Posts in Technology & Innovation
The U.S. Patent System is Still Worth Saving
Much deserved criticism has been leveled at the U.S. patent system in the last decade or so, from all sides. No one branch of the system …
This is What’s at Stake if WTO Removes Protections for Lifesaving Medicines
Experts agree: The COVID-19 vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest achievements. The previous record for vaccine delivery was almost five years; today’s innovators delivered the …
FDA Resists FOIA Request for Vaccine Approval Info as Biden Administration Offers to Share it with the World
From the “one hand doesn’t know what the other hand is doing” category, believe it or not, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is effectively refusing …
Quantum Computing Takes Off: A Look at the Evolution of Quantum Technology and Patents
Towards the end of 2019, I was finishing a book, AI Concepts for Business Applications. The last chapter was titled, “The Future.” I wrote about quantum computing and …
Iancu, Locke and Kappos Slam Biden Administration’s Support for COVID IP Waiver in New White Paper
Former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Directors Andrei Iancu and David Kappos, and former Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, today released a White Paper calling …
The State of the SEP Ecosystem: Eight Takeaway Messages from SEP 2021
Last week, IPWatchdog hosted its annual SEP conference, which once again took place in virtual format. I either moderated or directed/produced all the panels, so I …
Tai Tells Tillis Support for COVID-TRIPS Waiver is Not Political but Based on ‘Extraordinary Circumstances’ of the Pandemic
Following four letters sent by Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) to United State Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai regarding the proposed waiver of intellectual property rights under the …
WIPO Report Shows Economic Resilience During Pandemic, Buoyed by Massive Numbers of Chinese Patent, Trademark Filings
On November 8, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released its World Intellectual Property Indicators 2021 report, the latest WIPO annual report to detail global IP filings across patents, …
Desperate Heroism and the Thunder of a Quiet Revolution: The Rise of China’s Economy and IP System
On October 16, 2021, as I contemplated lessons from my nine years in China, the Financial Times broke a story that rocked the world—especially the U.S. military: “…
Virtual SEP 2021 Day One: Panelists Weigh in on the State of the SEP Ecosystem and More
tandard Setting Organizations (SSOs) exist as a mechanism for industry innovators to work together to collectively identify and select the best and most promising innovations that will …
Judge Upholds UK Power to Set FRAND Terms
A judge has affirmed the ability of the UK courts to settle FRAND terms of a patent license covering foreign patents, despite the defendants challenging the court’…
Patenting Trends in Emerging Technologies: Blockchain Patents Grow from Three to 2,660 in Less than Five Years
Blockchain’s history begins in 1991, when Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta published a paper describing a cryptographically secured chain of blocks. It took another 18 years before …
Great Inventors are Industry Outsiders and Must be Protected
Every once in a while, a new invention changes an industry and sometimes even the world. In grade school, we all learned about some of these great …
Financial Institutions Face Fork in Patent Road
Large banks have a reputation for being slow to change. However, in the past decade, the financial services industry has seen the wholesale adoption and implementation of …
IP/Antitrust Policy Changes are Afoot in the Biden Administration’s DOJ
The intersection of intellectual property (IP) and antitrust law is again a hot debate after a recent speech by the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division’…
