U.S. Patent Office data reveals that North Carolina ranked 15th out of 20 states named in the nation in the number of patents issued to the State’s residence during fiscal year 2006, ending…

The India patent office dismissed Novartis’ patent for cancer drug Gleevec.

In a letter recently forwarded to Congress, the AFL-CIO warned that the current statutory reforms suggested for the U.S. patent system would weaken the strength of U.S. patents by limiting damages…

The US Patent and Trademark Office has revised the Rules of practice in patent examinations in what it states is an attempt to make examination of patent applications in the Patent Office more effective and efficient. The Rule changes require a patent application to give justification for filing a continuing application for a third or subsequent continuing application. The justification will need to demonstrate why the amendment, argument or evidence could not have been submitted in the previously filed applications.

In early 2000, General Technology Applications, a five-person research company from Virginia, sued Conoco Inc. for infringement on three of its patents. The patents were for petroleum additives, which a federal jury decided Conoco “willfully” infringed upon with its “Liquid Power” product.