Category: Patent & Other IP Offices
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An interview with Manny Schecter, IBMâs former patent chief
âMy biggest challenge was the constant need to educate inventors and business executives about IP and its importance for innovation,â Mr. Schecter, who served as IBMâs chief patent counsel for 14 years, told ip fray.
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âLimitedâ UPC impact on global pharma patent strategies, interim licenses debate, âseismicâ changes at the PTAB: highlights from Patent Litigation Europe
An overwhelming consensus that life sciences companies prefer to litigate in parallel national courts rather than in the UPC, and an intense debate about the use of interim licenses over arbitration, were among the highlights of the second and third days of Kisacoâs annual Patent Litigation Europe in Amsterdam this week.
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UPC success rate, EPO convergence debate and changing the âstatus quoâ: day one of Patent Litigation EuropeÂ
ip fray breaks down the highlights from the first day of the fourth annual Patent Litigation Summit Europe, which featured a full day agenda dedicated to Unified Patent Court Litigation discussions.
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Canadian Solar gains victory in U.S. solar panel infringement dispute against Maxeon: all patents-in-suit invalidated
The USPTO PTAB has invalidated three of Maxeonâs solar panel technology patents, granting Canadian Solar a major win in the ongoing solar panel patent infringement wars.
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Make SEPs Great Again: after President’s memo on 6G, USPTO forms SEP Working Group “to renew American leadership in technology standards”
With President Trump’s 6G memo before and the USPTO’s SEP Working Group announcement after Christmas, standards and the related patents get unprecedented political attention.
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Quantum-related patents increased fivefold in past decade, but high barriers to adoption: OECD-EPO report
While the number of international patent family applications has surged fivefold since 2014, 80% of companies in the sector do not have quantum as their main activity, and Europe faces notable challenges in commercializing its technology.
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UK consultation on SEP legislation closed two months ago, and they can already scrap their plans because of what has happened since
The UK government gave stakeholders 12 weeks to comment on its vision of global FRAND resolution, but the following month the landscape changed.
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USPTO Director Squires encourages fairer, more consistent patent eligibility in latest memoranda
USPTO Director John A. Squires reminds applicants and examiners that when used properly, Subject-Matter Eligibility Declarations can be effective, encouraging examiners not to reject patent applications too broadly.
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USPTO upholds core Proxense patent in Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Google invalidation cases
Biometrics firm Proxense has bagged a key win in ongoing big tech patent litigation, after the United States Patent & Trademark Office upheld a key patent following a review requested by Samsung.
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USPTO Director Squires continues pro-patent enforcement march: IPR petition institutions remain low, submits first-ever public ITC comments
The United States Patent and Trademark Officeâs low institution rate, together with its first-ever public comments to a United States International Trade Commission (ITC) investigation endorsing the ITC as a forum for adjudicating patents, underline Director John A. Squiresâs pro-patent and pro-patent enforcement agenda.