In 2023, the world-wide value of intangible assets (e.g., contractual rights and intellectual property (IP), such as patents, copyrights, and proprietary technology) reached USD57.
A common misperception in the software industry is whether aspects of software are patentable in the United States. Although it has been eight years since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Alice Corp.
After reviewing the First District court case on 35 U.S.C. 101 for a blockchain patent, we wanted to check in and see how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has been handling blockchain-related patent applications.
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As 2021 begins and intellectual property (IP) strategies are being developed for the new year, it is a good time to reflect on what IP issues were prominent in 2020. According to many readers, hot topics included Chinese foreign filing licenses, patenting involving either artificial intelligence (AI) or COVID-19,
inter partes review, and attorney fee awards.
Here are 2020’s top 5 most popular Mintz IP posts:
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Strategic Considerations for Obtaining a Foreign Filing License in China – This article outlines why and when a foreign filing license is needed in China as well as bypass continuations in the U.S. and the use of a PCT request filed in China to obtain a foreign filing license.
“The Song of the Pipa Player”
On October 17, 2020, the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People’s Congress (China’s top legislature) passed the Fourth Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law, which will become effective on June 1, 2021 (“Effective Date”).
As I was digesting the news and browsing through the 29 newly published changes made to the previous version of the Chinese Patent Law, which was passed in 2008, a line from “The Song of the Pipa Player”, a popular poem written in 816 A.D. by Bai Juyi (one of the three most famous poets in China’s Tang Dynasty), came to mind: “Only after our repeated calls did she appear; her face half hidden behind the pipa she held.”