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After USPTO Director Michelle Lee resigned quite suddenly on Tuesday, rumors and speculation have been the only constant. Early speculators bet that Drew Hirschfeld, current Commissioner of Patents, would get the job. (He is best known to me as the one who…
A new report by the Brookings Institution notes a troubling recent reversal in U.S. green patenting activity. Specifically, the report found that the total number of clean tech patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office between 2014 and 2016…
In tomorrow's Federal Register , the USPTO is announcing a public symposium on issues relevant to the protection of trade secrets, and to assess recent developments such as the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA). The symposium will be held on May 8, 2017,…
In a few short years China’s patent system has gone from an IP rights wannabe to one of the most responsive and patent-friendly systems in the world. Leading U.S. IP experts say that underlying this rapid evolution is a desire for China to become a…
Written by Scott Siera, Ph.D. and Agnes Juang, Ph.D. Patent applications containing nucleic acid or protein sequences are required to include an electronic sequence listing using a required format and standard symbols. The United States Patent and…
The Trump Administration and the Republican led Congress have a mandate to get this economy moving again and if they want to maintain power they better produce results fast. To jumpstart the economy we need more than infrastructure projects (seems like we…
This week at Patexia, our Data Science Team investigated third quarter changes in the number of registered patent practitioners. Examining data from the USPTO Practitioner Roster, we saw that at the end of the second quarter , there were 44,424 registered…
On January 12, 2016, President Barack Obama announced his goal of a nationwide “Cancer Moonshot,” with the ultimate goal of accelerating cancer research “to end cancer as we know it” during his State of the Union Address. As a part…
With a number of reform options on the table in the House, the Senate proposed PATENT Act has been the hot topic over the past weeks. The PATENT Act was introduced by by Senator Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Leahy (D-VT) on April 30, 2015. It is comprised of…
Currently there are two competing patent reform bills making the rounds in Congress: Representative Goodlatte’s Innovation Act of 2015 and the Strong Patent Act of 2015 proposed by Senator Coons. These two bills have been drawing heated debate in…
The White House just announced the nomination of former Deputy General Counsel for Google, Michelle Lee, for the next director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The nomination is one in a series positive steps taken by the White House towards…
Two weeks ago, on the first day of the new year, the world collectively switched to a new way of thinking about innovation. The switch was to a harmonized, collective hierarchy of categories for the world’s IP organizations to think about classifying…
