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The USPTO Claims it Wants to Ensure ‘Robust and Reliable’ Patents – But Its Questions Imply Another Assault on Patent Owners

IP Watchdog

Patent owners, especially small businesses and independent inventors, need two things of the patent system: 1) Reliability/believability. We need patents that are respected when they are issued. We use many different strategies during patent prosecution. We do not want any doubt about their validity.

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USPTO Patent Fees Reduced for Small Businesses

The IP Law Blog

In some industries, patents may even be essentially required to enter the market and compete successfully. However, the cost of obtaining and maintaining patents may be a barrier for individual inventors and small businesses to benefit from the advantage or enter certain markets.

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Patent Continuation Strategies Face Major Threat

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch Impact of Sonos on Patent Prosecution : The recent Sonos v. Google decision threatens to grind to a halt, or at least significantly restrict, a once-common patent prosecution strategy – keeping continuation applications pending for years to obtain new claims that cover marketplace developments.

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USPTO Patent Fees Reduced for Small Businesses

LexBlog IP

In some industries, patents may even be essentially required to enter the market and compete successfully. However, the cost of obtaining and maintaining patents may be a barrier for individual inventors and small businesses to benefit from the advantage or enter certain markets. had a gross income.

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It is Time to Tell Your Eligibility Stories

Patently-O

The agency would like input from various stakeholders, including inventors, owners, investors, licensees, users, and patent attorneys. The agency appears to be looking from key insight regarding the actual experience of parties involved — telling a story of the impact of patent eligibility doctrine.

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USPTO Requests Input on Patent Eligibility from Critical Sectors Impacted by Current Law

The IP Law Blog

Step 2: If the claims are directed to an abstract idea, then the court determines whether the claims include elements showing an inventive concept that transforms the idea into a patent-eligible invention. Patent attorneys and inventors are often left to guess whether a particular invention is patent-eligible.

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Year in Review: One-Year Anniversary of President Biden’s Competition Executive Order

U.S. Department of Commerce

companies to engage and influence international standards that are essential to our nation’s technology leadership and that will enable the global technology markets of today and tomorrow,’ said Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Laurie E. Locascio. ‘A as Asian American or Pacific Islander and 1.5%