The author comments on Sasha Hoyt’s work concerning the impact of the Supreme Court’s patent eligibility decisions on private investment in the development of medical diagnostic technologies. As Hoyt discusses, medical diagnostic technologies enable the diagnosis of diseases and other...

The year 2014 was an eventful one for intellectual property law. Every branch of government affected intellectual property law in one way or another. The Supreme Court ruled on several important intellectual property law cases; federal and state legislatures contemplated and enacted various new...

While the existence of patent assertion entities is not new, in recent years they have proliferated, spawning debate concerning their impact on the patent system and, more broadly, on technological innovation. Despite the fear that they instill in their targets — or perhaps because of it —...