The article "Critics Fault Court's Grip on Appeals for Patents" (Marketplace, July 7) reports that current detractors of the patent system believe that having appellate courts around the nation hear ...

Patent licensing company Conversant Intellectual Property Management today launched an educational campaign against the use of extortionist demand letters that are victimizing thousands of small and ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. Pictured June 30, 2018, in Arlington, Virginia. Photo: Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock.

The U.S. Congress should take action to slow a skyrocketing number of “deceptive” patent- infringement demand letters sent from patent-licensing firms to small businesses, witnesses told a Senate ...

Clarifying ten-year-old precedent on personal jurisdiction in patent declaratory judgment actions, the Federal Circuit recently held in Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. v. Plano Encryption Technologies ...

Patent demand letter legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives panel is set to consider is getting the attention of technology industry groups hoping the bill can curb at least some patent ...

Several documents offering rare insight into Orville Wright will be auctioned Thursday. A 1916 patent transfer document for Wright’s invention of the airplane and one in which the inventor defends his ...