SCOTUS Patent Scorecard Update

On Feb. 22, 2017, the Supreme Court issued Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. Briefly stated, Life Technologies limits patent infringement liability.
In the past 12 years, the Supreme Court has issued 28 patent decisions.
The tally: 17 decisions are not Pro-Patent; 6 decisions are Pro-Patent; and 5 decisions are Patent Neutral.
The trend: patent rights pruning continues.
The takeaway: companies that believe intellectual property (IP) rights are assets should consider whether their IP portfolio mix and operations account for that trend and then adjust accordingly.
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