I've routinely used ZDNet as a bully pulpit directed at both the sellers and buyers of technologies who look to establish or adopt certain standards that have patents connected to them. When a ...

Intellectual property (IP) protection can be a vital part of a company’s journey from young upstart to billion-dollar behemoth, safeguarding all its technologists’ hard work while adding to the ...

As we await the next Update from the Patent Office on subject matter eligibility, it may be worthwhile to consider further the role of examples given in the past by the PTO. The Patent Office’s July ...

Kintera, a company in San Diego that leases software that helps nonprofit organizations raise money online, has submitted 13 patent applications to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The ...

On January 27, the USPTO provided its promised set of examples of patent-eligible and patent-ineligible claims relating to the abstract idea exception to 35 U.S.C. § 101, in light of Alice Corp. v.

Masato Iida of Shiga examines examples of patent claims related to antibody drugs, assessing which data is included in claims Patent Law Article 36, Paragraph 6, Number 1 defines a so-called "support ...

Example 35 provides three hypothetical claims directed to fraud prevention by verifying the authenticity of a customer’s identity prior to proceeding with a banking transaction. Id., p. 8. The Patent ...

“Unfortunately, not nearly enough individuals and companies are seeking design patent protection. In 2019, for example, there were 46,847 design patent applications filed, which represents 7.01% of ...

Introduction A patent pool, in simple terms, is a contractual arrangement by which several patent owners/holders license one or more of their patents to one another or to third parties.  The major ...