Semiconductors are the quiet infrastructure of modern life. Practically every electronic device — from phones and PCs to vehicles and data-center accelerators — depends on manufacturing steps that ...

For years, parallel proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) were the near-automatic response of a defendant in district court patent litigation. Accused infringers routinely filed ...

An expert Q&A on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) 2025 guidance memoranda addressing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) approach to discretionary denials of inter partes review ...

When patent infringement threatens a company’s business and possibly even puts its survival at risk, effective patent litigation can become a necessity. The cost to litigate a patent case in the U.S., ...

Ji Liu and Shaohui Yuan of CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office analyse evidentiary strategy in recent high-award Chinese ...

The landscape for discretionary denials at PTAB is evolving quickly; both patent challengers and owners must adapt their strategies to ensure they are not left behind by the USPTO’s new approach. The ...

Google asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to strike down a U.S. patent office policy that it said effectively puts older ...

“The Federal Circuit… ruled that such a due process violation could only be asserted by whoever claimed to be the true [patent owner].” Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ...

One of the founders of patent monetization firm IP Edge talked about how the firm shifted strategy after a series of investigations initiated by a federal judge.

After making it harder to challenge patents before a specialized tribunal, the US Patent and Trademark Office has now raised ...

In the latest episode of IPWatchdog Unleashed, I sat down with my good friends Brad Close, who is the Executive Vice President of Transpacific IP, and Jim Carmichael, a former judge on the Board of ...