Patent litigation continues sharp downturn, while grants bounce back The number of patent cases filed declined again in 2016, continuing a downward trend from the high point reached in 2013. Approximately 5,100 cases were filed in 2016,… Read More »
Fewer patent lawsuits were filed in the first three months of 2017 than in any quarter since 2011, while the number of inter partes review petitions challenging patents reached a record high, according to a report released… Read More »
Members of the United States innovator business community have delivered a letter to President Trump requesting that the US Patent and Trademark Office be exempt from the federal hiring freeze announced in January. The 5 April letter [pdf] was… Read More »
A group of IP advocacy groups, industry bodies and companies have written to President Trump to highlight the impact of the ongoing government hiring freeze on the USPTO and, more broadly, on US innovation. In one of his first… Read More »
Under pressure from a string of expensive failures and a shrinking pool of patent-protected biotech drugs, global drugmakers are increasingly turning outward to find new breakthroughs. READ MORE
The Innovation Alliance has joined with other patent-protecting groups to ask the Trump Administration to exempt the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from its hiring freeze saying the freeze will add even more “pending” items to… Read More »
China’s ZTE Corporation overtook its crosstown rival Huawei Technologies as the biggest filer of international patent applications via WIPO in 2016 and U.S.-based Qualcomm Inc. claimed third position amid another year of strong demand for WIPO’s intellectual… Read More »
Each economy in the Index presents a unique IP profile. As this Index has grown from 11 economies in its first edition to 45 in the current publication, it has become exceedingly clear that just as elections… Read More »
Innovative industries, including biomed and tech, have put the Hudson Valley on the map and attracted researchers, entrepreneurs, and startups to New York state. Expert panelists shared their thoughts on growing innovation in New York, the impact… Read More »
A coalition of conservative leaders and groups are furious over what they call the Federal Trade Commission’s “midnight complaint “against smartphone chip manufacturer Qualcomm Inc., and they are pushing President Donald Trump to do something about it…. Read More »
