Law

Cutting the Costs of Patent Litigation

Peter C. Schechter of Edwards Wildman Palmer discusses patent local rules, which should foster early settlement before the vast bulk of discovery expenses are incurred and prevent the "moving target" ...
JD Supra

The costs of the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court system

Dr. Anna-Katharina Friese-Okoro, Christian Stoll, LL.M. With the introduction of the European Patent with unitary effect (Unitary Patent) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC), the question arises ...
JD Supra

New USPTO Fee Schedule Reduces Costs for PCT Patent Filings and Small and Micro Entities

The enactment of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 includes the Unleashing American Innovators Act of 2022 (UAIA), directed toward increasing innovation of small businesses and inventors in ...
Entrepreneur

Don’t Let Patent Costs Crush Your Startup — Here’s How to Protect Your IP Without Breaking the Bank

Patents bleed cash if you’re not careful. Smart innovation managers patent what matters, cut deadweight and use data, not gut, to save big. Startups should avoid both over-patenting and ...
Washington Examiner

Patent Office is asking the right questions to lower drug costs

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is finally asking the right questions. Brand pharmaceutical companies are gaming the patent system, and it’s costing us all. Fortunately, the ...
CNET

How much is that patent lawsuit going to cost you?

While the tech industry's elite are fighting it out with their whopper patent portfolios, a recent survey shows just how scary one lawsuit can be for a small company. Jim Kerstetter has been writing ...
STAT

Senate, FTC cracking down on pharma patent shenanigans

Why do Americans pay so much more for common medications than people in other countries? Why does an inhaler that costs $7 in France cost almost $500 in the United States? These are just a few of the ...
Clinical Trials Arena on MSN

AI can reduce R&D costs to alleviate looming patent cliff pressures

Speaking at CDMI Europe 2025, GlobalData pharma analyst George El-Helou says the use of AI in R&D could help mitigate patent ...
Salon

How patent extensions keep some drug costs high

This article originally appeared on Undark. Priti Krishtel’s first case as a legal aid lawyer in India was as tragic as they come. One day in 2004, she recalls a couple walking into her office in ...
Scientific American

Reduce the Cost of Patents

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Trademarks, copyrights and patents are all forms of IP: Here's what they protect

Below, CNBC Select explains the differences between trademarks, copyrights and patents. Read on for more information and to ...