Patent

We have already published industry roundups on the biggest moments in IP for 2020 and predictions and thoughts for 2021. But the longest running industry insider feature on IPWatchdog is…

Department of Justice’s ‘China Initiative’: Two Year Recap

January 3, 2021

One of the key trade secret trends in 2020 that was not mentioned by James Pooley in his excellent recap of the year’s trends was the continued focus by the…

India and South Africa’s COVID Vaccine Proposal to the WTO: Why Patent Waiver Must Be Considered Over Compulsory Licensing

January 2, 2021

While coronavirus spent the majority of 2020 wreaking havoc on earth, pharmaceutical companies have been busy at work trying to invent a vaccine to combat it. Several companies, such as…

What to Watch in 2021: IP Stakeholders Offer Predictions and Thoughts for the New Year

January 1, 2021

Each December, we ask industry experts to identify what mattered in IP for the previous year, as well as their wildest IP dreams for the new year. In 2017, another…

The Year in Patents: Ten Developments We’ll Remember From 2020

December 31, 2020

As we end 2020— a year most of us probably wish to forget— it appears that after much litigation it is finally safe to call Joe Biden the President-Elect of…

The Top 10 Patents of 2020: From Social Distancing Tech to Facilitating Driverless Vehicles in 5G Networks

December 30, 2020

As the world bids good riddance to 2020, cursed as it has been by the COVID-19 pandemic and its attendant shutdown of major swathes of the globe’s economy, this list…

Top USPTO Developments of 2020—and What to Expect in 2021

December 29, 2020

Patent, Trademark

Novel and non-obvious can be easily used to describe the events of 2020, both here in the United States and around the world. Despite all the challenges, there have been…

Federal Circuit Reflections, 2020: The Good and (Mostly) Bad

December 28, 2020

Litigation, Patent

If you’re looking for some positive patent news from 2020, count the heightened civic awareness of our intellectual-property/innovation policies, as a result of the global pandemic, as a silver lining.…

What Mattered in 2020? Industry Experts Have Their Say on This Year’s Biggest Moments in IP

December 27, 2020