The phrase “fee shifting” refers to the practice in which a court will make an unsuccessful litigant pay the attorney’s fees for the successful litigant.

The America Invents Act did not solve all of the perceived problems with U.S. patent system.

The AIA authorized the USPTO to make various structural changes.

The 1999 American Inventors Protection Act (AIPA), an earlier attempt at patent-law reform, created a limited “prior commercial use” affirmative defense.

The AIA made certain changes to existing patent examination procedures. These changes included...

I wanted to take a break from discussing the America Invents Act to discuss a recent copyright decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concerning “takedown notices” under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office conducted various types of adversarial proceedings prior to the enactment of the AIA.

The America Invents Act (AIA) is a federal statute that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on Sept. 16, 2011.

I started this blog in 2009 to give the readers of Industrial Heating an overview of intellectual property.