Intellectual Property partner John Lu commented on Andre Iancu’s recent departure from the US Trademark and Patent Office in the article “Iancu: a ‘good shepherd’ of the IP system,” published in World Intellectual Property Review.
Mr. Lu agrees that the Patent Office under Iancu saw an increase in the reliability of the patent grant and created a more pro-IP environment, stating, “Principally, post-grant proceedings such as inter partes reviews are statistically less likely to invalidate patents, and therefore patentees can more confidently rely on granted patents.”
