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
C-SPAN AIRS US INVENTOR RALLY AT USPTO Patent and Trademark Policy Protest and Inventor Rally Patent-holding inventors talked about their displeasure with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), a three-judge panel they said was weakening U.S. patent law. In a show of protest, some of them
BLOOMBERG: "INVENTORS TORCH PATENTS OUTSIDE PTO, DECRY REVIEW PROCESS" About a dozen inventors in town for a conference set their patents aflame in front of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office headquarters Aug. 11 to protest what they called an unfair administrative system for invalidating patents. The passage of the America Invents
BBC Covers US Inventor Rally at USPTO US Inventor Rally The world-renowned BBC covered the US Inventor rally on August 11 at the US Patent and Trademark Office, with the headline: "America's inventors vent over patent infringement." The BBC News site adds that American inventors claim, "a board created by Obama to prevent
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 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
$17 million: The real and staggering cost to patent in the US in the PTAB age $17 million: The real and staggering cost to patent in the US in the PTAB age, by Josh Malone Published by IPWatchdog At least $17 million. That is what my Bunch O Balloons patent has cost so far.
