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 »
In the final quarter of 2016, plaintiffs filed 1,140 patent cases, bringing the total for 2016 to 4,520 patent cases. The fourth quarter represents a slight increase over the third quarter’s 1,126 cases, but overall litigation in… Read More »
Charlie Sauer is one of those people whose work eludes simple characterization. He works on Capitol Hill as an economist, policy specialist and a respected leader who has worked for former U.S. Sen. Kit Bond (R-IA) and… Read More »
Recent changes to the U.S. patent system — emanating from both Congress and the courts — have pushed U.S. investment money overseas. To China, to be exact. In his closing remarks to a recent Inventing America and IPWatchdog… Read More »
A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that, between 2000 and 2016, the number of patent applications with a man listed as the primary inventor was more than triple the number of… Read More »
