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
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
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