by djschaff | Feb 24, 2014 | Commentary
Patent-seeking inventors may spend countless hours perfecting that grand idea that sparked its way into their brains while returning from a hunting trip–in the case of that useful adhesive we know as velcro–or while watching a cat pull feathers through a...
by MTTLR ADMIN | Feb 18, 2014 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News
Non-practicing entities (NPEs) are nothing new in the world of patent litigation, but this past October, NPE litigation reached a new level when the Rockstar Consortium filed an infringement suit in the Eastern District of Texas. Rockstar Consortium (not to be...
by bjunter | Sep 11, 2013 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News
In case you haven’t seen it, WIPO has an interesting tool that allows you look at patent data for different years and different countries. I thought it might be interesting to look at how the industries receiving patents have changed over the last 30 years. The...
by sandc | Feb 16, 2012 | Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations, Technology
The USPTO recently announced a new awards competition called Patents for Humanity. The competition is a pilot program meant to encourage the development of technology to meet humanitarian rather than strictly business means. The prize? Accelerated processing of the...
by jmacpher | Oct 23, 2011 | Quick Links
Last week, following the denial of its petition for a panel rehearing, the ACLU announced that it will seek to bring the much-debated Myriad Genetics case before the Supreme Court. Among other things, the case involves the patentability of isolated DNA – pieces of...
