Steve Brachmann
Freelance Columnist at IP Watchdog
Freelance writer and IP law journalist for @ipwatchdog. I like crafting fact-based stories to produce news that's fit to print. Also, actor and hockey fan.
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Squires' Responses to Senate Judiciary Committee Focus on Balance, Backlog and 'Born Strong' Patents
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ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Drew Berweger |Steve Brachmann
“The statistics I mentioned are those published by the USPTO concerning claim cancellation upon challenge at the PTAB which are a small subset of all issued patents, not a measure of quality at the front end.” – John SquiresThe Trump Administration’s nominee for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director, John Squires, has submitted written responses for the record following his May 21 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee expanding upon and clarifying his earlier comments.
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ipwatchdog.com | Steve Brachmann |Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn
“Even if patent owners have a right under (Section) 312(a)(2) to have RPI disputes adjudicated, such a right only arises in the context of IPR proceedings.” – Federal CircuitToday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. v. Unified Patents, LLC dismissing Dolby Labs’ appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) for lack of an injury-in-fact to confer Article III standing.
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4 days ago |
ipwatchdog.com | Steve Brachmann
“Thus, even assuming the CCP is an RPI, the Petitions were still filed by a ‘person’ under the statute.” – PTABYesterday, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) entered an order denying patent owner Cellspin Soft’s motion to terminate a series of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings petitioned by Chinese social media company TikTok.
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5 days ago |
ipwatchdog.com | Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann
This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, we have a conversation that I’ve wanted to have for some time. The topic this week is quantum computers. It is quite a niche topic and finding people who actually know what they’re talking about is not particularly easy, but this is an enormously important topic that we should all know something about because for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to achieve all its full potential, we are going to need much better and much faster computers.
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6 days ago |
ipwatchdog.com | Steve Brachmann
“[O]nly two states had average scores of ‘B+’ or above across their entire Congressional delegation: Delaware (‘A’); and Idaho (‘B+’).”On May 28, intellectual property (IP) policy advocacy group the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) published the second edition of its Congressional Innovation Scorecard, a detailed assessment of Congressional engagement with legislative efforts on IP protections and related policies.
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Former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu directly responds to Musk/Dorsey "delete all IP law" tweet at IPAS 2025 keynote - "We believe that innovation just happens, but it doesn't, because if it did, it would have happened over hundreds of thousands of years of human existence."
Episode 1 of IP Innovators, sponsored by @DeepIP_AI - From Paper Trails to Patent AI: Paul Hunter on 27 Years of Patent Practice https://t.co/qQGlf3Hxjf
Senator @ChuckGrassley (R-IA), Senate Judiciary Chair, excoriating the Senate's short work week at today's SJC meeting: "We can't solve this country's problems if we don't get together more than 2 and a 1/2 days a week to get business done."
