Gene Quinn

Cote provides capital for scaling manufacturing and operations with IP assets-backed investment and with those assets including designs, patents, trade secrets, know-how, copyrights, proprietary equipment, customer contracts and even data.

By now, virtually all Americans, and people around the world, are no doubt aware that Donald J. Trump has been reelected as President of the United States, making him only the second person in history who will serve non-consecutive terms. In our space, the nomination of most consequence will be that of USPTO Director.

This week we have a special guest. Walt Copan joins us for a conversation about the role of science, technology and innovation in U.S. competitiveness and for U.S. national security.

In this episode of IPWatchdog Unleashed, we discuss patent prosecution with Sivon Kalminov, the Director the Intellectual Property Division at Canon USA. From the death of the After Final Consideration 2.0 program, to examiners raising Section 112 issues for the first time in a Notice of Allowance and much more.

The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, better known as the Hatch-Waxman Act, is responsible for allowing patent owners to extend the patent term due to the need to go through premarket regulatory review.

I recently had the opportunity to speak on patent eligibility during a webinar hosted by the Federalist Society. The discussion was spirited. I joined Sherry Knowles, Matt Dowd and Professor Josh Sarnoff, with Professor Sarnoff advocating largely in favor of the current patent eligibility regime.

This week we explore small and medium sized enterprises, often referred to simply as SMEs. And in particular, we take a look at how two different countries-- Canada and Ireland-- are working with their own small businesses to assist them with respect to innovation and intellectual property.

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we have a special episode. At the end of September we held our annual all-topics conference, which we call IPWatchdog LIVE. During the conference Eileen McDermott, our editor in chief, asked industry leaders what important issue are facing the IP industry.

Over the last six months, only 6.3% of Federal Circuit actions have been precedential patent decisions. If so little of what the Federal Circuit is doing relates to patents, why do we need or want a patent court?

Depending on your perspective, you likely believe patent trolls have been and continue to be an enormous problem, or complaints about patent trolls have been greatly exaggerated. As is often the case when emotions are running high and there is so much money at stake, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.