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Since all the other commentators are posting about this Notification, I thought I should say a few words as well. The USPTO will eliminate the filing fees for applicants who agree to publish their COVID-19-related provisional applications in a PTO-managed…
Last couple of weeks, we looked at the impact of COVID-19 and recession on IP, specifically patent prosecution. We concluded that there would be at least two to four percent decline in the number of applications for the next couple of years ( Patexia…
In early March we released our 2nd Annual Patent Prosecution Intelligence Report , where we evaluated more than 3,500 patent firms over the last five years (Jan 1, 2015 through December 31, 2019). We looked at many metrics such as number of office actions,…
Bill Delayed for Stakeholder Feedback With June’s flurry of Senate hearings on the subject of patentable subject matter (i.e., 35 U.S.C. § 101), the previously announced plan was to release a draft reform bill in July. The draft was to be based…
2015, 2017, 2018, 2019… The Stronger Patents Act just wont go away. While the bill has been introduced several times over the years, it has never gotten any significant traction. Since its initial introduction, several of the bill’s Patent…
The number of U.S. issued patents from 2014 to 2018 grew by 3.6%. In 2014, the U.S. patent office granted a total of 326,038 patents. This number grew to 337,699 in 2018. However, not all companies enjoyed the same rate of growth. During this five-year…
Written by : Bridget A. Smith & Philip M. Nelson On May 22, 2019, a bipartisan committee of the U.S. Senate and House released a draft bill on § 101 reform, in a further attempt to reduce procedural obstacles for patent applicants. The draft bill…
For both patent Applicants and Patent Office Examiners, the Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice Corp. v . CLS Bank International decision has created ongoing uncertainty as to the proper scope of subject matter that should be excluded from patent protection.…
On April 19, the USPTO released a Memorandum from Robert Bahr, The Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, that summarized the support required for a finding if a claim directed to a judicial exception to s. 101 eligibility under Step 2A of the…
On March 6, 2018 the USPTO announced that it has started a pilot program that makes it easy to report specimens that have been digitally created, altered or fabricated. Third parties that believe that an application contains suspect specimens can now send…
The number of bitcoin and blockchain patents and published patent applications has been rising exponentially in the past few years, with a motley group of companies leading the race. Recent public and private sector interest in cryptocurrency signals new…
Bill Would Effectively End PTAB The STRONGER (Support Technology & Research for Our Nation’s Growth and Economic Resilience) Patents Act was unveiled in the U.S. Senate this week. This is the newest incarnation of a previously stalled bill known as…
