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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced that a pilot program has helped reduce gender disparity in patent applications granted. According to Yale Insights, researchers found that women inventors are less likely to have their patent a… Read More

What’s the metaverse, and why is it important to brand and trademark owners? According to Wired, Broadly speaking, the technologies companies refer to when they talk about “the metaverse” can include virtual reality—characterized by persisten… Read More

Many – perhaps most — inventors don’t make the things they invent. Instead, they try to earn money from their inventions by licensing their patents to others. Some companies make money from licensing patents without inventing anything at al… Read More

Back in 2021, we wrote about how a Unitary EU Patent and EU Patent Court (UPC) might finally come into existence in 2022. According to the European Patent Office (EPO), the new system will offer users of the patent system a “cost-effective option f… Read More

The Federal Circuit has denied a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to direct the district court to dismiss or transfer the underlying case based on improper venue, finding that remote workers living in the district can satisfy the venue statute… Read More

On September 30, 2022, President Biden signed into law the SBIR and STTR Extension Act of 2022, just one day before the funding authorization for these programs was set to expire. As the press release notes, S. 4900 reauthorizes the Small Business In… Read More

In a recent case before the Federal Circuit, INVT SPE LLC (INVT) appealed from a determination by the International Trade Commission (Commission or ITC) that Apple Inc., HTC Corporation, HTC America, Inc., ZTE Corporation, and ZTE (USA) Inc. did not… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a ruling by the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) that a prior art reference was not “by another” under the terms of (pre-AIA) 35 U.S.C. § 102(e). Under 35 U.S. Code § 102, “novelty” is a condition for p… Read More