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Deal or No Deal?

The Justice Department is set to appeal the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner

Is your academic R&D lab secure?

US government officials caution that in addition to China’s more traditional methods of corporate espionage, Chinese students in U.S. University tech research programs may be possible spies jeopardizing the intellectual property and technologies developed on American campuses.

Filing of US Provisionals is on the Rise

Patentees are continuing to move away from the single-patent model toward a model that involves multiple patents in multiple jurisdictions. Today, over 75% of patent applications rely upon at least one prior patent filing as a priority document.

Amendments Being Considered by Congress to Further Amend the AIA

One aspect of the Goodlatte discussion draft legislation is a series of “Improvements and Technical Corrections to the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.” The AIA was passed in September 2011 and is gradually being fully implemented across the US patent system. The further changes here are fairly substantial, although buried within the proposed bill itself.