July 2011

Subtle Corruption? The Weakening of US Patent Rights

China, IP rights, patents, technology / By

One of the troubling trends in US patent law, a trend I first heard about roughly a decade ago in a course “Drafting and Crafting Winning Patents” from Patent Resources Group, was the tendency for courts in patent litigation to twist the claims to limit their scope. Among the many examples of courts finding language …

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China Gets Serious about Intellectual Property

China, incentives, innovation, tech transfer, technology, theft / By

Many people in the West think of China as a copier exploiting the IP of the West and generally ignoring IP rights. In reality, China, the nation where I now live, has made steady and rapid progress in building an IP system and in enforcing and respecting IP rights. Companies are increasingly able to protect …

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