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  • The number of patent lawsuits being filed in 2015 so far is higher than that seen in 2014. This has been driven by a surge in software patent cases, which last month had the largest number of lawsuits filed since April last year
  • The Senate has confirmed Michelle Lee as the director of the USPTO. She is the first woman to lead the agency
  • Q Todd Dickinson, a former director of the USPTO, has joined Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg as partner
  • The European Patent Office has circulated two proposals regarding the setting of renewal fees for the Unitary Patent. The proposals will be discussed by the Select Committee, representing participating member states, later this month
  • The UK government has broadly accepted proposals by the Law Commission to reform the law concerning threats of IP infringement
  • February was a busy month for PTAB petition filing, and also included a rare reversal of a split decision from the Board as well as the first set of final written decisions on biopharmaceutical IPRs
  • Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass and IP Nav’s Erich Spangenberg have filed a second inter partes review petition against a patent owned by Acorda Therapeutics, as part of a strategy BIO said had “opened a new door to abuse of the US patent system”
  • The latest from Apple and Samsung at the Federal Circuit, Hall & Oates suing a cereal company for trade mark infringement, the USPTO’s Silicon Valley office costing three times more than expected, Under Armour suing Ass Armor, and the effect of fee shifting under the Innovation Act were in the IP headlines this week
  • The introduction of the STRONG Act suggests getting any patent reform passed in the US this year will be very tricky. The bill also proposes radical and worrying reforms of the PTAB
  • The STRONG Patents Act has been introduced in the Senate, including provisions that would overhaul PTAB proceedings. It has support from the Association of American Universities and BIO but critics labelled it “a patent troll-led effort to draft a ‘fig leaf’ bill”