US utility patents have issued at a more rapid pace in the last ten years – see bar graph. While it took almost 15 years (from 1976 to 1991) for one-million US utility patents to issue between US Pat. 4,000,000 and US Pat. 5,000,000, the pace of patenting has...
In July 2020, the US Patent and Trademark Office released a report titled “Progress and Potential: 2020 Update on U.S. Women inventor-Patentees”. Building on the report released in 2019 [reported in AskPat here:...
On June 24, 2019, the Justices struck down as unconstitutional a provision of the Lanham Act (US Trademark Law) that prohibited granting federal trademark protection for “immoral” or “scandalous” material. The case was brought by Erik Brunetti,...
Before the America Invents Act (AIA) went into effect in 2013, 35 U.S.C. §102 barred the patentability of an invention that was “patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year...
Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark of the Delaware District Court recently ruled that the privilege against disclosure in discovery of confidential communications with patent agents is much narrower than the privilege applicable to confidential communications with patent...
On February 11, 2019, the US Patent and Trademark Office released a report titled “Progress and Potential: a profile of women inventors on U.S. patents” on the trends of women inventors named on US patents granted in the last 40 years (1976-2016). Prepared...
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