The patent office issued most of its information technology patents to foreigners.
Mixed-gender teams have produced information technology patents that are cited 26 percent to 42 percent more often than the norm, according to the National Center for Women and Information Technology.
In 2005, women were behind only 6.1% of U.S. information technology patents, up from 1.7% in 1980.
He has published widely on copyright law and information technology, patent law and biotechnology, access to medicines, plain packaging of tobacco products, intellectual property and climate change, and indigenous intellectual property.
Homeland security, intelligence, computers and information technology, copyright, patent and trademark issues – and taxes – make up the top five issues on which it has chosen to lobby.
The report found "rampant piracy of film, music, publishing and software products, infringement of pharmaceutical, chemical, information technology and other patents, and counterfeiting of consumer goods, electrical equipment, automotive parts and industrial products".
Forms of infrastructure accounting, global configurations of trading and information technologies, and patent law are examined.
Under his guidance, Digimarc developed some 600 patents, and was named by The Patent Board as one of the top 50 most prolific patent producers in information technology, and sold the majority of its patents to Intellectual Ventures in 2010 for over $40 million.
Even more impressive, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office statistics suggest the penchant for patents among information technology companies will continue; these three sectors saw the highest numbers of new patent applications filed in 2000, the latest year for which data are available.
One common argument, though, is that patents do not belong in the modern world of information technology, citing recent high-profile patent battles.
The company had seen studies showing that other information technology companies filed about two patents for every $1 million spent on research and development.
