The day after the midterms, Trump fired AG Sessions and tapped Mr. Sessions’ chief-of-staff, Matthew G. Whitaker, to serve in the role as acting Attorney General. Shortly thereafter, the press started to report that Mr. Whitaker was previously an advisory board member for a company known as, World Patent Marketing, before it closed shop following a consent decree with the FTC. It is worth taking a moment to highlight the need for increased IP literacy.
Read MoreUnified Patents recently released statistics on patent lawsuit filings. The statistics show patent filings to be trending downwards fairly significantly from a peak in 2015. Yet, the statistics also show that the individual inventor, asserting his or her own patent, is behind many patent suits. Does that matter?
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