Over the past decade and a half, virtually every branch of the federal government has taken steps to weaken the patent system. As reflected in President Joe Biden’s July 2021 executive order, these restraints on patent enforcement are… Read More »
The Patent Infringer Lobby has ramped up banging the drum about “patent quality.” They dedicated a week-long campaign to questioning “patent quality,” which its constituents regard as a huge problem. Advocates have taken advantage of the vacuum left… Read More »
In Supreme Court session postmortems, don’t expect mention of any change in course from the vast injury it’s inflicted over the past dozen years on patent eligibility. Why does this matter? Because the high court has done as much or more… Read More »
“It felt sometimes like the PTAB was making it up as they went along,” said Gene Quinn, founder and CEO of IPWatchdog, in an interview with former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu regarding the Patent… Read More »
To increase society’s supply of pickles, increase monetary demand for them. Increasing the supply of America’s most important product — innovation — is more complicated. It involves money that fertilizes a culture that nurtures talented individuals. Solving… Read More »
In celebration of last month’s World IP Day, Senate Judiciary Committee Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chairman Patrick Leahy expressed his support for a determined effort to encourage more individuals and small companies across this country to invent new technologies… Read More »
The United States and China are engaged in a new Cold War, and China intends to win. While China has increased its techno-totalitarianism against Hong Kong and its own citizens, a greater threat to America and the… Read More »
U.S. policymakers apparently do not recognize the connection between imprudent court decisions and artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies that will determine our nation’s security and economic strength in the 21st century. But their counterparts in… Read More »
For many of us visions of the future have often included images of robots who can think on their own and perform tasks. In some visions, those robots were in a Jetson’s style universe with floating objects and… Read More »
Intellectual property (IP) rights in general and patents in particular are commonly characterized as, at best, a necessary “monopoly” granted to correct weak private incentives to invest in generating innovations that can be easily imitated by others. In… Read More »
