2022: Patent Litigation Mid-Year Review 2022: Patent Litigation Mid-Year Review As the first half of 2022 concluded, rulings from the Federal Circuit courts and the United States Supreme Court altered the application of existing law by expanding the scope of estoppel claims, broadening the requirements… Continue Reading
Patent Market Update 2022 Patent Market Update 2022 Inventors and patent owners interested in entering the patent marketplace typically find out rather quickly that the market is heavily opaque and difficult to navigate. This is in part due to buyers’ prevalent use of cloaked… Continue Reading
2021: Highlights From Patent Litigation 2021: Highlights From Patent Litigation Patent litigation was front-and-center in 2021. Following the cessation of jury trials due to Covid-19, 2021 saw a (mostly) return to business-as-usual in patent law. The United States Supreme Court issued multiple important opinions in… Continue Reading
Patent Litigation: 2021 Mid-Year Review Patent Litigation: 2021 Mid-Year Review During the first half of 2021, the number of patent cases filed before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Federal district courts have continued to trend upward from Q1 2020, increasing by 4.3%… Continue Reading
Your Patents Could Be Worth A Lot More (Or Less) Than You Think Your Patents Could Be Worth A Lot More (Or Less) Than You Think From their origins as the blueprints for innovation, patents have evolved into tangible, increasingly important financial assets for large companies and startups alike, complete with their… Continue Reading
How Long Does It Take the USPTO to Grant a Patent Application? How Long Does It Take the USPTO to Grant a Patent Application Lengthy delays in granting patent applications have been a hallmark of the application process for many years. Several factors are contributing to the delay including: – The complexity… Continue Reading
2020 Highlights from the Patent Landscape: ICT Patent Litigation 2020 Highlights from the Patent Landscape: ICT Patent Litigation The following is a breakdown of how patent litigation affected the patent market and particular technologies. It is not a legal synopsis of the cases and should not be considered to be… Continue Reading
2020 Highlights from the Patent Landscape: Granted Patents 2020 Highlights from the Patent Landscape: Granted Patents 2020 was an unprecedented year, with the coronavirus pandemic taking a toll both socially and economically. However, despite the economic climate, patents maintained their slow climb back to being valuable assets, and… Continue Reading
How Much Is My Patent Worth? Where to Begin with Patent Valuation How Much Is My Patent Worth? Where to Begin with Patent Valuation Determining the potential value of a patent portfolio can feel like a complex, even impossible, task. Though businesses and inventors alike rely on innovation to remain competitive, the… Continue Reading
How a Patent Broker Can Increase the Value of Your Portfolio How a Patent Broker Can Increase the Value of Your Portfolio The patent market is a very opaque and inefficient marketplace. Most transactions are confidential, and most companies don’t provide insight into whether they have interest in buying patents or… Continue Reading
The Patent System Has Abandoned Inventors The Patent System Has Abandoned Inventors The American patent system was hijacked by large tech companies, who have become so unstoppably big that the government is stepping in. Yet it didn’t need to happen this way. . They are not… Continue Reading
Why it’s so important to understand your sellers when buying patents Why it’s so important to understand your sellers when buying patents The team at Richardson Oliver Insights (ROI) recently wrote an article offering advice to patent sellers on how to effectively market and sell your patents. There is some strong… Continue Reading
How to Beef Up Your Patent Budget . How to Beef Up Your Patent Budget Convincing senior management to increase an IP department’s budget can be one of the biggest challenges for in-house counsel, but there are some straightforward steps they can take to get more bang… Continue Reading
Patents Have Entered the Upside Down . Patents Have Entered the Upside Down In a landscape of amorphous patent rights, shifting legal precedence, toothless expert opinions, fluctuating patent values, and deafeningly silent Supreme Court justices, the U.S. patent system has been a display of the absurd.… Continue Reading