Are Your Competitors Gaining On You? – Monitoring Competitor Patent Activities

How aware are you of your competitor’s patenting activities? Are they seeking patents that could impact your development of future product lines in your technology area? Are they moving into new technologies that could be game-changers? Are new players entering your space?
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The Dangers of “Stuffing” Your Patent Applications with Undeveloped Ideas

Many companies build an IP portfolio around particular products, and the portfolio evolves over time as new refinements and improvements to the original concept are developed.  This sometimes raises the question of whether various different inventions should be consolidated into a single
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Today’s Supreme Court Decision Threatens the Patentability of Diagnostic Test Methods

If your business is based on patented diagnostic test methods, you may want to pay attention today’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.  In this case, the Court unanimously reversed the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
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Patent “Trolls”: Effects of the U.S. Written Description Requirement and Continuation Practice

The emergence of so-called “patent trolls” or their less pejorative name “non-practicing entities” (NPEs) has been a controversial topic for some time now.  Those who become frequent target of NPE lawsuits are understandably hostile to NPEs or anything that increases their litigation
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