Technology, Research & Development
April 16, 2025
USPTO announces new group to mitigate threats to the patent system
Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced creating a new group to expand the agency’s efforts to mitigate threats and protect the integrity of the U.S. patent system. The USPTO’s Patent Fraud Detection and Mitigation Working Group represents the agency’s continued commitment to limit improper activity in patent applications and reexamination proceedings at USPTO and reduce patent application pendency.
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April 11, 2025
Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base
Executive Orders – April 9, 2025
As Chief Executive and Commander in Chief, I am committed to ensuring that the United States military possesses the most lethal warfighting capabilities in the world. America’s defense industrial base is central to this effort. Similarly, the defense acquisition workforce is a national strategic asset that will be decisive in any conflict, where the factory floor can be just as significant as the battlefield.
Government agency responses due between June 8 and October 6, 2025.
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March 27, 2025
Six Essential Tips for Understanding Intellectual Property Rights Under Government Contracts
Contractors navigating federal procurement must understand how IP is created, owned, and licensed under government agreements. The failure to properly manage IP rights can lead to the unintended loss of ownership, competitive disadvantages, or disputes with the government over licensing terms. These six tips will help contractors protect their innovations while remaining compliant with government regulations.
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March 27, 2025
Leveraging USPTO Delays To Maximize Patent Term
Before the USPTO was subject to a hiring freeze, it assumed it would onboard 400 new examiners between fiscal year 2025 and fiscal year 2026, and still predicted an increase in the backlog of unexamined patent applications. With a hiring freeze in place, the current backlog at nearly 838,000 unexamined patent applications, and the wait for initial examination already over 20 months, applicants can expect the time required to obtain a patent to increase.
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March 26, 2025
Defense SBIR/STTR Program
DoD uses the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) funding mechanism to procure basic and applied research via issuing topics for scientific study and experimentation, which are directed towards advancing the state-of-the-art, increasing knowledge, or understanding, instead of focusing on, a specific system or hardware solution.
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March 7, 2025
Pentagon aims to accelerate acquisition of new tech through software-contracting change – buyers must default to rapid-acquisition processes long used by DIU, SecDef memo orders
“While the commercial industry has rapidly adjusted to a software-defined product reality, DoD has struggled to reframe our acquisition process from a hardware-centric to a software-centric approach,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote in the March 6 memo. “Software is at the core of every weapon and supporting system we field to remain the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.”
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