The adoption of the America Invents Act (AIA) and the US Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v CLS Bank are the key reasons cited by WIPR readers for the drop in US patents granted last year.
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13 January 2016 Technology company IBM has topped the list of recipients of US patents in 2015, beating Samsung and Canon to the top spot, but there has been a slight decline in the overall number of patents granted since 2014.