While the US patenting environment has changed dramatically in the past two years, high-tech startups still need to pursue patents—but with ...

The doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting (“OTDP”) is one of the most complicated aspects of U.S. patent law, but the U.S. Court of ...

I recently provided a set of interesting data on the large number of patents that are “at risk” of being invalidated based on the Federal Circuit’s Cellect decision. This post follows up with a ...

This is a bit of an in-the-weeds question, even for Patently-O. Because firms tend to operate within a certain market area and use a particular technological approach, it makes sense that a patentee ...

“Let’s end the fallacy that obviousness-type double patenting by an assignee is authorized by U.S. statutes, or that Congress prescribed its antidote. We are witnessing what happens when a substantive ...

Patents represent a contract between an inventor and society. By granting time-limited market exclusivity, patents create the potential for inventors to generate high returns on successful innovations ...

You've just invented the greatest product known to mankind—or at least you think so. And you know that you must quickly protect this brilliant idea with a patent because someone will surely steal it ...

Although issues related to patenting by faculty at academic medical centers have been the source of much controversy, there is little systematic evidence of the growth of these activities, their ...