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Undoubtedly, 2012 was a big year for the intellectual property world. Significant developments not only in the United States at the USPTO but around the world will... Read More »
"In a sense, the patent system is itself a prize system, albeit a peculiar one."
In a 2007 paper Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University professor and... Read More »
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Looking back on 2012 and ahead to 2013, the... Read More »
Early this week the European Union finally accomplished what has long seemed highly unlikely--a unified European Patent known as the "unitary" patent... Read More »
When Google purchased Motorola earlier this year, their intent to monopolize on Motorola's
well-established patent portfolio was clear. As a result... Read More »
The non-practicing entity (NPE) model of accruing patents holds a delicate position in the patent sphere. In theory NPEs could help spread innovation, but in... Read More »
Whenever it comes time to scapegoat someone in the IP world, “patent troll” is the pejorative of choice. Even in polite company, “non-practicing... Read More »
The America Invents Act focused largely on the question of priority rights to patent inventions. The new legislative language described changes to patentability... Read More »
Patents, the heart of our intellectual property system, do not have a straightforward value. But they are property; individuals and organizations can maintain... Read More »
This articles is the last of a four-part series examining the USPTO’s role in administering the patent system. Other articles in this series: Part I... Read More »
What is crowdsourcing?
Crowdsourcing is not a unique invention of the internet era, but modern connectedness has helped it come into its own. It is the process of ... Read More »
This articles is the second of a four-part series examining the USPTO’s role in administering the patent system. Other articles in this series: Part I... Read More »
Each country has its own patent system, and no authority can issue a patent enforceable in any other country. Because today’s increasingly global economy... Read More »
This articles is the second of a four-part series examining the USPTO’s role in administering the patent system. Other articles in this series: Part I... Read More »
Last week’s article detailed prior art and patentability, and defined prior art as all information pertinent to a patent that was publicly available before that ... Read More »
This article is the first of a four-part series examining the USPTO’s role in administering the patent system. Other articles in this series: Part II: Human... Read More »
Patents exist to promote innovation. By granting a federally recognized documents to inventors with a new idea, the government is able to make these ideas public... Read More »
Automation has increasingly found its way into the agricultural world, but has yet to make significant inroads in the fields of viticulture. Recently, French designers ... Read More »
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory evaluated 36 commonly used smartphone applications. Principle investigator Hal... Read More »
This weekend, Apple doubled their previous one-day sales record (merely one million orders in the first twenty-four hours) for preorders of the iPhone 5. Apple still... Read More »