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First Action Interview (FAI) Pilot Program Usage Remains Low
By Tia Brand Since its inception in 2008, the First Action Interview (FAI) Pilot Program has been hailed as an efficiency booster, increasi...
WIPO Releases 2019 World Intellectual Property Indicators Report
Last month the World Intellectual Property Organization released the 2019 World Intellectual Property Indicators Report, a report showing co...
Portfolio Gap Analysis of Globalfoundries and Taiwan Semiconductor
Globalfoundries and Taiwan Semiconductor announced an agreement to cross-license each other's patents and those patents filed over the next...
USPTO October 2019 Update On Subject Matter Eligibility
By Tim Hirzel The PTO’s Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance (2019 PEG) has been generally well received for providing a more...
Top Companies in Blockchain Patents
By Rocky Berndsen Blockchain is an emerging technology that has taken the world by storm. In October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a se...
Law360 Law Firm Leaders: Harrity & Harrity’s John Harrity
Law360 (October 16, 2019, 2:04 PM EDT) -- John Harrity has served as managing partner of Harrity & Harrity LLP, the patent law firm he f...
Harrity Receives Washington Business Journal Corporate Citizenship Award
WASHINGTON (October 11, 2019) – Harrity & Harrity, LLP received the Washington Business Journal (WBJ) Corporate Citizenship Award in rec...
Harrity Creates Incubator to Launch Minority- and Women-Owned Law Firms
LAW.COM (October 3, 2019) After years of reading about new legal diversity programs with nothing to show for it, Harrity & Harrity manag...
Why a Brief Response is the Best Response to an Office Action
By Rebecca Bachner, Associate The Federal Circuit recently issued a decision that reminds us of the importance of always remembering prosec...
Improving Speed and Quality Using Automation for Patent Application Drafting
Our own Shawn Lillemo writes about how the right automation tools can provide application drafters with extra time that can be spent fleshin...
How the Wrong Applicant Entity Status Can Doom Your Patent
By Peter Glaser, Associate The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, more commonly referred to as AIA, provided the USPTO with fee-setting autho...
Flexibility for Lawyers, Clients Helps Harrity & Harrity Stay Competitive
Law.com (September 10, 2019) "We allow our attorneys to work where they want, when they want, and how much they want," managing partner John...
Gene Quinn – Clause 8 – Episode 13
On the Clause 8 Podcast, our own Eli Mazour talked to Gene Quinn about starting and running IPWatchdog.com - the most influential IP-focused...
IP boutique seeks to show that new thinking on diversity is not just for Big Law
IAM (September 10, 2019) In the latest issue of IAM our cover story “the Boston Manifesto” is a call to action for the IP industry to increa...
Harrity Introduces Innovative Legal Diversity Initiative
Harrity & Harrity Introduces Innovative Legal Diversity Initiative Program designed to launch minority-owned IP law firms WASHINGT...
How Reliable is the Pencil Test for Expediting the Patent Prosecution Process?
By Nathan Phares, Associate Many patent practitioners and Examiners have spoken of the “pencil test,” which suggests that an independent cl...
Statements in Specification May Harm Patent Eligibility
By Matthew Allen, Associate The Federal Circuit recently issued a decision that indicates how certain types of statements, made in an Appli...
Semiconductors and Memory Ranks as the #1 Technology Area in the 2019 Patent 300™ Report
By Rocky Berndsen The 2019 Patent 300™ Report details the top 300 companies, organizations, and universities obtaining patents in the Unite...
Toyota Tops Auto Market in Patent 300™
By Rocky Berndsen Big head, long tail. This isn’t the description of an exotic animal, rather it describes the automotive sector of the Pa...
Electrical Circuits and Systems Ranks as the #2 Technology Area in the 2019 Patent 300™ Report
By Rocky Berndsen The 2019 Patent 300™ Report details the top 300 companies, organizations, and universities obtaining patents in the Unite...
Multiplex and VoIP Ranks as the #3 Technology Area in the 2019 Patent 300 Report
By Rocky Berndsen The 2019 Patent 300™ Report details the top 300 companies, organizations, and universities obtaining patents in the Unite...
Optics Ranks as the #4 Technology Area in the 2019 Patent 300™ Report
By Rocky Berndsen The 2019 Patent 300™ Report details the top 300 companies, organizations, and universities obtaining patents in the Unite...
Printing or Measuring and Testing Ranks as the #5 Technology Area in the 2019 Patent 300™ Report
By Rocky Berndsen The 2019 Patent 300™ Report details the top 300 companies, organizations, and universities obtaining patents in the Unite...
Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems Ranks as the #6 Technology Area in the 2019 Patent 300™ Report
By Rocky Berndsen The 2019 Patent 300™ Report details the top 300 companies, organizations, and universities obtaining patents in the Unite...