How is this possible? How are a few icons potentially worth almost half a billion dollars, when courts threw out Apple’s other patent claims on watershed UX breakthroughs like slide-to-unlock, ...

“Patents offer a historical record, not just of major technology turning points, but also of the kinds of incremental innovations that underpin national economic growth.” The United States Patent and ...

“While abolishing or overly weakening our current patent system might not lead to the precise situations described above, it is important for all of us to know about the past and be aware of the ...

A new book pulls from the more than 750,000 design patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) since 1900, bringing together a fascinating range of products, including cars ...

DPS Parmar of LexOrbis considers the wealth of case law in which prosecution history estoppel has helped to adjudicate on patent issues, and explains the implications for patentees The grant of every ...

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Counsel explain how the USPTO’s decision to discretionarily deny institution of a PTAB case affects their advice to clients A recent Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision could encourage firms to ...

Patents are used to establish the primacy of an invention or innovation. The US Patent Office was started in 1790 and has been keeping records of every great (and weird) American invention since then.

To the extent that they cross our minds at all, we generally think of patents as good things: rewards for meritorious inventors. It might seem, then, that stronger patents would lead only to good ...