On Tuesday evening December 8, 2015, Jay Walker, a prolific patented inventor and billionaire businessman, was named National Inventor of the Year by the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Educational Foundation at their annual celebration in Washington, DC. Walker, the… Read More »
Motivated by concerns that the patent system is hindering innovation, particularly for small inventors, this study investigates the bright side of patents. We examine whether patents help startups grow and succeed using detailed micro data on all… Read More »
Yesterday we ran the first part of our interview with USPTO Director Michelle Lee. Today we’re publishing part two which covers the position of America’s patent system in the world, IP relations with China and the sense that recent… Read More »
New federal rules raising the pleading standards for patent cases will take effect Tuesday, ushering patent litigation into a new era that will require plaintiffs do more than simply put the defendant on notice of the claim…. Read More »
Since she was appointed Deputy Director of the USPTO (and the acting head) and then confirmed as the Director in March this year, Michelle Lee has been in charge during a period of profound change in the US patent… Read More »
In their recent submission to the Washington Post’s series on so-called “patent reform” and “patent trolls,” James Bessen and Michael Meurer repeat the same junk science claims we’ve all heard many times before. In fact, the essay… Read More »
There is a lesson in the latest book by Freakonomics authors Steven Levitt and Stephan Dubner that Washington policy makers would do well to read. The passage from the book, Think Like a Freak, is about the… Read More »
As the legislative patent reform debate remains stalled, new judicially created rules governing certain aspects of patent litigation are set to take effect in a month, thus potentially providing a further reason for reform to stay stuck… Read More »
The Gerald Loeb Award is regarded as one of the most prestigious there is in business journalism. Past winners include some of the profession’s biggest and most influential names. Among them is New York Times columnist Joe… Read More »
As we start to wrap-up 2015 with an eye towards the 2016 elections, our lawmakers will take up several issues that are important to the future of our nation’s economy and healthcare innovation. Kentucky’s innovators are carefully… Read More »
