Five years ago this month, the first “inter partes review” began, a process laid out in the America Invents Act, which was passed in 2011. In a piece of legislation that was timid in its scope, the ...

A new website called Peer-to-Patent intends to harness the power of online collaboration to streamline patent review. By creating a community around each application, the site facilitates public ...

Patent prosecution is the term used to describe the entire process by which a patent application is examined by a patent office and either granted or rejected — encompassing everything from the ...

The patent process can be overwhelming and quite costly for an inventor who wishes to secure patent protection on their invention. But there are certain steps of the process that should not be ...

May 16, 2025 - In 2011, the America Invents Act (AIA) created a system by which litigation defendants, special-interest groups, or any member of the public could challenge the validity of an issued ...

Guest Post by Shawn Miller, Professor of Practice, University of San Diego School of Law; CodeX Fellow, Stanford Law School; Creator, Stanford NPE Litigation Database Just a week ago, I began dusting ...

Fearn AI has raised $5.5 million of new funding as it seeks to scale its AI-powered patents service for start-up businesses ...

The second step in bringing your medical device to market is to understand whether you can protect your invention. This article is part two of a series that presents the three big issues in ...

Nearly everyone who isn’t a lawyer agrees: intellectual property law is a mess. And the monopolies granted by patent and copyright law have begun to hamper the very innovation they were designed to ...