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Trump’s Plan for Patent Tax: A New Approach to Corporate Fairness

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August 29, 2025

In an era where intellectual property (IP) drives economic dominance, the United States faces a critical challenge: multinational corporations offshoring their patent portfolios to low-tax havens, eroding the nation’s tax base and undermining fair competition. Recent proposals from President Donald Trump’s Commerce Department transition team offer a bold solution—an annual tax on patents valued at […]

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The Tiny Words That Could Cripple American Innovation

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August 25, 2025

Imagine a company that spends years, millions of dollars, and countless hours on a breakthrough product, only to have its intellectual property (IP) stolen by a single sentence hidden in a routine document. Unfortunately, this isn’t a hypothetical scenario. It’s the central issue in Vicor Corporation v. International Trade Commission, a case that threatens to dismantle […]

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Time to Turn the US Rejection Office back into the US Patent Office: Part 3

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August 4, 2025

USPTO’s Office of Patent Quality Assurance (OPQA) results show that US patent examiners adhere tightly to performance incentives that value speed and volume over quality. See Parts 1` and 2 of this series. Here in Part 3, we drill into the quality element of the patent examiners performance and appraisal plan (PAP) to identify criteria […]

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Time to Turn the US Rejection Office Back into the US Patent Office – Part 1

Julie Burke /

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May 10, 2025

In 2024, the Sunwater Institute’s study Patent Quality in the United States, Findings and Suggestions for Policy Makers, determined that This outcome was observed in groups that examined chemical, mechanical, telecommunications, computer and electronical technologies. From the Sunwater Institute report, it can be estimated that TC3600 improperly rejects 15% of claims directed to electric vehicles, […]

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Why Patent Reform Is Urgent: How China Exploits U.S. Disclosures and Undermines Innovation

Paul Morinville /

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April 18, 2025

In 2007, the United States led the world in 60 out of 64 technologies critical to our economic and national security. However, warning signs that a shift had occurred emerged in 2018 when it was reported that China accounted for 48% of global Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup funding in 2017, surpassing the U.S., which held […]

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Weaponized Fairness: Big Tech’s Dirty Secret in the U.S. Patent System

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April 9, 2025

There’s a nasty little game going on in the U.S. patent system—one that no one in Washington seems willing to talk about. Big Tech corporations, the same ones screaming the loudest about imaginary “patent trolls” and “bad patents”, are quietly withholding prior art from the USPTO. Then, when those patents get issued, they turn around […]

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How Big Tech Used the Supreme Court to Kill Competition

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April 8, 2025

In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed Big Tech a loaded weapon. They called it Alice v. CLS Bank (Alice). Framed as a fix for so-called “bad patents,” the decision was pitched as a way to stop vague, overly broad ideas from getting patent protection. What it actually did was gut the patent system for […]

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The Irony of Justice Roberts and the Reality of Rule 36 Affirmances

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March 30, 2025

The American judiciary is supposed to be the last refuge for those seeking justice, a place where the rule of law reigns supreme, immune from political games and corporate influence. But in reality, it’s a rigged system, tilted in favor of powerful multinational corporations and indifferent to the struggles of startups, inventors, and everyday Americans. […]

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The RESTORE Patents Act Uniquely Handicaps American Innovation

Paul Morinville /

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March 16, 2025

In 2007 the United States led the world in 60 out of 64 technologies critical to our economic and national security. However, warning signs emerged when it was reported that China accounted for 48% of global Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup funding in 2017, surpassing the U.S., which held 38%. By March 2023, China had taken […]