US INVENTOR, INC. SUES US PATENT OFFICE US Inventor, Inc. sued the US Patent Office (USPTO) to stop patent validity challenges at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) until the required, official rulemaking regarding the procedure has been done. The America Invents Act of 2011 (AIA) created an administrative
THE LOSS OF INVENTOR RIGHTS - A CONCISE DESCRIPTION In recent years, inventors lost the ability to stop corporations from taking valuable, patented technologies. Inventors and startups cannot find funding to create new companies and compete with big tech. Due to the loss of patent rights, we are losing our innovators,
CHINA HIJACKS US PATENT SYSTEM TO STEAL AMERICAN INVENTIONS China’s comprehensive innovation plan includes exploiting our own faulty and inadequate laws and institutions for their gains and our losses. Chinese companies are now leveraging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to their advantage, invalidating hundreds of
INVENTOR ACTIVISM HELPS STOP BAD PATENT LEGISLATION Inventor Activism At Work Inventors and their supporters made a good showing in this week's Senate debate over legislation to help the U.S. compete with China in innovation. We are calling it a success as our efforts contributed to Majority
PATENT RIGHTS - INVENTOR RIGHTS - WHERE DID THEY GO? There was a time in America when inventors and small business innovators were cherished for their invaluable and, at times, disruptive, creations. Their contributions helped make the American Dream real to virtually anyone, through advancing technology as well as providing
Unintended Consequences? U.S. Code Title 35 The proof is that inventors, the very group the American Patent System was created for, have been shut out of hearings. In the Senate, The PATENT Act got through the markup without a single inventor being allowed into a single hearing. For the House’s Innovation Act,
