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New continuation application fees: why and at what cost?
Earlier this year, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) instituted new fees related to the filing of continuation patent applications. As a refresher, a continuation application is a second or subsequent patent application filing that claims the benefit of an...
Entrepreneur’s greedy eye casts at Apple’s pie
Apple Inc. is a company that hardly needs an introduction. Its assortment of iPhones are widely popular in Russia, and Apple holds countless patents to protect its technology. Entrepreneur Artashes Ikonomov filed and obtained patent No. 141791 in 2013 for a cell phone...
UK should move to making patenting of quantum computing easier: UK lags far behind Europe in IP law
The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) may be discouraging innovation in Quantum Computing by making it harder to patent technology in this sector, says intellectual property law firm Mathys & Squire. That risks driving developers of Quantum Computing to...
Register at Early Bird rate for ECTA 43rd Annual Conference ‘Bears on the Loose’ in Berlin!
Register now at Early Bird rates for the ECTA 43rd Annual Conference in Berlin on 18-21 June 2025! This year’s Conference 'Bears on the Loose' 🐻😎 celebrates Berlin’s heraldic bear and the city's vibrant atmosphere. With its melting pot of cultures, rich history, and...
Harvard and Samsung end dispute on semiconductor technologies
Harvard University and Samsung have settled a patent infringement dispute concerning semiconductor manufacturing techniques. On January 28, Harvard dismissed its lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Texax in August of 2024, waiving rights to refile. The parties...
New Innovation Strategy for the UK – Graeme Moore, partner and patent attorney at IP firm Mewburn Ellis, reports
Last month the UK government launched a new Innovation Strategy, which seems to blend a long-term plan to boost private sector investment with increased annual public investment in R&D, in an attempt to put the UK at the front of the global innovation race and...
Jim Belfiore, SVP, Advisory Services and Analytics, comments on on DABUS AI inventor
“It was only a matter of time before a Patent Office awarded an AI agent inventorship given both recent test cases and the growing ubiquity of Artificial Intelligence in the innovation lifecycle. That two have acted in such quick succession may be a sign of things to...
The Australian Federal Court says an AI can be the inventor
The Australian Federal Court has recently handed down a decision that an AI can be named as the inventor in a patent application. The patent application relates to two inventions: a beverage container having a fractal wall; and a signal beacon, both generated by DABUS...
World’s first patent awarded for an invention made by an AI could have seismic implications on IP law
Intellectual property (IP) officials in South Africa have made history in a landmark decision to award a patent that names an artificial intelligence (AI) as the inventor. The patent—which was filed by an international team of lawyers and researchers led by the...
Delayed SEP declaration not a defense to patent infringement – Optis v Apple
By Richard Fawcett, senior associate at Powell Gilbert LLP In the recent Optis v Apple [2021] EWHC 1739 trial in the High Court of England & Wales, Apple ran a novel proprietary estoppel defense against Optis’ allegations of infringement of its Standard Essential...
Patents don’t kill – Marie Barani reports
With the European Commission acting as legislator and regulator, and the European Parliament and Council representing the European executive power, Brussels is home to some of the main European institutions as well as lobbyists. Early July, two ads portraying opposing...
Perkins Coie Adds Partners Ngai Zhang and Drew Schulte to Growing IP Practice
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that partners Ngai Zhang and Drew Schulte have joined the firm’s expanding Intellectual Property (IP) practice in the Washington, D.C., and New York offices, respectively. Ngai and Drew counsel on strategic patent prosecution with a...
LiDAR Innovator Baraja Joins LOT Network in a Defensive Measure to Protect its Innovation and Intellectual Property
LOT Network, the international community of the world’s leading high-tech companies committed to protecting its members from costly litigation from patent assertion entities (PAEs, also known as “patent trolls”), recently announced that Baraja, a LiDAR innovator and...
Intellectual property litigator and PTAB pro Brent Babcock joins Loeb & Loeb
Loeb & Loeb is pleased to announce the arrival of Brent Babcock as a partner in its Patent Litigation & Counseling department and as the chair of the firm’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Trials practice group. Brent brings nearly three decades of patent...
New Clarivate report identifies battery capacity and charging technologies as key to accelerating electric vehicle adoption
Judgement in patent trial will stifle business innovation and investment, agricultural machinery manufacturer Claydon Yield-o-Meter believes.
Huawei reaches license agreement with Volkswagen’s supplier, marking the company’s largest automotive licensing deal
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