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 ...

EDITORIAL NOTE: What follows is an excerpt from the prepared remarks of Laurie Self delivered on February 26, 2015, before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade. Ms. Self is ...

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 ...

In late 2012, a company called MPHJ Technology started sending out letters demanding payments of $1,000 per worker for using basic “scan to e-mail” functions, saying they infringed a batch of patents.

On March 26, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a rare negative business review letter declining to approve a plan by Intellectual Property Exchange International Inc. (IPXI) to offer a ...