“SIR, PLEASE SIR! put down the trade secret, take two steps back and put your hands where I can see them.” Cue the Dragnet music and, in your best Sergeant Friday voice, repeat after me : “You have the right…
On September 16, 2011, the President signed into law, thereby enacting, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, resulting in sweeping patent law reforms. Passage of this legislation represents the culmination of years of debate by Congress to effect patent law reform…
Preparing, filing, and prosecuting patent applications to obtain new patents (also referred to as “patent procurement”) is expensive, and about 95% of patents never even become valuable enough to recoup their procurement costs. This column is the fourth in a…
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