to allow for a post-grant opposition process and address the large patent application backlog by allowing applicants to … pay for more rapid patent reviews. • Authorizing corporate entities to form digitally and use software as a means for …

The USPTO receives more applications today than it ever has before. What happens to those applications? Patent … available, because the law prevented anyone from every finding out what happened to patent applications that did not ultimately …

just such a blind market. Want to know if you're getting a good deal on a patent license, or acquiring rights in a … technology? Too bad. Even if that patent or ones like it have been licensed dozens of times before, the terms of those licenses …, including the price itself, will almost invariably be confidential. Patent owners who want to put their rights up for sale face …

Patent law is crucial to encourage technological innovation. But as the patent system currently stands, diverse … differently. The result is a crisis in the patent system, where patents calibrated to the needs of prescription drugs wreak havoc … of Chicago Press, courts should use the tools the patent system already gives them to treat patents in different …