Innovation, Technology, and IP News

International Women's Day is a time to celebrate the contributions and achievements of women across all industries. In the field of... Read More »

In an economy where intangibles increasingly drive economic growth, reporting to shareholders, lenders, and the market more generally on... Read More »

In U.S. technology news, Heliogen, Inc., a renewable energy technology company, recently announced its selection to receive a $4,100,000 award from ... Read More »

ITC Administrative Law Judge Sandra "Dee" Lord that was appointed in 2013, already retired in early April. Soon after that, a... Read More »

  The design patents are the second most common type of patent after the utility ones. By obtaining a design patent you will... Read More »

  The current pandemic besides the economic effects on businesses, has caused many social changes as well, such as the shift in the workforce for the... Read More »

In the last few weeks, we have written about patent prosecution spending in the US using our revenue and cost estimation models. First, we estimated the size of the... Read More »

Update: After publishing this article on October 7, 2020, several law firms reached out to confirm their actual patent prosecution revenue which helped us discover a... Read More »

Last couple of weeks, we looked at the impact of COVID-19 and recession on IP, specifically patent prosecution. We concluded that there would be at least two to four... Read More »

Although this list will reach most the readers of Patents4Life after 2019 begins, 2018 deserves some attention even if it has the feel of “those we lost in... Read More »

On December 4, 2017 Galatea Jewelry (“Galatea” or “Plaintiff”) filed a copyright infringement suit in the District Court for the Central... Read More »

The Supreme Court is taking another patent case, granting certiorari in WesternGeco v. Ion. A divided panel of the Circuit had ruled that the plaintiff was not... Read More »

Written by Daniel K. Yarbrough, Ph.D. and Jing Liu, Ph.D. Once considered parasites, free riders, or “opportunistic pathogens,” in recent years the... Read More »

Silicon Valley’s “unicorns” or startups (pre-exit) with a valuation exceeding $1 billion, have been drawing non-stop press with their rapid growth... Read More »

Invention and trademarks – how you do it if you live in Romania? At the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks you can register for patents, utility... Read More »

NPEs historically get a pretty raw deal when it comes to PR, with article after article amounting against the practice of essentially turning patents into... Read More »

Take a look around just about any American city and it’s pretty clear we’re a “culture of Now.” Here in Los Angeles, it’s more apparent... Read More »

'Digital Opportunity' is the report prepared by Prof. Ian Hargreaves followed by a six-month review conducted independently, which was commissioned by the... Read More »