Imagine inventing something, patenting it, building a successful company around it — and then seeing a much larger rival steal your idea. For too many inventors and entrepreneurs, that’s not a hypothetical. It’s a nightmare they have… Read More »
I’ve been interested in cardiac health since 1966, when my father, Rep. Carl Albert, had his first heart attack. (He recovered and served as House speaker, 1971-77.) I have published many scientific papers and received scores of patents…. Read More »
President Biden recently warned that America is losing its technological edge. “We used to rank number one in the world in research and development,” he said. “Now, we rank number nine. China was number eight decades ago;… Read More »
While many rights in the Constitution are defined vaguely, the Founders laid out one right explicitly in that important document: the right to a patent. They saw the limitless opportunities of the Industrial Revolution and wanted to… Read More »
I have never seen an environment in my 30-plus years in the intellectual property arena as hostile to inventors as what has emerged over the past decade. Three major culprits are responsible for this trend, making it… Read More »
America’s innovation infrastructure depends on the protection of intellectual property — the patents, trademarks, copyrights and other mechanisms that secure for inventors and creators the fruit of their hard work. The IP system is a bit like… Read More »
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Intellectual Property Subcommittee, has two pieces of legislation he’d like to get through Congress before retiring after 50 years. To do so, he’d need the support of… Read More »
Over the last 15 years, the United States Supreme Court has mutated patent eligibility into an impossibly complex and confusing mess. The Court’s current eligibility test strays far from Congress’s original intent, erodes trust in predictability, and… Read More »
In his op-ed “Patent Litigation Is a Matter of National Security” (Sept. 11), former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey claims that the NHK-Fintiv ruling—a 2020 reform implemented by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office—forces the “targets of meritless infringement… Read More »
A bipartisan group of senators just introduced a bill that’d make profound changes to America’s patent system. As its name — the “Patent Trial and Appeal Board Reform Act of 2022” — suggests, the bill concerns the… Read More »
