Category: Patent & Other IP Offices
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USPTO Director Squires announces new ex parte reexamination measure to make patent revocation harder
The U.S. patent market has split reactions over the new process, which is designed to help the USPTO âefficiently and effectivelyâ address the recent increased volume of ex parte reexamination requests.
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An overview of Chinaâs patent proceedings
ip fray provides an overview of CNIPA patent administrative proceedings, including procedural steps, review processes, and key features â as well as the interaction between the patent infringement and administrative proceedings.
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USPTO Director Squires looks at PTAB IPR petitions through national security as well as economic policy (domestic manufacturing) lens
USPTO Director John A. Squires has recently issued a memorandum to PTAB users and a precedential denial of institution of an inter partes review. In either context, PTAB IPRs are put into a broader policy context.
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Acer divests U.S. communications patent to NPE amid Nokia, Ericsson litigation
Acer has recently reassigned one of its electronics-related patents to a U.S. non-practising entity, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Officeâs assignment records, as the company continues to battle Nokia patent infringement claims and bring its own against Ericsson.
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USPTO, DOJ file 3rd joint pro-injunction brief since June in standards-RELATED but NOT undisputedly standard-ESSENTIAL patent case: next stop Wilus v. Askey?
Patent holder Collision said that its patents-in-suit were not standard-essential and Samsung did not raise a FRAND defense, but Collision later made infringement arguments that were standards-related.
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Federal Circuit’s incredible multiverse: dead patent claim gets fictionally resurrected to justify part of $40M+ damages award
This is the oddest Federal Circuit ruling in a long time. Most of it is anything but odd, but allowing a patentee to capture the value of invalidated claim elements is remarkable.
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U.S. value-based patent tax plans scrapped
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has confirmed that his plans to impose a 1-5% tax based on the value of granted U.S. patents will no longer be âgoing anywhereâ. He stated during a Subcommittee hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee: âHow in the world could we do that? How in the world could anyone reasonably…
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Cross-border injunctions âhave their placeâ but can be âbig askâ: Sandoz Global Head of IP Julia Pike
There is a place for cross-border injunctions, but in more nuanced cases (such as Regeneron v. Advanz) itâs a âbig askâ for one country to take that decision itself on behalf of all those other countries, the companyâs Global Head of IP Julia Pike has told ip fray.
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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.