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USPTO Should Be Applauded for Notice on Patent Transparency
In a round of good news, the USPTO has published a notice that it will be holding a roundtable on January 11, 2013 to look into regulations to “require greater public transparency concerning the own...
Supreme Court Grants Cert in Myriad
Moments ago the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Assoc. for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., et al. (Supreme Court docket 12-398)
The Court limited its grant to ...
Lessons from Apple v. Motorola in Wisconsin
The FTC’s recent consent order in its merger review in In the Matter of Robert Bosch GmbH – a combination of manufacturing companies that make air conditioning recycling, recovery, and recharge p...
The SHIELD Act Is a Step in the Right Direction
The SHIELD Act is an important step in the process of common sense patent reform where it is most needed: computer hardware and software patents. The Act introduces a “loser pays” rule in compu...
Life after David Kappos: What should President Obama look for in the next head of the US Patent and Trademark Office?
Numerous outlets reported Monday that the current head of the Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), David Kappos, would be stepping down. While we have disagreed with Kappos at Patent Progress, espec...
Vanishing Licenses – How International Bankruptcy Rules Could Threaten the Networked Patent Economy
Why should the patent community care about developments in cross-border insolvency law? Though the topic seems esoteric, there are some important practical reasons to pay attention to what’s happe...
Reflections on Patent Prom and the Silicon Valley-DC Divide
I just returned from five days in Silicon Valley to my Washington, DC home. For years, I have been one of the many people who have sat at the intersection of the Silicon Valley-DC gap on key policy ...
FTC and DOJ Looking at Trolls under Antitrust Authority
A Sunday article in the Wall Street Journal reports the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) are devoting “huge energy, particularly at a senior level” to assess the impa...
Patent Progress at Patent Prom
Today is the Santa Clara Law High Tech Law Institute “Solutions to the Software Patent Problem” Conference. (#HTLI is actually trending on Twitter!) Josh has been live-tweeting it on @Patent...