are attacking American ...
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By Beau Phillips, Executive Director, US*MADE WASHINGTON - US*MADE, a coalition of manufacturers and American manufacturing trade associations focused on ...
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By Beau Phillips, Executive Director, US*MADE The pharmaceutical industry has long opposed the practice of inter partes review (IPR) at ...
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By Laura BradfordAmerican manufacturers need the protection patents provide, but they don’t need bad actors trying to extort money from ...
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Washington, DC –November 30, 2021 – Outlining how she will protect America’s position as an innovation leader and preserve manufacturing ...
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Biden's USPTO Pick Can Restore Much-Needed Patent Reform - Law360 In nominating Kathi Vidal as new director of the U.S ...
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By TROY R. LESTER |August 7, 2021 at 4:39 p.m.Bad, overly broad patents are harmful to U.S. manufacturing companies and ...
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By Joseph Matal October 6, 2021, 4:52 PM EDT Law360 (October 6, 2021, 4:52 PM EDT) -- Joseph Matal With ...
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US*MADE today announced its support for the Restoring the America Invents Act bill introduced by Senators Leahy and Cornyn. “Senator ...
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By Blake Britain Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, said Wednesday that he would introduce legislation "restoring" the Patent ...
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Like tens of thousands of manufacturers in North Carolina, Jeff Queen knows how hard it is to run a manufacturing ...
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Press Releases Rep. Norman Leads Letter to President Biden Regarding Frivolous Patent Litigation & USPTO Washington, DC, July 22, 2021 ...
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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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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. Manufacturers saw ...
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In 2020, the PTAB logged a record increase in “discretionary” denials, with 228 petitions denied without considering the merits. The ...
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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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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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Federal courts are seeing a jump in patent infringement lawsuits, and recent intellectual property sales are hinting at a further ...
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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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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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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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As the owner and founder of Queen Tackle, a small North Carolina fishing tackle business I run with my son, ...
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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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In the face of the twin crises of public health and economic contraction, bold measures are necessary to stop the ...
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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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Back in 2018, the disgraced biotech company Theranos sold its patent portfolio to Fortress Investment Group, a division of Softbank ...
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One of the most brilliant parts of the Constitution is found in Article One, Section Eight, Clause Eight. To save ...
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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 Covid-19 pandemic, devastating as it is, is producing some triumphs of collaborative research and innovation, as everyone from the ...
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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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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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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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As fear over the spread of coronavirus intensifies, researchers around the globe are scrambling to find a cure. The antiviral ...
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Right now, our nation is experiencing a time of deep crisis. It is very important for the federal government to ...
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As the owner and founder of Queen Tackle, a small North Carolina fishing tackle business I run with my son, ...
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By providing a more efficient system for assessing validity of US Patents. Patent Progress reports the significant savings on litigation ...
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That includes reading the application, understanding the background technology, looking for examples of prior art, describing how the prior art ...
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IPR has had material benefits for American companies that “no longer have to pay ransom so the threat of lawsuits ...
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The first half of 2019 is in the books and Unified Patents has already crunched the numbers on patent litigation ...
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