Posts Tagged: "Senate’s Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship"

Institutional Challenges to a Reliable Patent Regime for Inventors

What we can, and should, address are institutional challenges. Regrettably, our institutional approach to patents has only further challenged small business and diminished innovation. Those challenges come from changes to our patent law in the America Invents Act (AIA), and precedent that has compromised the exclusive nature of the patent right (eBay v. MercExchange), and rewritten the law of patent eligible subject matter (Alice, Mayo and Myriad). Perhaps most significantly, pending legislation (S. 1137 and H.R. 9), if enacted, will further curtail the patentee’s ability to enjoy the rights granted and to seek just reward for infringement. On top of all this is profound uncertainty as the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) struggles to keep up with these changes.

Brian O’Shaughnessy

February 28, 2016

The Patent System: It is important for America that we get it right

Small businesses and independent inventors are critical to revolutionary advancement of American technology. They file over 20% of the applications at the USPTO, and their patents are more likely to encompass breakthrough inventions, rather than incremental change. While Congress has considered a range of legislative reforms, the other branches of government have also been moving forward with challenges confronting the patent system. It is important for America that we get this right. Thoughtful legislation can further improve the patent system and lead to more job creation and economic growth as long as we remember that it is the patent system fuels America’s innovative spirit.

Robert Stoll

February 25, 2016

USPTO Holds 2d Annual Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium

On Sunday March 25 and Monday March 26, 2012, I attended the Second Annual Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium (WES) in Shreveport, LA. The event was hosted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Honor of Women’s History Month and was put together in collaboration with U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu (D-LA) and the city of Shreveport, Louisiana. WES was held at the Shreveport Convention Center and focused primarily on women entrepreneurs, innovation and the importance of intellectual property to business. I was honored to accept an invitation to present at this year’s event on social media and the importance of developing and leveraging online business relationships.

Renee C. Quinn

April 3, 2012

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