(MoneyWatch) If innovation is fascinating and has enormous implications for business, reading patent applications themselves will make most people's eyes glaze over. But every now and then something ...

So-called “demand letters,”in which patent-holders assert that other businesses or even consumers infringe their patents, have become the focus of many recent efforts to defang patent “trolls.” Such ...

Draft legislation to crack down on abusive patent demand letters still needs work, some lawmakers and outside advocates said Thursday. They pointed to a number of potential flaws in the legislation, ...

Patent licensing company Conversant Intellectual Property Management today launched an educational campaign against the use of extortionist demand letters that are victimizing thousands of small and ...

Under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, a state or federal court may exercise jurisdiction over a defendant only if the defendant is at home in the forum state or has sufficient ...

A cease-and-desist (C&D) letter typically demands that the recipient stop (cease) doing something now and avoid (desist from) doing it in the future, or risk being sued. The steps you take after ...

Lawmakers are urging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to use its authority to ensure lower priced drugs make it to market, but a drug company attorney said blaming the current patent system for ...

I read your commentary on the patent system (“Engineers should stage a strike”). I have a big problem connecting your recommendations to facts about the problem. Let me say that I agree with your ...