With the passage of what ended up as the America Invents Act in 2011, an extended, multi-year effort — often characterized as “patent reform” — reached something of a culmination. The Act outlined several significant changes in patent law, the first being a change in who was entitled to...

There has been a dramatic rise in patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, particularly in technology related areas. Patent statistics show that the number of software, technology and technology-related business practices patents have more than doubled in the last six...

The stunning rise in patents, patent lawsuits and patent controversies has emerged as a serious concern to the information industry. Between 1963 and 2005 the number of patent applications in the United States has quadrupled. The number of patent applications filed world wide increased nearly...

It appears that your BlackBerry is safe. After more than four years of litigation and a threatened shutdown, a settlement was reached between Research in Motion (RIM)–the manufacturer of the BlackBerry–and NTP the holder of several patents that RIM had allegedly infringed.There were a number...

The possibility of the most significant restructuring of patent law in 56 years is growing increasingly likely. In January 2008, the Senate Judiciary Committee released a draft report on the Senate's patent reform proposal, Senate bill 1145. The draft report, described by one commentator as...