Mar 12, 2019 | Intellectual Property law, News
By Gary S. Shuster It is important to remember that a patent does not give anybody the right to do what the patent covers. For example, if I had a patent on a more effective delivery system for MDMA or LSD, having a patent doesn’t change the fact that those...
Jul 18, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
The Restoring American Leadership in Innovation Act of 2018 was recently introduced by a bipartisan group of members of the House. The Act reverses a lot of the damage that has been done to the US patent system in recent years as a result of restrictions on the value,...
Jul 17, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
It was 2006. RIM/Blackberry just settled a patent infringement case for $612.5 million. US patent law had been largely stable for decades. The Chinese government was not all in on IP. The US government ran the world’s best patent system, and “Designed in...
Jun 5, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
President Trump’s new head of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Andrei Iancu, recently noted that uncertainty about what kinds of innovation are patent-eligible is weakening investment, growth, and jobs in high tech industries: I do worry that the...
May 30, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
Inventors keep filing for patents, despite a fairly hostile judicial atmosphere for patents (such as declaring patents are no longer private property, adding new limitations on where patentees can bring suit against infringers, weakening the standard for invalidating...