Two years ago the USPTO, academics and some of the biggest companies in the US embraced the peer-to-patent project as a way of tackling mounting patent backlogs. In June the pilot scheme was suspended ...
The U.S. Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) serves as a gatekeeper for innovation, yet its approach to processing patents remains fairly manual and boilerplate. Paralegals in intellectual property (IP) ...
In 2006, Research in Motion, the maker of the once-ubiquitous BlackBerry device, had to pay $612.5 million to a patent holding company, NTP. Also known as “patent trolls,” these are people or ...
Chunguang Hu of China PAT explains why his ‘insider’ experience as a patent examiner benefits clients and why he wants to ...
“If you wish to avoid or mitigate potential 101 rejections up front, it might be worth reconsidering the claim language at the outset to avoid potentially problematic interpretations.” U.S. patent ...