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$250 million Alcoa litigation failure a reminder of pitfalls facing trade secret owners

This is the latest of three recent setbacks that provide a warning to would-be trade secrets plaintiffs

$303M award against Samsung leads Q2's top US patent jury verdicts

Jury trials in US patent cases spiked to high levels with 25 verdicts issued from April to June– and 60% of these favoured patentees, according to Docket Navigator data

300 million reasons why patent owners love litigating in Texas

In what promises to be the largest US jury verdicts this quarter, Texas federal courts ended trials by awarding huge damages to patentees Netlist and Textron

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US omnibus appropriations bill: robust USPTO funding and satellite office incoming

Unleashing American Innovators in, Pride in Patent Ownership out of bill which is expected to hit Biden’s desk on Friday

20 December 2022

Diversity data reveals size of missed opportunities in inventors and patenting

Qualcomm executive and Invent Together director discuss initiatives at IP Dealmakers conference in New York

13 December 2022

Brazilian political about-turn could spell change for IP community

The election of Lula da Silva may have significant policy ramifications, including for patent professionals

08 December 2022

Elon Musk is right about patents …

… and that makes what he says about them even more misguided and potentially dangerous

23 September 2022

Drone makers ramp-up patent filings with one Chinese company leading the fleet

IP strategy could be shifting, however, as a result of market saturation, toughening regulations

22 September 2022

Aerospace and defence firm CIPOs should seize patent acquisition opportunities

Just 7% of 300 failed start-ups transferred their IP, leaving more than 500 innovative patents to expire, according to a research report

06 September 2022

Launching IP strategy for a 3D-printed space rocket company

Since January, Bridget Smith has been busily creating patenting and trade secrets programmes to protect Relativity’s specialist technologies

02 September 2022

Why the new CHIPS + Science Act matters for IP

Although many provisions were stripped out of the final version of the legislation, it still contains important tech transfer-related elements, while the huge sums for R&D it envisages are almost certain to spawn more patents

30 August 2022

Growing UAM industry will see more NPE activity, says EHang’s vice president

How a Chinese urban air mobility company is preparing for the next big IP battlefield

28 June 2022

Hyundai Motor steps up patent buying activity

Korean automaker adds portfolios from Intel and IBM as it continues to show interest in UAV and natural language processing tech

19 May 2022

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