Patent Infringement

Eye on Washington

Action on Infringement

The Realizing Engineering, Science, and Technology Opportunities by Restoring Exclusive (RESTORE) Patent Rights Act of 2024 would essentially abrogate the 2006 Supreme Court ruling in  eBay v. MercExchange, a case that many patent owners argue has played a key role in weakening the value of patents.

IP Market

‘Shameless’ War on ITC 

We recently noted the large number of significant patent verdict awards of 2024. Although those are usually a positive indicator of the health of the patent market because they may instill some fear in serial infringers, the reality is, they have their limit—the same way a blue-collar worker winning the Powerball does not mean the middle class is suddenly looking to brighter prospects.

Inventing 101

Understanding Improvement Patents

With an improvement patent, you add improvements to a previously patented invention. If you are not the owner of the previous patent, you might be able to get a patent but not be able to sell the product related to the patent because you would be infringing on the original patent.

IP Market

Goodwill Attempt Backfires

Under pressure to fight counterfeit products on its online platform and those accused of violating third-party patents, Amazon created its APEX program. It’s sort of an intramural arbitration process whereby someone claiming its patents were being infringed upon by an article sold on the Amazon website could—for a $4,000 fee—file a complaint and be bound by the final decision of the patent specialist retained by Amazon.

Lander Zone

Patent Search Options

If you do your own patent search without much experience, you probably will not find the prior art the patent examiner will find during searching. This will result in the rejection of your patent application if you file it on your own. 

IP Market

Goosing the Greed

We at Tangible IP get bombarded every day by inventors who want us to help them sell their one or two patents and expects to receive “several millions” (sometimes even billions) from their worthy invention, based primarily on reading some headline about a large patent verdict and thinking, naturally, “Why not me?”

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