Patents are valuable for the generation of novel ideas through technological discovery. In recent years, scientists have made ...

With the European Commission heading towards a second reading of its patent legislation, there's still more heat than light in discussions on the subject. The UK Patent Office (UKPO) has of late been ...

The European Parliament (EP) has enlisted the help of intellectual property lawyers to amend the directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions so that companies are prevented from ...

In its infinite wisdom, the Supreme Court has decreed that to determine whether a claimed invention contains patent eligible subject matter requires a more in-depth inquiry than the statute requires.

The biotechnology industry won a significant legal victory last month, but the battle over the patentability of biology may not be over. The biotechnology industry won a significant legal victory last ...

A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee seeking to reduce legal claims by owners of illegitimate patents heard Thursday that it’s difficult to define a bogus patent claim. The goal of Thursday’s ...

High court requests solicitor general's views on whether an invention revealed in a patent claim specification—but not the claims themselves—can invalidate a future patent. David Cavanaugh of Wilmer ...

Subject matter eligibility has been the most confounding and unpredictable issue in patent law since the Alice decision ...