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This week in Other Barks & Bites: Chinese state political advisors suggest changes to the country’s copyright law, including stronger punitive measures for infringement; President Donald Trump bans Huawei telecommunications…

Jamie Love Responds to Criticism of Knowledge Ecology International Letter

May 15, 2019

On May 12, Frederick Reinhart published an article titled “Knowledge Ecology International Letter Misleads on March-In Rights.” Reinhart is a past president of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM),…

Knowledge Ecology International Letter Misleads on March-In Rights

May 12, 2019

Recently, Knowledge Ecology International sent to Congress a letter objecting to the draft “Green Paper on Unleashing American Innovation” disseminated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in…

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, May 10: Congress and Trump Crack Down on Pharma, Amici File Briefs in Acorda, and USPTO to Modify Patent Term Adjustment Procedures

May 10, 2019

Business, Copyright, Litigation, Patent, Trademark

This week in Other Barks & Bites, IPWatchdog’s IP news roundup: the House of Representatives passes drug patent legislation, while antitrust legislation targeting patent-related activities is introduced into the Senate…

Patent Trends Study Part Seven: Industrial Design

May 9, 2019

Yesterday, we looked at trends in the medical device industry. Today’s article pertains to Industrial Design, which was limited to design patent protection. The term of a design patent is…

Patent Trends Study Part Six: Medical Devices Industry

May 8, 2019

In the sixth installment of our 13-part patent-trends study (performed in collaboration with GreyB) providing high-level data across industries, we will examine trends in the medical-device industry. The United States…

Patent Trends Study Part Five: Automotive Industry

May 7, 2019

It has been a wild decade for the automotive industry, with U.S. auto brands almost dying in the Great Recession. Federal government intervention rescued brands and attempted to turn them…

Alice Five Years Later: Hope Wanes as 101 Legislative Discussions Dominated by Big Tech

May 5, 2019

Business, Litigation, Patent

On June 19, it will be five years since the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, 134 S.Ct. 2347 (2014), which significantly changed the way…

Other Barks and Bites, Friday, May 3: CASE Act, China Leads in 5G SEPs, and SCOTUS Requests Government’s Views in Oracle v. Google

May 3, 2019

Business, Copyright, Litigation, Patent, Trademark