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As of late, the spike of clean energy technology innovation is slowing down in the United States, during a time that the Trump administration is aiming to drastically cut government research spending in the industry… The slump in clean energy patents is a direct result of the downturn in oil and gas prices, according to Morico. “When oil was trading at over $100 per barrel just before the crash in 2014, there was a lot of investment going into renewable/clean energy. After the prices of oil crashed, investors started cutting back their investments in renewable/clean energy because the costs of many of these technologies couldn’t compete with low oil and gas prices,” he explained.

The relationship between PTAB proceedings and parallel district court litigation may be altered significantly. The arguments in Wi-Fi One vs. Broadcom this week may change a lot about PTAB. In fact, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has announced that it will hear the question of whether certain decisions of the PTAB that are entered at the beginning of America Invents Act (AIA) trials.

Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international law firm, announced that Wayne Stacy and Sarah Guske will be joining the firm’s San Francisco office as Partners in the Intellectual Property practice group. They will join Stuart Plunkett and Jonathan Shapiro who joined the firm in May.