In this article, I switch the focus to exploring how the patent office great again (POGA) movement should prioritize long-overdue legislative reforms to clarify patentable subject matter, ensure all ...

Perplexity on Thursday is launching Perplexity Patents, an AI patent research agent, per an announcement shared first with ...

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed I speak with my long-time friend, John White. Many in the patent community no doubt already know John quite well. Over 30 years ago he created the PLI Patent Bar ...

If President Donald Trump’s administration—whether through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) or another initiative—treats the USPTO like other agencies, it could weaken the competitive ...

On March 18, 2024, the US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) issued a memorandum to patent examiners addressing means-plus-function and step-plus-function claim limitations and how to clearly articulate, ...

1 minute read Determining the scope of patent protection is central to patent law and patent litigation. On the one hand, the patentee seeks to pursue a broad scope of protection scope. On the other ...

Artificial intelligence is evolving beyond simple pattern recognition and content generation into autonomous decision-making. Agentic AI systems act independently—or with limited human supervision—to ...

Today’s AI technology has unlocked the possibility of universal access to professional-grade patent intelligence.

U.S. patent law isn’t ready for artificial intelligence — the technology is too revolutionary, too surprising, too powerful, and in some ways too opaque for our current legal framework to fully ...

Over a decade ago, I co-authored the bipartisan Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to modernize our patent system. One of its key reforms was the creation of a streamlined panel inside the U.S. Patent ...