Tag: inter partes review
The Patent Examination Process Shouldn’t Be An Oversight
Director Iancu will be appearing for his first oversight hearing tomorrow, Wednesday, April 18. This follows on his recent speech at the Chamber of Commerce, at which he emphasized two areas of focu...
Like A Horror Movie Villain, The STRONGER Patents Act Returns
Since the STRONGER Patents Act was introduced last year, it’s basically been a dead topic. Maybe that’s because the bill would gut the extremely successful inter partes review procedure and ove...
“The Same Or Substantially The Same Prior Art Or Arguments”
Director Andrei Iancu has been making the rounds since his confirmation. In a recent interview, he suggested that “[t]here is, for sure, a perception problem in the IP community with the PTAB�...
Senate Introduces Bill To Prevent Abuse Of Sovereign Immunity
Yesterday Senators Cotton, McCaskill, Toomey, Ernst, and Perdue introduced the Preserving Access to Cost Effective Drugs (PACED) Act, a bill which would help prevent sovereign immunity from being abus...
PTAB Rejects Allergan’s Tribal Sovereign Immunity Claim
On Friday, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a ruling rejecting Allergan’s sovereign immunity claims.
As Patent Progress has previously described [1][2][3], Allergan sold their patent...
Innovation Is Alive And Well—Patenting Activity
After examining the evidence for U.S. innovation as shown by startups and venture capital, and by R&D spending, I want to look at patenting activity—new patent applications and new patent grants...
Chamber of Commerce Patent System Ranking Is Built On A Shaky Foundation
The Chamber of Commerce produces a yearly ranking of intellectual property systems around the world. This year, they dropped the U.S. patent system to 12th. If I thought their rankings had any mer...
Dear Director Iancu
So, you’re Andrei Iancu, about to be the newly confirmed Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. What are the first things you put on your agenda?
I have some suggestions.
Elim...
Starting Off 2018 With More Sovereign Immunity
2018 started off with a sovereign immunity bang, with the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe filing a motion that implicitly suggests that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) would only rule against them d...