The Doctrine of Equivalents Isn’t Very Important
Of every 100 findings of direct infringement by U.S. courts,…
IPR Statistics Revisited: Yep, It’s A Patent Killing Field
Some view Inter Partes Review (IPR) as a patent killing field.…
Useful Patent Statistics
The arts of prosecuting, litigating, monetizing and teaching…
FY 2017-2019 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement
On Monday, December 12, 2016, the White House’s Office of the…
联邦巡回法院最新判决授予软件专利保护
012年，当Enfish在加州地区法院中区起诉Microsoft侵犯其专利时，地区法院判定在Enfish专利权利要求中所提及的“在逻辑表中存储、组织、并提取内存”或者“使用数据表结构进行信息组织的概念”指向的都是抽象概念，因此是无效的权利要求。而在上诉过程中，美国联邦巡回上诉法院法官Todd…
Patents for Humanity – The perfect blend of social consciousness, technology, and incentives to create
n 2012, the Patents for Humanity initiative was started to encourage…
Fed Circuit swings the pendulum towards eligibility and away from abstraction
In 2012 when Enfish sued Microsoft the District Court for the…
PTAB Designates Five Precedential Opinions aimed at establishing workable body of law
In a desperately needed release on Tuesday May 10th 2016 the…
Termination of an OED Disciplinary Proceeding: How a SOL Defense may be Properly Construed
Steve Lipman - Guest Author of PatentAttorney.com
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USPTO Design Day 2016
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The Doctrine of Equivalents Isn’t Very Important
Of every 100 findings of direct infringement by U.S. courts, only about 10 are findings of direct infringement under the doctrine of equivalents. This number sheds light on the importance of DOE claim scope relative to literal claim scope. Some applicants may spend a lot of time and energy on the DOE and the nuances […]
IPR Statistics Revisited: Yep, It’s A Patent Killing Field
Some view Inter Partes Review (IPR) as a patent killing field. Yet, the statistics published by the PTO seem to suggest that the patent kill rate in IPR is modest, and other commentators suggest that it’s roughly comparable to the kill rate in district court. The truth is closer to the killing field. Whether this […]
Useful Patent Statistics
The arts of prosecuting, litigating, monetizing and teaching patents can progress only so far without benefit of empirical, quantitative data. To that end, we’re gathering up the most useful patent statistics available today. Most of them are little known, because they come from a wide variety of scattered sources where they are typically presented in […]