The U.S. Supreme Court has muddied the waters about patent eligibility in a way that threatens American innovation. Capitol Hill is beginning to discuss this as a possible legislative issue for 2019. Some would say it is… Read More »
Thank you Jim for that introduction, and for inviting me today to participate in the Advanced Patent Law Institute. As the Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division, I spend most of my time with antitrust lawyers… Read More »
America is unique in its tradition of protecting individual ingenuity to spur new technologies and new industries that allow this country to be the cradle of innovation. It is no accident that America was the birthplace of… Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Alliance for U.S. Startups & Inventors for Jobs today released a detailed analysis highlighting the problem of serial inter partes reviews (IPRs) at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Patent Trial and… Read More »
In 2003, after many years of research, scientists at Ohio’s premier health care research institution, the Cleveland Clinic, made a groundbreaking and lifesaving discovery — they determined how to detect an enzyme called myeloperoxidase in the human… Read More »
On Friday, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open the “Gateway to Culture,” part of a new “Arts and Culture” wing that will be devoted to music, sports and entertainment. It is the first of… Read More »
Remarks delivered at the Eastern District of Texas Bar Association Inaugural Texas Dinner Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Andrei Iancu October 18, 2018 Arlington, Texas As prepared for delivery Good evening everyone, and thank… Read More »
These are heady times for some intellectual property (IP) advocates in technology and academia. A coalition of like-minded parties has leveraged the misdeeds of certain nonpracticing entities (pejoratively referred to as patent trolls) to successfully bring about… Read More »
Over the past decade, the U.S. patent system has been under an extensive amount of stress from all branches of the federal government. The Supreme Court has injected a tremendous amount of uncertainty into the patent system… Read More »
Here’s a little quiz: What do virtually all the world’s greatest innovations of the last 150 years — and all the huge job-creating new industries they spawned — have in common? Simple. They were all launched by… Read More »
