Supreme Court To Consider 12 Patent Petitions Monday
So far, there are zero patent cases (or other IP cases) on the Supreme Court's docket this Term. But tomorrow is the first conference since the Court's summer break, also known as the "Long...
View ArticleStatistics on the use of 101 at PTAB from IPWatchdog
In a post titled PTAB Wonderland: Statistics show Alice PTAB interpretation not favorable to patent applicants , IPWatchdog concludesOverall, the above statistics provide a depressing prognosis for...
View ArticleAnother German politician charged with plagiarizing Ph.D. thesis
Of the case of alleged plagiarism by German Defence Minister Ursula van der Leyen:The Berlin-based law professor Gerhard Dannemann, who investigated her thesis and published his findings on the...
View ArticlePeriscope Summit Recap
My Badge from Periscope Community Summit – September 2015 I had the pleasure of being on a panel with Mitch Jackson to discuss the legalities of live-streaming video apps at the Periscope Community...
View ArticleInventing in America
On April 10, 1790 then President George Washington signed legislation that set the foundation for the current patent system. The first U.S. patent was issued on July 31, 1790, also signed by President...
View ArticleThe Lost ‘Art’ of the Patent System
by Dennis Crouch Sean O’Connor has released a draft version of his new article titled The Lost ‘Art’ of the Patent System. O’Connor builds on his earlier UChicago Article on the meaning of Discovery,...
View ArticleChina’s “Green Dispatch” Policy
Bobby Magill reports at Cleantechnica on this new development. “Clean Dispatch” means using low carbon sources of electricity with priority. From the Cleantechnica article: “China’s ‘green dispatch’...
View ArticleGuest Post: To File a CON? Empirical Popularity and Prosecution Outcomes
Guest Post by Kate S. Gaudry, Ph.D and Thomas D. Franklin, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the...
View ArticleThe International Trade Commission and Section 337: An Underused Trademark...
The Tariff Act of 1930[1] (“Act”) provides that infringement of patent and registered trademark rights[2] to be unfair practices in the importation of goods into the United States. The Act is...
View ArticleMaximizing Bankruptcy Protection in Software and SaaS Agreements
In today’s digital age, cloud computing has lowered the barrier of entry into many marketplaces by providing network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Cloud services allow...
View ArticleDancing baby ruling adds a twist to DMCA Fair Use analysis
Last week, the Ninth Circuit seemed to fire a warning shot across the bow of overzealous copyright holders: Before issuing a DMCA takedown notice, the copyright holder must stop to consider if the...
View ArticleSummary of Recent Precedential Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Decisions
From June through August 2015, the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board issued eleven precedential decisions. Over the course of the upcoming weeks, we are briefly summarizing each opinion and a “take...
View ArticleVolkswagen says it has a plan to fix vehicles embroiled in emissions scandal
(credit: James Workman) Late Monday, Volkswagen Group’s new CEO, Matthias Müller, told a group of about 1,000 managers at Volkswagen headquarters that the company had a plan to refit vehicles involved...
View ArticleFeds say your hard drives are for the government’s keeping
(credit: James Marvin Phelps) The Justice Department is set to argue Wednesday before a federal appeals court that it may prosecute people for crimes based on evidence obtained from their...
View ArticleUSPTO “Streamlined, Expedited Patent Appeal Pilot Program for Small Entities”
Ann Robl The USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board has started another pilot program to reduce the backlog of ex parte appeals waiting to be heard by the Board. The program expedites appeals for small...
View ArticleScan-to-e-mail patent troll loses appeal, can’t avoid Vermont court case
One of the most maligned patent trolls, MPHJ Technology Investments, will have to face claims in state court that it violated Vermont's consumer protection laws. MPHJ and its owner, Texas attorney Mac...
View ArticleJapanese Porn Actress Able to Get Out of Contract Requiring Her to Film Sex...
In the United States, a ruling on the issue could happen soon.read more
View ArticleEd Snowden joins Twitter, follows only the NSA
Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor whose leaked documents opened a worldwide discussion about government surveillance, joined Twitter this morning. So far, he's amassed more...
View ArticleThe Case for Software Patentability, An Interview with David Kappos
KAPPOS: ''Companies like Microsoft and Apple and GE -- all of whom are members [of the Partnership for American Innovation] along with IBM, Ford, DuPont and Pfizer as well as smaller companies like...
View ArticleThe Case for Software Patentability, An Interview with David Kappos
KAPPOS: ''Companies like Microsoft and Apple and GE -- all of whom are members [of the Partnership for American Innovation] along with IBM, Ford, DuPont and Pfizer as well as smaller companies like...
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