America used to be the world’s premier technology innovator and China its best duplicator. But the roles are shifting, as has been shown by two major business stories of 2020: the signing of phase one of a… Read More »
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — In 2013, Sonos scored a coup when Google agreed to design its music service to work easily with Sonos’s home speakers. For the project, Sonos handed over the effective blueprints to its speakers. It… Read More »
Nucurrent, a startup in Chicago, has come up with a way to charge electronic gizmos wirelessly—a nifty trick for devices such as smartphones. So nifty, in fact, that Samsung, a giant South Korean device-maker, uses it in… Read More »
A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers are reviving legislation aimed at helping patent owners pursue infringement cases and fight administrative challenges. Patent owners, including independent inventors and small businesses, have complained that it’s too easy… Read More »
Law360 (April 12, 2018, 10:52 PM EDT) — U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu put the agency on a new course toward stronger patents with a speech Wednesday pledging to make the patent system more… Read More »
Silicon Valley, long the undisputed king of venture capital, is now sharing its throne with Asia. A decade ago, nearly three-quarters of the world’s financing of innovative, tech-heavy startups and young companies took place in the U.S.,… Read More »
On Tuesday, March 22nd, Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) and Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Support Technology & Research for Our Nation’s Growth and Economic Resilience (STRONGER) Patents Actinto the U.S. House of Representatives. This bill is a companion to the legislation of… Read More »
The U.S. dropped out of the top 10 in the 2018 Bloomberg Innovation Index for the first time in the six years the gauge has been compiled. South Korea and Sweden retained their No. 1 and No…. Read More »
In the final quarter of 2017, a total of 981 patent cases were filed in U.S. District Courts, a 1.3% decrease over the previous quarter’s total of 994 cases. Cases filed in the calendar year 2017 (4,057… Read More »
The U.N.’s intellectual property agency says China racked up a record 1.3 million patent applications last year, topping the combined total in the U.S., Japan, Korea and Europe. The World Intellectual Property Organization says innovators worldwide filed… Read More »
