Patents

The USPTO is trying to be especially mindful of the outsized impact of the coronavirus crisis on small businesses and independent inventors. 

Everybody active in R&D knows that there are situations when evolution becomes stuck along the way in what we call the innovation gap.

Delve into the foundations of conflict between antitrust protections and IP law - and how they could better support each other going forward.

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The German Constitutional Court delivered another blow to the hopes of those still wishing for an early start of the unitary patent system.

Germany plays a pivotal role in the future viability of the new harmonized system, with a decision of the constitutional challenge likely to be rendered before the end of Q1 this year.

Filing a patent application is critical for the protection of your Intellectual Property, so be sure to be thorough when drafting this document!

A new decade is upon us, and its first two months have veered between ordinary and chaotic. What is sure is that 2020 is primed to feature a significant number of key IP law trends.

The dispute between Google and Oracle over the IP rights to Java code is finally nearing its end in the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court.

From the live-saving to the bizarre, here are a few of the greatest inventions to watch out for in 2020.

Let us consider how authorship of AI-driven inventions is protected and whether the technology itself should be credited as a creator.

While Wifi Internet connection, 4G mobile networking and MP3 music files are well-known standards, hundreds of thousands of lesser-known ones are affecting a wide variety of industries.