Tag: to promote innovation
World IP Day: Promoting Progress
Cross-posted on the Disruptive Competition Project.
Today, April 26, is World Intellectual Property Day. And in the U.S., Congress is granted the power to create copyrights and patents—two key ...
The Law of the Patent Instrument
Patents are a useful tool in innovation policy—but they aren’t the only tool available. If all you ever see are patents (and patent lawyers), your natural reaction is to use patents to solve...
Global Innovation Index Highlights The Difference Between Patents And Innovation
The 2019 Global Innovation Index (GII) was recently released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Conceived of as a broad measure of the innovative environment in various coun...
Not Invented By A Human—AI As An Inventor
Recently, a group of patent attorneys—along with the self-proclaimed “patent holder for all neural systems that contemplate, invent, and discover via such confabulations”—has filed a set of pa...
Patent troll supporters are ramping up efforts – a response
Many Patent Progress readers have likely noticed the groundswell of interest directed at addressing the patent troll problem plaguing high-tech innovators. In January, the U.S. Patent and Trademark ...