Two important, but sometimes overlooked issues in patent prosecution, particularly for companies with worldwide patent portfolios, are: 1) when a foreign filing license must be obtained; and 2) how to ...

Biotechnology is an unpredictable science. When its practitioners wish to enforce their patents, they often run into a serious problem. Unlike chemists or pharmacologists, who for a century or so have ...

The new patent-focused platform from Toppan Digital IP offers AI-driven translation and portfolio analytics. SVP Neil Simpkin explains how it’s helping the C-suite to manage portfolios. When ...

“In some countries, for inventions made by employees in the course of their employment, it is critical to ask (1) who owns the invention—the employer or employee?—and (2) Is an employee entitled to ...

Sooner or later, most engineers will create or discover something they believe is patentable. But while these technical professionals know that a patent is a collection of rights related to an ...