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Patent Fun Facts:

July 19, 2018 Patent

Try rolling these out at the bar tonight.  You’ll be the life of the party!  Here goes: The USPTO issued its 10,000,000th patent on Tuesday June 19, 2018.  That’s 10 million patents.  The 10 millionth patent is owned by Raytheon and addresses LADAR range-finding technology, as used in self-driving cars. In 1997, the USPTO issued about 100,000 patents.  In 2007 […]

Supreme Court to Consider the On-Sale Patent Bar

July 12, 2018 Patent

Love ’em or hate ’em, we have the most enthusiastically activist Supreme Court in memory. The Supremes are taking on another patent case, this time relating to the on-sale patent bar.  In general, when the Supreme Court decides a patent case, the law is in worse shape than it was before. As a refresher for […]

Supreme Court Decides Patent Death Squads are (at least partly) Constitutional

June 14, 2018 Patent

We previously described the evils of inter partes review, by which administrative panels within the USPTO kill issued patents with wild abandon.  Former Chief Judge Rader of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals described inter partes review panels as ‘death squads killing property rights.’  A constitutional challenge to inter partes review was recently decided by the […]

The Audacity of [Patent] Hope

April 12, 2018 Patent

There are people who wish that the U.S. patent system would just go away.  Their allies successfully lobbied for and passed the ‘America Invents Act’ back in 2011 that resulted in the USPTO patent death squads, also known as the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).  As we described last month, the PTAB kills patents with impunity […]

China Embraces Patents in a Big Way

February 15, 2018 Patent

Fifteen years ago, China did not have much of a patent program.  After all, with a centrally controlled economy and no private property, what good was a patent? Much of that has changed, at least the private property part. The Chinese government identified homegrown innovation and improving the ‘made in China’ brand as crucial to […]

It’s Halloween! Time to Preserve Corpses

November 16, 2017 Patent

It’s Halloween, which, of course, means that it’s time to preserve corpses. Consider Joseph Karwowski’s invention (U.S. patent 748,284 issued December 29, 1903*).  Joe was a Russian national (‘…a subject of the Czar of Russia’) living in New York state.  He was presumably impressed by the ability of waterglass (sodium silicate, or Na2SiO3) to preserve fresh […]

Science and the Court: Let’s Get Educated

November 9, 2017 Intellectual Property, Litigation

In the recent argument before the US Supreme Court about gerrymandering, Gill v. Whitford, a mathematical formula was presented to the judges that requires adding together two numbers (“wasted” vote totals) and dividing the sum by a third number (the total number of votes cast.) This formula is called the “Efficiency Gap” and lawyers told the justices […]

We’re Number 10! We’re Number 10!

October 20, 2017 Patent

Each year for the last five years the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has published a massive report on the state of global intellectual property protection.  The report is, frankly, staggering in its ambition.  It provides a report card for IP protection for forty-five countries around the world, including patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. The report gives us […]

Ask Dr. Copyright about What is Intellectual Property

September 22, 2017 Intellectual Property

Dear Doc: At times, you write about copyrights. At other times, you write about patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and other legal mumbo-jumbo. I’m confused. What’s all of that got to do with intellectual property? Signed, Inquiring Client   Dear Inqy: Back in the dark ages, when the Doc passed the bar, things were pretty clear. […]

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