Sometimes the sheer stupidity, posturing, and lack of insight by policymakers are breathtaking. As a form of virtue signaling, the Biden administration has just announced U.S. support at the World ...

Washington got one right for a change. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s proposed new “One Challenge” rule may finally ...

To say that Elon Musk is a risk-taker would be a bit of an understatement — after all, you’re talking about a guy whose side hustle is space travel. He’s known for betting big, and not always to ...

Software patents are generally directed to a sequence of steps or rules, i.e., an algorithm, performed by a computer programmed to carry out the algorithm. Because algorithms are inherently functional ...

India's latest amendment to its Patent Act revolutionized the country's IP regime by introducing a product patent for pharmaceuticals. Ahibhusan De and Uma Baskaran of Krishna and Saurastri explain ...

EDITORIAL NOTE: What appears below is based on remarks by Manny Schecter, IBM’s Chief Patent Counsel, at the USPTO Patent Quality Summit on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. I speak to you today from the ...

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Aristocrat Technologies will require software patent drafters to take more care to describe algorithms covered by their software--or risk patent invalidity.

Ask any client what he or she expects from the lawyers who are handling his or her work, and invariably the answer you receive is that the work must possess “quality.” Everyone wants to know that when ...

On 18 January 2022, the ratification of the Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application (PPA) by the Austrian Parliament was notified to the Council of the European ...

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