Patent

One would think it was ripped from today’s headlines: a deadly respiratory disease sweeps across the world—killing one person every 22 seconds. But this disease is not COVID-19. The threat…

USPTO’s Drew Hirshfeld on Proposed Changes to Requirements for Patent Bar Registration: It ‘Just Makes Sense’

March 22, 2021

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) earlier today published a Request for Comments in the Federal Register asking for public input into proposed changes to the…

How to Choose the Next Federal Circuit Judge: Stick with Experience

March 21, 2021

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the nation’s patent court, is at a crossroad. Today, unlike in earlier decades, nearly all its cases are patent-related, yet, to my…

The Fairness of FRAND: Patent Pools, SSO Policies and the Way Forward

March 20, 2021

Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), as the name suggests, are an essential set of patents used for the implementation of a standardized technology. This set of patents renders it impossible to…

Mysterious Patent Attacks: Policymakers Must Stand Up and Require Patent Membership Organizations Reveal Themselves

March 19, 2021

Litigation, Patent

A strong and predictable intellectual property system is crucial to protecting and promoting American innovation around the globe. It allows American businesses of any size to compete globally, creating millions of American jobs.…

EPO Patent Index 2020 Underscores Sharp Rise of China as Global Tech Giant

March 18, 2021

On March 16, the European Patent Office (EPO) released the Patent Index 2020, which gives the public a snapshot view of the filing activities going on at the EU’s patent…

Patent Filings Roundup: Canon(ball) Runs to the ITC; District Court Filings Spike

March 17, 2021

Litigation, Patent

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) filings held at 25 this week, with one post grant review (PGR) and 24 inter partes reviews (IPRs); district court patent filings jumped significantly,…

Patenting Simulations at the EPO: Decision G1/19 and Its Consequences for Computer-Implemented Inventions

March 16, 2021

The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) recently published its decision No. G1/19 on patentability of simulations. There was great anticipation for such a decision, after…

Copyright Holders Can Restrict Framing, Says CJEU

March 15, 2021