Apr 20, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
There are plenty of “gotchas” that inventors face. We will list some of these in a future post, but this alone should be enough: Simply leaving out a line in the patent application wiped out a patent that E*Trade was allegedly infringing. There will...
Apr 10, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
My 200th United States patent issued today, titled Device Power and Resource Management. According to data that I analyzed in the blog post I made when I received my 100th issued patent, there are well under 1,000 people in the world with that many issued patents. I...
Mar 13, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
The bargain envisioned in the United States Constitution is that inventors disclose how to practice an invention, making the knowledge available to the world, in exchange for a time-limited monopoly. Such a disclosure would be useless if it were not made available to...
Feb 27, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
Patent owners have long complained that the Post-Grant Review Proceedings (“PGR”) created in the America Invents Act tilt strongly in favor of invalidating patents. The PGR procedures are so effective at destroying patent rights that the former Chief...
Mar 21, 2017 | Intellectual Property law, News
Latches is an equitable doctrine that says you can’t know about a claim you could bring and then wait years before bringing a lawsuit. The idea is that after a while, people should be able to rely on the fact that you haven’t sued to indicate that you...
