THE IMPACT OF BAD PATENTS ON AMERICAN BUSINESSES What is a bad patent? Congress has established the requirements for obtaining a patent. The patent office grants a patent to applicants when they meet those requirements. It is simple. No trolls involved. If there are bad patents, then either the law is bad,
PTAB, PATENT TROLLS, BAD PATENTS, AND DATA: A WAKEUP CALL TO AIA APOLOGISTS PTAB, Patent Trolls, Bad Patents, and Data Since the PTAB declared two of my Bunch O Balloons patents obvious in an institution decision earlier this year, I have visited with many lawmakers and officials to describe my ordeal: six (6)
US INVENTOR TO PRESIDENT TRUMP: ELIMINATE THE PTAB US Inventor sent a letter to President Trump on September 12 alerting him to the crisis facing the U.S. patent system. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce released an alarming report showing our patent system has slipped from its historic first place to tenth in
39 INVENTORS FILE AMICUS BRIEF IN OIL STATES CASE 39 U.S. patent owners, whose patent protections were overturned by the administrative Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB") of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, filed an amici curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the petitioners of the case
USI STATEMENT ON THE NOMINATION OF ANDREI IANCU TO BE USPTO DIRECTOR ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 29, 2017 – US Inventor President Paul Morinville released the following statement regarding President Trump’s nomination of Andrei Iancu to be Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: “I am cautiously optimistic about President Trump’s
USI'S JOSH MALONE SPEAKS AT THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY Josh Malone, Policy Director at US Inventor and the inventor and founder of Bunch O Balloons, appeared on the Regulatory Transparency Project, a Federalist Society podcast. In 2011, Congress created a new administrative tribunal in the U.S. Patent Office with the power to cancel
US Inventor sets patents on fire as part of PTAB protest at USPTO On Friday, August 11th, inventor rights group US Inventor held an event at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office where the group honored excellence in high quality patent examination. US Inventor also staged a peaceful protest to raise issues surrounding high rates
White Paper: Crisis in American Innovation How the Decline of the U.S. Patent System is Killing Creativity and American Innovation Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution states: The Congress shall have the Power . . . To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times
White Paper: Crisis in American Innovation US Inventor Rally - August 11, 2017 at USPTO in Alexandria, VA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-U6SAvSexg The United States Patent System is in critical condition. The last decade of court decisions, legislation, and management have left inventors without any real protection for their inventions. Many inventors are being
The PTAB: Number One Enemy of Inventors I used think that if I followed the law, applied for a patent, and that patent application was approved, then I would receive a patent that protects my invention. But U.S. patents don’t work like that anymore. They are useless if a big corporation decides
