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Samsung Takes Over As The Largest Recipient Of U.S. Patents
According to recently released data from IAM/ktMine, Samsung is now the largest recipient of active U.S. patents in the world.[1. While IBM is the largest single corporation recipient each year, Sam...
April Madness Is Here
March Madness is over, with the Big Ten not taking home a championship. (A sad day for Michigan fans like me.) But that’s okay—in April, the Big Ten Network has plenty to keep busy with. &nb...
Why Is The ITC Instituting Investigations On Expiring Patents?
Yesterday, the ITC published the Federal Register notice of the initial determination of an ITC administrative law judge (ALJ). The ALJ determined that the investigation, instituted in January based...
Fee-Setting Reauthorization Bill Introduced In Senate
Senator Coons has long been interested in strengthening patents. While some of his efforts, like the STRONGER Patents Act, would actually harm the U.S.’s innovation economy by strengthening patent...
Courts Will Swipe Left On Tinder’s Suit Against Bumble
Tinder swiped right on a lawsuit against Bumble last week, but their lawsuit has more than just surface flaws. Tinder’s lawsuit alleges a number of forms of intellectual property violations—but ...
Like A Horror Movie Villain, The STRONGER Patents Act Returns
Since the STRONGER Patents Act was introduced last year, it’s basically been a dead topic. Maybe that’s because the bill would gut the extremely successful inter partes review procedure and ove...
“The Same Or Substantially The Same Prior Art Or Arguments”
Director Andrei Iancu has been making the rounds since his confirmation. In a recent interview, he suggested that “[t]here is, for sure, a perception problem in the IP community with the PTAB�...
Senate Introduces Bill To Prevent Abuse Of Sovereign Immunity
Yesterday Senators Cotton, McCaskill, Toomey, Ernst, and Perdue introduced the Preserving Access to Cost Effective Drugs (PACED) Act, a bill which would help prevent sovereign immunity from being abus...
Granted In 19 Hours
Patent examiners have an extremely hard job. They’re given a patent application—which could be anywhere from a page long up to hundreds of pages, with patent claims ranging from a couple sen...