Industry Reaction: Supreme Court upholds Federal Circuit in Cuozzo (This article first appeared in IPWatchDog) On June 20th, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee, which may not have wide-reaching implications on the U.S. patent landscape but will nonetheless be troubling to patent owners.
How the Supreme Court legislated patent reform (This article first appeared in IPWatchDog) In my high school civics classes, I learned that the people created the American government by granting only certain rights to it. The rights we didn’t grant, we kept for ourselves or the States. I learned that law is
Inventors, Startups and Investors Amicus Challenges Constitutionality of IPR (This article first appeared on IPWatchDog) National and local inventor clubs across the U.S. along with early stage investors and small patent centric startups came together to support a very important case. Together we represent the core of the American job creation engine
News of the Week – May 26th Orders to U.S. factories for long-lasting manufactured goods rose in April by the most since January. But much of the strength came from a surge in the volatile category of commercial aircraft. A key category that tracks business investment fell for a third straight month,
UPCOMING: US Inventor at the Pittsburgh East Inventors Club - June 30th Visit with US Inventor's Paul Morinville at the Pittsburgh East Inventor Club Meeting on June 30th. Address: 4000 Gateway Campus Blvd. Monroeville, PA
News of the Week - May 13th On May 11, 2016 – after years of bipartisan negotiation resulting in widespread support from both sides of the political aisle, as well as from the business community, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA), the long-proposed legislation that establishes a
Amicus Support of MCM This is a request to participate with US Inventor in an Amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of MCM Portfolio. This case is asking the Supreme Court to find IPR procedures at the USPTO unconstitutional for two reasons. The first is a separation of powers issues
On the Road: San Diego Inventors Forum The San Diego Inventors Forum recently named US Inventor's Paul Morinville, Inventor of the Month. Paul appeared and informed the group on the latest intellectual property and patent bills coming out of Congress. </center.
Patent litigation venue reform tips scales of justice against innovators Last year around October, the infringer lobby began a public relations campaign placing countless articles and op-eds villainizing the Eastern District of Texas (ED TX) in publications across the country. This appears to be the first step in cannibalizing H.R.9, the Innovation
No consensus that broad patent ‘reform’ is necessary or helpful (Originally appearing in The Hill) Two recent op-eds published in The Hill argue that broad patent legislation—misleadingly labeled “reform”—is needed because the U.S. patent system is fundamentally broken. In the first, Timothy Lee contends that opponents “cannot with a straight face” argue
