On December 7, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a notice-and-comment period for their new

During recent years, the Western District of Texas has been the busiest federal court for patent lawsuits in the US.[i] However, before July

When the framers of the Constitution granted Congress the power “[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to

The COVID-19 pandemic raised the question of whether the U.S. patent system should accomplish more than purely incentivize innovation. As Prof. Mariam Marcowitz-Bitton suggests, there

The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 allows small businesses and non-profit organizations such as universities to retain ownership of inventions made with federal funding and profit

Normally, the plaintiff in a patent infringement case gets to choose where to file their lawsuit. However, when a plaintiff sues a customer for using

On July 20, 2018, the Federal Circuit held in Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. that Native American tribes cannot assert tribal

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On March 5^th, 2019, the Supreme Court granted writ of certiorari in Iancu v. NantKwest Inc. The question for the Court is whether the phrase “[a]ll the

Standard-essential patents (“SEPs”) are patents that embody industry-adopted technical standards. While standardization presents many benefits, including interoperability of standardized products and lower manufacturing costs, to