The American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its 2nd Expert Forum on ITC Litigation & Enforcement Wednesday, February 24 to Thursday, February 25, 2010 in New York.  The conference provides inside, in-depth guidance on this growing critical...

The UK is introducing a "patent box" regime that will impose a lower rate of corporate tax on patent income as an attempt to boost to Britain's creative industries.  The government has yet to release details of how the scheme will operate, although...

The USPTO has been establishing procedures for measuring the quality of patent examination and to improve overall patent quality (together with the Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC)).  The Office is now seeking help from the public.  From a...

From Michael Smith's Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice Weblog: Last Thursday a Marshall jury in Judge Ward's court in Fiber Systems Int'l v. Applied Optical, 2:06cv473 returned a defense verdict on infringement in a patent case . . . I...

From today's USPTO press release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Commerce Department’s Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will pilot a program to accelerate the examination of certain “green” technology patent applications, Secretary Gary Locke announced...