The United States Patent and Trademark Office is tasked with the job of reading patent applications and determining which ones qualify for patent protection. It
Scientific and technological innovations are forcing patent law into the spotlight and revealing its many glaring inadequacies. Take, for example, the patent ca
Before 1982, rebutting a patent's presumption of validity generally required clear and convincing evidence. The standard would shift to a preponderance of the e
As reflected in the Federal Circuit's fractured opinion in CLS Bank v. Alice Corp., there is no greater confusion in contemporary patent law than that surroundi
The metaphor of the patent bargain, the notion that a patent represents the grant of the right of exclusivity in exchange for the disclosure of a novel inventio
