This fall, in-house IP teams are facing a familiar ritual: pull last year's numbers, brace for a budget cut, and figure out what to trim without gutting the portfolio's real value. On Tuesday, I participated in a IPWatchdog webinar with Gene Quinn and Jason Harrier (AI Patent Counsel, Salesforce) that tackled this exact problem: how AI is reshaping the budgeting and cost-cutting process for 2027, and what teams of any size can do about it right now.

The rules for challenging a competitor's patent have fundamentally changed in 2026. Inter partes review (IPR) petitions have dropped 65% year-over-year to historic lows. Ex parte reexamination has overtaken IPR as the leading post-grant validity tool for the first time since the America Invents Act. Post-grant review (PGR) windows are closing fast, and third-party pre-issuance submissions are drawing renewed attention from IP strategists. If your patent challenge playbook hasn't been updated, it's already outdated.

Notes from the IP Counsel Cafe Silicon Valley Meeting on what AI is actually doing for in-house IP teams: real efficiency, fragmented workflows, and the growing gap between client expectations and firm reality.

It may be more polite to say we’re operating in “uncertain times,” and boy, are they. But the not-so-polite reality is, we’re in a recession. 

Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot owner PSA Group recently announced the terms of a $48 billion merger that would create the world's fourth-largest automaker. A primary reason for the merger is to share the cost of developing electric and autonomous vehicles.

Pfizer and Mylan, the maker of EpiPens, are merging. Pfizer will offload Upjohn, its portfolio of drugs that are no longer protected by patents, including Viagra, Lipitor and Celebrex, combining with rival Mylan to create a new company that will have a new, yet-to-be-announced name.

On Sunday, February 24, film fans, pop culture fanatics, and all of Hollywood’s brightest stars will tune in to the live broadcast of the 91st Oscars ceremony. With eight movies nominated for best picture, from the bombastic Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody to the devastatingly poetic Roma, the ceremony is guaranteed to be star-studded, ornate, and maybe even a little unpredictable.

As more and more of our daily life becomes automated, analyzed, and interconnected, people look forward to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) every year to learn about emerging tech and its potential application to everyday life.

Back in 2016, we looked at the Fastest Growing Patent Law Firms, or as we called them, "The Rainmaker Firms." Now two years later, we want to get a fresh look at which law firms are the fastest growing in terms of patent filings with the USPTO.

Less than six weeks apart, both Apple and Amazon hit major milestones, reaching $1 trillion in valuation. (Apple on August 2, 2018, and Amazon on September 4, 2018.)

These two tech giants, along with Facebook, Netflix, and Google, are often grouped under the acronym “FAANG,” and are synonymous with rapid growth and innovation. As a group, the five companies command over $3 trillion in market capitalization and hold thousands of patents.

But from a patent prosecution perspective, how similar are they? What does FAANG patent prosecution activity tell us about organizations on their way to (and surpassing the) $1 trillion benchmark?