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In 2012, Chinese inventors filed more patent applications than those in any other country--including the United States. In a recent Booz & Company report (Ed: now Strategy&) , the authors surveyed many major Chinese and multinational companies to explore…
Undoubtedly, 2012 was a big year for the intellectual property world. Significant developments not only in the United States at the USPTO but around the world will mean a very different landscape in years to come. Looking back at the some of the…
This articles is the last of a four-part series examining the USPTO’s role in administering the patent system. Other articles in this series: Part I: Introduction . Part II:Human Resources . Part III: Databases . In previous articles we introduced a…
This articles is the second of a four-part series examining the USPTO’s role in administering the patent system. Other articles in this series: Part I: Introduction . Part II:Human Resources . Part IV: Experts and Expertise . Last week I explored…
This articles is the second of a four-part series examining the USPTO’s role in administering the patent system. Other articles in this series: Part I: Introduction . Part III: Databases . Part IV: Experts and Expertise . This article will examine…
This article is the first of a four-part series examining the USPTO’s role in administering the patent system. Other articles in this series: Part II: Human Resources . Part III: Databases . Part IV: Experts and Expertise . For 215 years the United…
March 16th, 2013 will see the US embrace a more internationally standard patenting system: first to file (America Invents Act, or AIA). In fact literally every other country uses first to file as opposed to the US first to invent, kind of like that…
Intellectual Ventures paints itself a champion of innovation and a liberator of inventors. More and more detractors consider the patent private equity firm steered by polymath Nathan Myhrvold a giant patent troll. Not long ago, Intellectual Ventures was…
When the Framers drafted the U.S. Constitution, they conferred upon Congress the right to grant patents to authors and inventors for their writings and discoveries. Under the first-to-invent system currently utilized in the U.S. prior to this year’s…
US patent law has a number of messes and one of the purposes of the America Invents Act is to do some housecleaning. The area of false marking is an excellent example -- not simply of a mess that needs to be cleaned up, but also of how the AIA may…
This is the middle article of a set of three on the effect of the America Invents Act. The first article discussed the First-Inventor-to-File system changes, the status of an Internet "publication" and the new "micro-entity" for…
The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (P.L. 112-29) has changed the patent law landscape more thoroughly than any legislation since the Patent Act of 1952. The First-Inventor-to-File (FITF) provisions of the AIA have received the greatest attention. However,…
