Every business can be reinvented, whether it’s light bulbs, farm equipment, baby strollers, bicycles or hair coloring. You’ll find them all in Crain’s annual ranking of the Most Innovative Companies in the Chicago area. With the help… Read More »
Sherry Knowles has a very personal interest in defending intellectual property — she believes it saved her life. Ms Knowles, herself a patent lawyer, fears that the treatment that helped her combat breast cancer, a medicine known… Read More »
Patent rights have long been a bulwark of American economic growth and innovation. Unfortunately, over the past decade, the U.S. patent system has slipped from number one to number 10 in the world. U.S. Supreme Court decisions… Read More »
Unemployment has fallen, and the stock market has soared. So why has the economic expansion since the recession been so tame, with sluggish productivity and, at least until recently, anemic wage growth? Economists say the answer, to… Read More »
Imagine that you are the founder of a small biotech company. You have spent millions of dollars and years of time developing a new diagnostic test for a blood disease. You are about to revolutionise your field…. Read More »
President Donald Trump has nominaed Andrei Iancu as director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Iancu will Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property… “We congratulate Mr. Iancu on his nomination to be Director of… Read More »
The former chief judge of the Federal Circuit told a House committee Thursday that the U.S. patent system is in “crisis mode,” with America Invents Act reviews and U.S. Supreme Court decisions like Alice creating uncertainty that… Read More »
In 1997, Navy SEAL Randy Hetrick was deployed in Southeast Asia, where he was stationed in a remote warehouse for weeks with no way to exercise. So he grabbed an old jujitsu belt, threw it over a… Read More »
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) is introducing legislation aimed at making it easier and cheaper for patent holders to enforce their patents. The bill is based on legislation Coons introduced last year, which aimed at making patent proceedings “more fair… Read More »
Senator Chris Coons, (D-Del.), talks about the importance of introducing new bipartisan legislation that strengthens intellectual property laws. WATCH HERE
