Guest Blog Post on PatentProgress: The Quality and Attributions of Patents as Property
HTIA's Executive Director, David Jones, authored a guest blog post on PatentProgress on the progress to our patent system over the past...
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Sep 10, 2020
USPTO Abuse Of Discretionary IPR Denials Must Be Cabined
Law360 published an op-ed by HTIA Executive Director Dave Jones. He writes about how the USPTO has embarked on a concerted effort to...
HTIA
Apr 24, 2020
Op Ed: Patent Trolls Are All Too Real
On April 21, 2020, HTIA Executive Director Dave Jones writes how poor patent quality wielded by shell companies remains a prevalent issue...
HTIA
Oct 31, 2019
Dave Jones in The Hill: How to fix the patent quality crisis
The United States has a serious problem – arguably a full-blown crisis – in patent quality: a flood of bad patents devaluing the good...
HTIA
Nov 30, 2018
The BRI standard change is a mistake
This article originally appeared in IP Pro A recent change to the standard for challenging and overturning patents at the PTAB is...
HTIA
Nov 2, 2018
Encouraging innovation and economic growth
This article originally appeared in the Washington Times Last month, in a speech to the Intellectual Property Owners Association, the...
HTIA
Aug 2, 2018
A Decade Of US Patent Reform Must Not Be Undone
Today’s patent system is the product of nearly a decade of reform, thanks to which the quality of U.S.-issued patents has gone up and...
HTIA
Jul 24, 2018
A Clever Scheme To Protect Invalid Patents Has Failed
On July 20, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit turned back an attempt to shield invalid patents from a second look by the...
HTIA
Jun 29, 2018
The U.S. marks 10 million patents
This article originally appeared in the Washington Times On Wednesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) marked the granting...
HTIA
Jun 12, 2018
Making the patent system stronger
This article originally appeared in the Washington Times Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, the new director of...
HTIA
Feb 15, 2018
Patent reform and innovation
This article originally appeared in the Washington Times On February 5, the Senate confirmed Andrei Iancu as director of the Patent and...
HTIA
Feb 7, 2018
Patent Protection key to US economic progress
This post originally appeared in the Washington Examiner. On Monday the Senate confirmed Andrei Iancu as director of the U.S. Patent and...
HTIA
Nov 8, 2017
Protecting patents from unscrupulous trolls
The House Judiciary Committee met Tuesday to hear testimony on a patent deal between the drugmaker Allergan Plcand a Native American...
HTIA
Aug 10, 2017
Double checking patents puts exploitative trolls on notice
HTIA spokesperson John Thorne has a new op-ed in The Hill explains how Inter Partes Review (IPR) protects inventors and innovation: "The...
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