Introduction Most inventions that fail patentability were not bad ideas. They failed because they were never properly ideated — the full solution space was never explored — or because prior art was discovered too late, after months of R&D investment...
Introduction The European Patent Office gives opponents exactly nine months from the date of patent grant to file an opposition. Nine months to build a case strong enough to revoke a patent centrally — across every designated state — at...
Introduction In 2025, the Federal Circuit issued its first substantive Alice analysis for a machine learning patent — Recentive Analytics v. Fox Corp. For patent attorneys, it is a legal precedent. For R&D teams, it is a warning about which...
Introduction A university licenses a breakthrough technology to a startup. Six months later, a third-party patent surfaces that the licensed product appears to infringe. The deal is restructured. Legal costs mount. The startup’s commercialization timeline slips by a year. This...
Introduction You receive a demand letter. An NPE is asserting a patent granted in 2017. Your natural response: file an IPR to challenge validity. The new reality under the PTAB’s settled expectations doctrine: that 2017 patent has been in force...
Introduction $1.9 billion. That’s what US courts awarded in patent infringement damages in just the first half of 2025. Across 21 cases. The largest single award involved semiconductor technology that had been in development for years. The common denominator across...