The office of Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), the Ranking Member of the Senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee, has released a first draft of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act, which would overrule the US Supreme Court’s patent eligibility deci…
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The US Senate voted 64 to 33 in favor of passing the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act. Parallel legislation passed in the House of Representatives on the same day and the bill was sent to the White House f…
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As the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) explains, A trademark can be any word, phrase, symbol, design, or a combination of these things that identifies your goods or services. Although most people think of trademarks as things like words (Coca-…
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued new, binding interim guidance on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) discretionary denials of PTAB petitions. As the memo notes, Congress designed the America Invents Act (AIA) post-g…
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced a Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program to expedite examination of certain kinds of climate-related inventions. According to the USPTO, The Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program is designed…
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The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision involving a determination of inventive contribution to several patents. In Google LLC v. IPA Technologies Inc., Google appealed three inter partes review (“…
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According to the European Patent Office, IP-intensive industries made up 42% of all economic activity in the European Union in 2017–which amounts to about €5.7 trillion a year. Making sure that IP can be used to sell a business is an important pa…
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The food industry is a fast-paced and highly competitive market. Companies have turned to emerging technologies to have a competitive advantage in the industry. In 2022, businesses have developed more unconventional techniques to produce food that me…
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What happens to your intellectual property (IP) and digital assets when you die? How can you pass these intangible assets on to your loved ones? This is a big topic, but here are a few things to keep in mind. Taking Inventory of Intellectual Property…
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According to a report issued in early October by the European Patent Office, the United States and countries across Europe, particularly Germany, France, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium, are leading in terms of patent activity for innovat…
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