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Defense Patent Holiday's Real Prize May Be Collab Potential

The true value of participating in the ongoing defense patent holiday program might lie not in access to technology developed by the U.S. Department of War, but in developing a wor...

Witnessing the Miracle of Innovation in Real Time

Many of us have spent our careers defending and promoting our patent system and related policies like the Bayh-Dole Act, which injected the authorities and incentives of patent own...

iEdison- Remediation of Bayh-Dole Reporting Omissions

AIPLA, NAM Rally Behind Moderna's Fight Over Vax Patents

The American Intellectual Property Law Association, National Association of Manufacturers and others urged the Federal Circuit to undo a lower court's ruling that Moderna, and not...

Government-Funded Inventions and iEdison

IPWatchdog Patent Masters Urge Stakeholders to Unite for Change in the Next Cycle of U.S. Patent Reform

IPWatchdog’s 2026 Patent Masters Program kicked off Monday with discussions on the state of the international patent landscape and the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in creat...

IP Due Diligence in Government-Funded Industries

Key Takeaway For a target company that used government funding to develop its technology, intellectual property (IP) due diligence must extend beyond ownership confirmation to eval...

Biopharmaceutical Innovation: The Patent Imperative

America’s $150 billion per year private sector investment in biopharmaceutical research and development (R&D) does more than offer comfort. Increasingly, American innovators ar...

Gov't Shouldn't Face Vax Suit Targeting Moderna, Group Says

Conservative advocacy organization Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund on Tuesday urged the Federal Circuit to reject a proposal to shift a multibillion-dollar patent in...

Critical Path Institute Unveils New Coalition to Propel Human-Relevant Drug Development Tools

TUCSON, Ariz., and AMSTERDAM — May 19, 2026 — In a transformative step for drug development and regulatory science, the Critical Path Institute (C-Path) has officially launched the...

India–Brazil TKDL Access Collaboration: The Next Phase of Global Biodiplomacy?

The recent collaboration between India’s CSIR and Brazil’s National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) on access to the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) marks an i...

Computer and Automotive Industries Urge SCOTUS to Eliminate the PTAB’s ‘Settled Expectations’ Doctrine

On Friday, a series of computer and automotive industry trade organizations representing most of the top filers of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings at the Patent Trial and App...

Hikma Ruling Looms Large in House IP Subcommittee Hearing Debating Legislation Favoring Generic Drugmakers

At approximately the same moment that the U.S. Supreme Court handed down today’s landmark ruling in Hikma v. Amarin, the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Prop...

A United Front Against “Settled Expectations”

Seven amici back Google's cert petition in VirtaMove, attacking the PTO's six-year 'settled expectations' bar on IPR institution and its review. Continue reading this post on Paten...

The Supreme Court Broke Patent Eligibility: Congress Can Fix It

When the Senate Judiciary Committee examines the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA)      this week, lawmakers won't simply be debating patent law. They'll be deciding whethe...

Coordinating Life Sciences IP Strategies In The US And EU

As postgrant practice for life sciences patents is restructured in the U.S. and European Union simultaneously, patent owners will need to implement transatlantic coordination that...

Coalition Urges Policymakers to Reject No Surprises Act Enforcement Bill

The Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing launched a campaign opposing the No Surprises Act Enforcement Act, arguing it would worsen IDR process abuse. The post Coalition Urge...

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Patent Eligibility Bill Divides Senators Over Health Costs

Several U.S. senators expressed strong support at a hearing Tuesday for a bill aimed at expanding which inventions are eligible for patents, while others appeared to have reservati...

Coalition asks judge to halt Trump’s anti-DEI contractor order

The group, led by the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, filed a lawsuit over the executive order in April.

Amgen, Sanofi Team Up To Urge En Banc Antibody IP Review

Rival pharmaceutical companies that squared off at the U.S. Supreme Court over antibody patents have jointly asked the full Federal Circuit to review an unrelated panel decision re...

Squires and Stewart Hear Panelist Views on Desired PTAB Changes

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today held its third PTAB Listening Session, this one focused on Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Administration and Reform. Paneli...

American Battery Leadership Coalition forms to push US sodium-ion policy

A group of US sodium-ion battery companies has formed a coalition to lobby Washington for federal policy support, arguing that the chemistry is the country’s best near-term path to...

Who funds the future? The capital balance that fuels innovation

For most of the past century, the United States has not left innovation to chance. At the height of the Space Race in the 1960s, federal investment in research and development r...