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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...
HTIA
Jul 22, 2021
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
Sep 10, 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
Apr 24, 2020


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
Oct 31, 2019


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 30, 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
Nov 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
Aug 2, 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
Jul 24, 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 29, 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
Jun 12, 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 15, 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
Feb 7, 2018


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
Nov 8, 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...
HTIA
Aug 10, 2017
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