María-Paula Salgado is an intellectual property attorney with Luzuriaga & Castro Abogados in Ecuador.

In July 2025, a criminal court in Loja handed down Ecuador’s first conviction for "asociación ilícita", or "illicit association," in an intellectual property case.

Today, the CAFC issued a ruling vacating a final written decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that invalidated ...

Fintiv, Inc. has filed a complaint against Apple, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, ...

Pharmaceutical companies were dealt back-to-back blows over the last 24 hours in their fight against the Biden-era Medicare ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Tuesday partially reversed and remanded a district court decision granting ...

Last week, reports surfaced that spokespeople from the European Commission had confirmed the official withdrawal of ...

Our conversation this week is about PTAB practice and how it has evolved over the last several months; we specifically ...

Late last week, President Donald Trump sent letters to 17 pharmaceutical companies pressing them to deliver on his May ...

In the latest development on USPTO Director Coke Morgan Stewart’s “settled expectations” doctrine, Stewart today denied ...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump Administration is considering a major change to patent fees, which would ...

The Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) today issued a statement taking Congress to task for supporting a bill introduced ...