An Action-Packed Summer for PTAB
By Don Wang If you spent this past summer looking forward to the most recent Fantastic Four movie, I am deeply sorry for the utter disappointment. However, if you have been following the news of the...
View ArticleMore Technical-Seeming Claims Held Patent-Ineligible Under 35 U.S.C. § 101
Patent claims directed to a “payload delivery system” for delivering payloads, i.e., data, “via one or more communication networks” have been held invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Novo Transforma Tech.,...
View ArticleHughes on Obviousness: The Problem Motivates the Solution
by Dennis Crouch Dome Patent v. Michelle Lee in her capacity as Director of the USPTO (Fed. Cir. 2015) Patent No 4,306,042 issued in 1981 and expired in 1998, but is still being litigated. The patent...
View Article“Domain Name Arbitration”: An Old Testament for a New Body of Law
The new UDRP Bible. Internet law, “we” used to say, is a young man’s game. We stopped saying it though — not because political correctness mandates that we say “young person,” though it does. But no,...
View ArticleFinest Cordless Drill Blog by Milford Betancourt
There is a whole lot of discussions going on on boards,blogs and social media on what the best cordless drill is. I might say it is all about your needs and your state of affairs. Should you reside in...
View ArticleTexas Veterans Commission vs. VA or – Why Is VA Hiding From You?
Why is VA ducking you? If you need to call or e-mail someone working for the Texas Veterans Commission, it really couldn’t be easier. The Texas Veterans Commission offers Veterans a full employee...
View ArticleAriosa v. Sequenom: Petitioning the Federal Circuit to Reverse Course on...
This is a really important question both with respect to biologics and other interventions and also as the Federal Circuit does work with the Supreme Court’s body of precedents. We have basically two...
View ArticleAriosa v. Sequenom: Petitioning the Federal Circuit to Reverse Course on...
This is a really important question both with respect to biologics and other interventions and also as the Federal Circuit does work with the Supreme Court’s body of precedents. We have basically two...
View ArticleSherlock Holmes as Classical Fairytale
(I keep thinking I'll blog more regularly and it keeps not happening. Sorry about that.) About two years ago, the United States joined the UK and the rest of the world in acknowledging that Sherlock...
View ArticleNinth Circuit Rejects Video Privacy Protection Act Claims Against Sony
Shutterstock / SoulCurry – I love My Privacy This lawsuit asserts Sony failed to purge Video Privacy Protection Act-covered information and made impermissible transfers to an affiliated entity. The...
View ArticleJudge Allows Paramount to Sue Wall Street Investment Firms
After beating fraud claims at a trial last year, the film studio went on the offensive.read more
View ArticleQualifications for patent attorneys to represent before the UPC have been...
Thanks to a very timely email from CIPA (the UK Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys) the IPKat has been alerted to the fact that a further draft of the Rules relating to the European Patent...
View ArticleAT&T, Verizon must pay for investigation of “service quality” problems
Saying that AT&T and Verizon have failed to consistently provide quality phone service, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has demanded that the companies pay for a study of their...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Listener Are You?
Penguin Random House Audio has a site up aimed at new audiobook listeners. Called simply tryaudiobooks.com it offers a free audiobook download and an interesting hypothesis: there are audio books to...
View ArticleHow highly advanced hackers (ab)used satellites to stay under the radar
One of the world's most advanced espionage groups has already been caught unleashing an extremely stealthy trojan for Linux systems that for years siphoned sensitive data from governments and...
View ArticleTiVo’s new patent creed: Even Samsung’s cell phones infringe our DVR patents
TiVo has sued Samsung for patent infringement, seeking to add the Korean electronics giant to the long list of companies that have paid TiVo for its patents. The new lawsuit seeks to keep patent...
View ArticleIs a Paper Book Sharing App Illegal Under French Law?
French startup Booxuphas created an app allowing its users to borrow hard cover or paperback books from the libraries of other users. It launched its service last spring. This is how it works: a user...
View ArticleDuchamp Estate Uses Copyright Law to Checkmate 3D Artists
In September 2014, Kildall and Cera received a legal threat from the Estate of Marcel Duchamp, telling them to remove the files from Thingiverse, remove the blog post discussing them, and make an offer...
View ArticleWednesday whimsies
What if a new version of theMouse replaced the old?Trade marks and recall of altered goods: can you help? One of our long-term readers has been researching into the trade mark owner’s capacity to...
View ArticleDirector of national intelligence: Snowden forced “needed transparency”
WASHINGTON, DC– In comments after giving the opening plenary presentation of the Intelligence & National Security Summit, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that the disclosures...
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