According to research from a law professor at Santa Clara University, individuals and companies that do not create technology themselves but instead acquire patents to target other companies were ...

The Federal Circuit late last month upheld a ruling from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidating two patents that VirnetX asserted against Apple. A day later the appellate court vacated a $502 ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s finding that the asserted patent claims were invalid as indefinite because the meaning of the term “half-liquid” was not ...

China filed 1.8 million patent applications last year, accounting for nearly half of all patents worldwide. That is more than three times the number of patent applications filed in the United States.

China filed the highest number of patents worldwide last year, accelerating its efforts to secure global technology leadership. This is seen as a strategic move to gain a market advantage by securing ...