Tag: patent reform
Patent Rights at Risk?
The patent system can spur research and development in a health crisis, but public health advocates may see patents as barriers to better patient health outcomes.
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Missed Opportunity
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement has been approved by both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, clearing the way to replace the defunct North American Free Trade Agreement of 1993. But the deal completely omitted expanded protection for biologic drugs.
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Upside and Upside-Down
That was the patent world of 2019: Everyone was wrong, everyone was right, because no one knows which way is up anymore. We have officially entered the upside down.
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‘It Is a Mess’
With different people and agencies and courts going in different directions in the United States, we’re looking to the UK and Germany to hopefully provide certainty. In the United States, there is no certainty, which continues to make it very difficult for businesses.
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Circuit, Justice Go Haywire
What is rapidly becoming routine to the patent litigation industry will create shock waves throughout the other 12 circuit courts, upend the rule of law, and damage our nation.
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Absurd Attack
If R Street wants to investigate a national security issue, as it claims, it should be investigating the abusive use of U.S. antitrust laws by the Federal Trade Commission against Qualcomm.
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Freedom to Compete
From legislation weakening patent rights to supporting court cases that further erode patents, big companies are trying to pull away the economic ladder to success from their nascent competitors. The STRONGER Patents Act fights for the rights of the garage inventor.
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Honeymoon’s Over
Despite promises to the contrary, Iancu hasn’t reined in PTAB abusesUnder the current system, the patent owner has to win every time, and the fight is not over until the patent owner loses.
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STRONGER Hope
“The STRONGER Patents Act takes critical steps to strengthen patent protections and promote American innovation and job creation.”
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One Crucial Word
Restoring the U.S. patent system comes down to cooperation. The other side that has wanted to have patents eroded have been enormously coordinated in their efforts. Those of us who are on the pro-patent side have been fractured.
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Put Down Your Weapons
Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) have written U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu, raising a concern about what can be characterized as the weaponization of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
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101 Crisis? Blame the Federal Circuit
Court must return to first principles to determine subject-matter eligibility. Somewhere along the way, the federal circuit has forgotten what we all learned as first-year law students.
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