Patent Thickets, Evergreening and Product Hopping: Falsehoods vs. Fact

Andrei Iancu, Former Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of USPTO (2018-2021) and current Co-Chair of the Council for Innovation Promotion, discusses the terminology used by advocates of weaker patent protections and how the USPTO’s proposal on “terminal disclaimers” is bad policy and likely violates the law.