Tag: ipr
How Challenging Low Quality Patents is Lowering Drug Prices
The FTC made headlines in May when it announced it was challenging over 300 “junk” patents in the FDA’s “Orange Book,” including patents on popular drugs like Ozempic and Victoza. With this ...
The PREVAIL Act: A Step Backward for Patent Policy
How often does someone offer you an option that is not only cheaper and faster, but also better? Not very often, I would guess.
Yet that is what is provided to patent litigants via patent val...
Study Confirms That PREVAIL Act, Patent Office ANPRM Proposals Will Hurt the Economy
A study from the Perryman Group – an economic and financial analysis firm based in Waco, Texas – confirmed that proposals contained in both the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO...
Correcting the Record on the PREVAIL Act
Earlier this month, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held a hearing to discuss Reforming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board – The PREVAIL Act and Proposals to Promote U.S. I...
Patent Office’s Proposed Restrictions on Validity Review Would Hurt Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises
New rules floated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in its April Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), followed by the PREVAIL Act’s introduction in Congress, have generated c...
Helping NPEs PREVAIL Over Innovators
Last month, Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership Act (PREVAIL) Act. Under the guise of promoting...
USPTO Invalidates VLSI Patent—So Why Didn’t They Review It The First Time?
Earlier today, the USPTO issued its final written decision in IPR2021-01064. The final written decision found that all challenged claims in VLSI's patent were in fact invalid.
So what makes t...
New Report Reaffirms Danger Patent Trolls Pose to Manufacturers, Small Businesses
People whose business models are threatened by strong post-grant review and improved patent quality continue to assert that non-practicing entities (NPEs) and the patent troll narrative is a myth or a...
OpenSky’s Sanction and Continued VLSI Patent Review are Both Warranted
Over the past few weeks there have been major developments in the much-discussed dispute related to patents held by the non-practicing entity VLSI Technology. On Patent Progress we have previously wri...