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Alan Minsk's guest post on Patentlyo touches on some important issues in an ongoing discussion about increasing transparency in the patent marketplace. The... Read More »

As the dust begins to settle on their latest round of infringement suits, Samsung hasn't fared as well as it had hoped against Apple's legal teams. This week... Read More »

A new medical device contest went online today. The contest relates to a device for inserting sutures and suture anchors. The prize is $3000, and the contest will run... Read More »

Dilligent Patexia users may have noticed a new type of contest recently appear on our site: “commercial use” or “licensing” searches. In fact, ... Read More »

Wired reports that a small-crop soybean farmer potentially infringes on Monsanto's patent for pesticide-immune-soybean seeds--in a case being argued in front of... Read More »

NPR talks with scientists who have turned to crowdsourcing to fund their projects. Not only does this provide an excellent new source of funding for researchers (if... Read More »

While the rest of the world seems to be catching up in other fields of innovation,  the US still dominates in the realm of the ultra-small. Reuters reports on a... Read More »

The BBC reports that a deceased Dutch programmer held patents claiming features similar to Facebook's. Joannes Jozef Everardus Van Der Meer was granted patents... Read More »

Tomorrow, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will tackle the divisive issue of software patent assertions. Prominent tech companies claim that there needs... Read More »

This Supreme Court faces this important question after agreeing to review the Federal Circuit decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics. The... Read More »

A main goal of the patent system is to incentivize innovation within an economy. Investment in the research and development of inventions can be substantial. Without... Read More »

The White House's "We the People" petition service allows the public to suggest matters for government consideration. The internet didn't take long... Read More »

"We could get sued!" "By who?" "Everybody... nobody... who knows?" Samsung's recent Super Bowl ad hilariously satirizes... Read More »

Technology companies are easily left behind in the world of consumer technology. A post in December of last year highlighted the importance of constant innovation in... Read More »

District Judge Koh issued four orders in the wake of last year's Apple/Samsung decision. The court found that 1-- Apple's patent is NOT invalid (which Samsung... Read More »

Innovators have flooded the patent system with applications. Previous articles at Patexia have focused heavily on problems related to this sharp increase in... Read More »

Two weeks ago, on the first day of the new year, the world collectively switched to a new way of thinking about innovation. The switch was to a harmonized, collective ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

A certain patent-holding company wants to enforce its patent--that is, prevent another company from making and selling the invention described in that patent. That... Read More »

Nokia, RIM, Motorola, Google, Apple and Samsung. In 2012, they captured our imaginations by pushing the boundaries of mobile technology and our media attention by... Read More »