With the European Commission heading towards a second reading of its patent legislation, there's still more heat than light in discussions on the subject. The UK Patent Office (UKPO) has of late been ...

The European Parliament (EP) has enlisted the help of intellectual property lawyers to amend the directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions so that companies are prevented from ...

“The reality is that the term patent troll seems to be more in the eye of the beholder than anything else.” Over the last several weeks “patent trolls” have been back in the news. The mother of all ...

The U.S. patent system is once again coming under scrutiny for its vague definition of what can be patented. On Feb. 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit revisited CLS Bank ...

The Federal Circuit recently held that a patentee acted as its own lexicographer to define a claim term even though it did not explicitly define ...

New USPTO rules confirm that AI can support the invention process, but only humans can legally claim inventorship under U.S.

As nearly everyone in the United States “Patent World” is likely aware of by now, on Friday, September 16, 2011, President Obama signed the patent reform legislation recently passed by Congress. The ...

An organization that uses its patents to generate revenue without manufacturing the products that the patents pertain to. The patents are often purchased from a third party, which may be bankrupt or ...

Tomotoshi Shimano of Shiga International Patent Office examines the implications of recent High Court decisions relating to the interpretation of ‘working of a patented invention’ IP High Court (IPHC) ...

The existence of prior art isn’t always readily evident when companies in the device and diagnostic spaces file patent applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). As it turns out, ...

David Cavanaugh of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Photo Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM The twisting, turning saga of Illumina and Ariosa Diagnostics has taken another detour. On Monday the ...