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Attorneys
- Steven A. Abreu - Partner, Trademark Chair
- Robert M. Asher - Partner, Patent Office Litigation Chair
- William Braunlin, Ph.D. - Patent Agent
- Thomas C. Carey - Partner, Business Chair
- Lena M. Cavallo - Attorney
- Erin E. Connors - Attorney
- Edward J. Dailey - Of Counsel
- Wendy J. Demoracski - Attorney
- Luke Demoracski, Ph.D. - Attorney
- Lawrence M. Green - Partner
- Arne Hans, Ph.D. - Attorney
- George J. Jakobsche - Partner
- Peter J. Karol - Of Counsel
- Christopher Lacenere, Ph.D. - Attorney
- Joel R. Leeman - Partner
- Timothy M. Murphy - Partner, Patent Co-Chair
- Kathryn E. Noll - Partner, Patent Co-Chair
- Samuel J. Petuchowski, Ph.D., J.D. - Of Counsel
- Jay Sandvos - Partner
- Alexander J. Smolenski, Jr. - Partner
- Katherine W. Soule - Attorney
- Sharona H. Sternberg - Partner
- Bruce D. Sunstein - Founder, Partner
- Kerry L. Timbers - Managing Partner
- Lisa M. Tittemore - Partner, Litigation Chair
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- Trademark Lesson Ripped from the Headlines: Trump Team Books the Wrong Four Seasons
- The Supreme Court Ponders These Questions in Google v. Oracle: Is the Sky Falling? Is JAVA like the QWERTY Keyboard?
- YouTube’s Copyright Policy: Pitfalls Aplenty for Video Creators
- The Department of Justice Takes on the IEEE
- The Ongoing Saga of American Axle and Patent Eligibility
- The EU-US Privacy Shield is Invalid: Facebook May Be Only the First Casualty
- When a State University is a Reluctant Plaintiff, Can Its Licensee Sue Anyway?
- FanDuel Learns the Hard Way: An IPR Challenge to Any Patent Claim May be Lost if Not Comprehensive and Rigorous Enough
- Scraping Too Much Website Data May Be Trade Secret Misappropriation
- Businesses Beware: Don’t Restrain Former Employees by Exaggerating Your Trade Secret Claims
- No License, No Chips: Qualcomm’s Controversial Licensing Strategy Is Not an Antitrust Violation
- Activision Wins the (Trademark) War: First Amendment Protects Depiction of Humvees in Realistic Video Games
- Supreme Court Denies Copyright Enforcement to State Legislature
- 3M Strikes Against N95 Mask Price Gouging
- Trademark Infringement Remedies Just Got Snappier? United States Supreme Court Says Proving Willfulness Is Not Required For Recovering an Infringer’s Profits
- Or Forever Hold Your Peace: Supreme Court Ruling Will Spur Early Efforts to Sway PTAB as to Timeliness of IPR Petitions
- AI Machine is Denied Patent
- Back to Work: The Use of Contact Tracing Technology to Improve Worker Safety
- Federal Circuit Averts Huge Disruption to the Patent System by Fashioning a Cure to the Status of Administrative Judges
- Facial Recognition: A Clear View to Dystopia
- Court’s Strict Interpretation of Timing Requirement May Force Patent Validity Challenges in Two Forums
- Virus-Related Legislation Extends Patent and Trademark Deadlines
- Upgrade of Appeal Board Decisions Sought to Help Patent Medical Innovations
- Does the Defense Production Act Provide a Safe Harbor Against Infringement Claims?
- Fresh is Best and Stale Will Fail: The PTAB Explains Its Logic in Refusing to Institute an IPR
- Supreme Court Allows States to Plunder Copyrighted Videos
- Federal Circuit Astonishingly Invalidates Manufacturing Method Patent under Section 101
- U.S. Navy is no [Software] Pirate Despite Making 430,000 Extra Copies
- Exploitation of Publicly Available Website Data May be Unstoppable
- California Leads the Nation in Privacy Protection, But To Where?
- FTC Unfriends Facebook But Wants to Stay in Touch
- Federal Circuit Asks Congress to Override Supreme Court's Denial of Patents for Diagnostics
- Twenty Years Under the Microscope: A Small Business, a Data Breach and the FTC
- Humvee Goes Into Battle: Will Its Trademarks Leave Tread Marks on Video Game Makers?
- State Universities Are Not Immune From Challenges to Their Patents at the USPTO
- Bipartisan Legislation Develops to Remove Supreme Court Roadblocks to Biotechnology and Computer Science Patents
- The California Consumer Privacy Act: More Relevant Than You Think
- Brewing Up a Controversy: Super Bowl Ad Provokes Clash Between Two Beer Industry Juggernauts
- IP Considerations For Distinctive Moves and Other Content in Video Games
- Europe’s One-Stop Shop for Privacy Regulation: For EU Companies Only?
- Secret Sales Trigger the On-Sale Bar under the Patent Statute, Says the Supreme Court
- Once Again, the Federal Circuit Strikes Down Claims Directed to a Diagnostic Method
- Not All Litigation Expenses Are Recoverable Under the Copyright Act
- Copyright Owners Must Wait to File Infringement Claims
- Big Changes to Canada’s Trademark Laws
- Digital Resale: Where New Technology Stumbles Over Old Law
- Restricting Keyword Advertising Can be Anticompetitive, holds the FTC
- PTO Director Iancu Launches Bold Initiative to Resolve Uncertainty in Patent Eligibility Determinations
- New Guidelines Proposed for Functional Claiming in Computer-Related Inventions
- The Federal Circuit Refines the Post-Alice Landscape, Holding Spreadsheet Tabs Patent-Eligible
- Congress Freshens Up Music Copyright Law for the Digital Age
- Non-Competition Agreements: Massachusetts Meets California Halfway
- Massachusetts Trade Secret Protections Are About to Resemble Everyone Else’s. That Brings Changes that Businesses Should Know About.
- Revisions to Bayh-Dole Act Regulations Governing Rights to Federally Funded Inventions
- Section 101 Gains a Toehold in IPRs
- Study Demonstrates Positive Economic Impact of Trademark Filing
- In Limited Circumstances, the Supreme Court Permits Businesses to Recover Patent Damages for Sales Made Outside the U.S.
- New Guidance for Patenting Method-of-Treatment Inventions
- So You Thought the GDPR Was Fun? Wait Till you See What California Has In Store
- The Right to Try Act: A New Avenue for Use of Experimental Drugs
- PTAB Proceedings Becoming More Indefinite
- Copying Complex APIs is Not Fair Use: The Federal Circuit Turns the Software World on its Ear
- Lessons for BioPharma from Recent Federal Circuit Decisions on Patent Eligibility
- The Supreme Court Changes the Rules for IPRs: The Implications for Partial Denials, Indefinite Claims and Redundant Grounds
- Law Enforcement in the Cloud; The U.S. Storms in and Europe Follows
- Justice Delayed? Here’s Why Inter Partes Reexamination has been Replaced by Inter Partes Review
- Cox Communications Makes Its Mark as the First Major Cable Provider To Lose its DMCA Immunity from Copyright Infringement
- Divided Patent Infringement: The Federal Circuit Doubles Down on a New Standard
- For Want of an Immediate Assignment of Patent Interests, Enforcement Rights Were Lost
- The Federal Circuit Continues to Uphold Some Software Patents Despite Alice
- The First Circuit Allows a Chapter 11 Debtor to Terminate A Trademark License
- The New Tax Bill and Its Effect on Inventors: A Capital Result
- Litigate Your Trademark Rights With Care, No Matter what Forum You’re In
- Three New Federal Circuit Decisions Support Software Patents
- New Local Rule May Speed Up Patent Cases and Attract More Litigation to Massachusetts
- Disclaimer Tactic Averts Facebook’s Patent Challenge
- Smoothing the Way for Appellate Success in the PTAB
- Rehearing Wins Institution of Inter Partes Review
- Federal Circuit Delivers Billion-Dollar Lesson on Written Description
- Patent Office Cracks Down On Repetitive Validity Challenges
- A Patent License Conundrum: Is the Definition of “Valid Claim” Subject to Arbitration?
- Federal Circuit Is Finding More Inventions Patent-Eligible Despite Supreme Court’s Rigid Standard
- Federal Circuit Tells Patent Office: Rejecting Claims for Obviousness Must Be Better Supported
- Corporations Cannot Be Sued for Patent Infringement in a Judicial District Simply Because Their Employees Happen to Work from Home There
- IP Decisions Expected from the Supreme Court This Year
- The Federal Circuit Limits the Scope of Covered Business Method Proceedings
- States Are Cracking Down on Cybersecurity Laggards
- The Sale of a Patented Product Now Exhausts All U.S. Patent Rights
- Why China Should Top Your List of Countries for Foreign Patent Filing
- Settlement Agreements Can Provide a Yardstick for Measuring Damages in Subsequent Patent Infringement Lawsuits
- Functional Software’s Limited Copyright Coverage: Jury Finds Google’s Limited Use of Oracle’s Java™ Code Was Fair
- The On-Sale Bar Remains A Mighty Obstacle to Patentability, Even If The Sale Involves No Public Disclosure of the Invention
- Supreme Court Reduces Risk to Patent Owners Who Are Slow to Bring a Patent Infringement Lawsuit
- Give Me a ©! Supreme Court Examines Cheerleader Uniforms and Gives Designers a Means to Protect Their Creations
- “Anyone Could’ve Come Up with That Invention.” Oh, Really. Prove It!
- A Joke So Funny Louis Vuitton Forgot to Laugh – The Danger of Suing Over a Parody
- Non-Infringing Parties May Be Able to Challenge a Patent in an IPR, but Not Appeal the Result
- Plenty of IP Decisions Expected From the Supreme Court This Year
- Challenging a Competitor’s Patent in the Patent Office: Great When it Works, but Failure Increases the Risk of a Court-Issued Injunction
- Massachusetts Creates Tax Credit Program for Angel Investors
- On-Sale Bar Clarified for Drugmaker
- Patent Owners Beware: Preliminary Response in Inter Partes Review Takes On New Significance
- The Federal Circuit Helps Software Developers Overcome Patent-Eligibility Rejections under Alice
- Fast-Forwarding Privacy: A Video Tape Rental Statute in the Digital Era
- Insurance Coverage for Data Breaches: A Pig in a Poke for Retail Establishments?
- Assignor Estoppel May Apply to A Competitor That Never Owned (Or Assigned) the Patent
- Alice Turns 2: Fed. Circ. Grapples With ‘Implicit Exceptions’
- U.S. Supreme Court Eases Standards for Obtaining Enhanced Patent Damages for Willful Infringement
- Inter Partes Review – Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
- Goodbye OHIM, Hello EUIPO− −Changes to Trademark Law in Europe
- A User’s Guide to the EU-US Privacy Shield
- May Sellers of Patented Products Retain Rights after a Sale?
- How Should the PTO Interpret Patent Claims? The Federal Circuit Weighs In, Yet Again
- Google Books Project Continues to Test the Boundaries of Fair Use Law
- The EU Reveres Data Privacy, the US Puts National Security First, and US Businesses are Caught in the Middle
- Preventing Importation of Your Patented Goods: Guidance on What the ITC Can and Can’t Do for Patent Owners
- The Specter of Indefiniteness: Recent Rulings Pose Further Challenges for Computer Software Patents
- Issues Resolved in an Administrative Trademark Proceeding May Bind Federal Courts in Subsequent Infringement Actions
- Recent (and Anticipated) Developments in the International Application of US Patent Laws
- How Prometheus Has Upended Patent Eligibility: An Anatomy of Alice Corporation Proprietary Limited v. CLS Bank International
- Briefings from the Trademark Universe
- Sour Grapes: When Can a Thief Spoil an Inventor’s Right to a Patent?
- DDR Holdings: The Federal Circuit Leaves a Software Patent Standing
- How Broadly Should Patent Claims Be Construed in Inter Partes Reviews? The Federal Circuit Enters the Debate
- Oldies and Broadcasters: No Longer Happy Together?
- Surviving the Judicial War on Patents: Strategies after Alice and Ultramercial
- The Supreme Court Bans Aereo’s Service: An Odd Decision With an Odd Rationale
- Yet Again, the Supreme Court Narrows Patent Eligibility, This Time Targeting Computer-Related Inventions
- Supreme Court Rejects Inducement Liability Where There’s No Direct Infringer
- What is Happening to Patent Eligibility and What Can We Do About It?
- Trademark Falsely Suggesting Connection to a Native American People is Denied Registration
- Can a Foreign Bankruptcy Upset the License Of a U.S. Patent? A Court of Appeals Says “No”
- How Will the Supreme Court Decide the Aereo Case?
- Can Amendments Made in Patent Prosecution Give Rise to Judicial Estoppel?
- New Obstacles Are Raised to Protecting Computer-Related Inventions
- Fresh Guidance for Owners of Standard-Essential Patents: Reasonable Royalties Can Be Expected; So Can Penalties if You Overreach
- Don’t Do It Unless You Mean It — Voluntary Surrender of a Trademark Registration is Irreversible
- How Prometheus Has Upended Patent Eligibility An Anatomy of CLS Bank v. Alice Corp., 717 F.3d 1269 (Fed. Cir. 2013)
- America Invents Act Delivers: Quick Administrative Decision On Patent Challenge Brings Hope to Accused Infringers
- YourTrademark.Anything – Trademark Protection in the Age of the Limitless Internet
- Reverse Payments by Drug Companies: The Supreme Court Declines to Adopt a Bright-Line Test
- Patent Trolls in the Crosshairs: Vermont’s Aggressive Stance and the Emerging Federal Response
- The Name Game: The USPTO and FDA approval process for the selection and protection of new drug names.
- Patent Owners Gain Revitalized Right of Enforcement Against Equivalents
- Gimme Shelter: When Does a Content-Sharing Website Incur Copyright Liability?
- SS - To the Chagrin of Copyright Holders, Consumers Win the Right to Resell Imported Books
- Litigator’s Perspective- I’ve a Hunch You’re Stealing My Invention: Low Standard Prevails for Alleging Patent Infringement
- Strategies for Pharmaceutical Portfolio & Product Life-Cycle Management In Face of the New U.S. Patent Law
- How to Use Patents to Protect Your Company’s Business Model
- The USPTO and FDA Drug Name Approval Process
- A Covenant Not to Sue Can Disable a Competitor’s Trademark Cancellation Action–But at What Cost?
- Limiting Remedies for Infringement of Standards-Essential Patents: An Emerging Global Consensus
- You Can Jailbreak Phones But Not Tablets: New DMCA Rules Roll Back Fair Use in Favor of Software Owners’ Rights
- Do-Nothing Congress Manages to Crack Down on Trade Secret Thieves
- The New European Unitary Patent: All Your Eggs in One Basket
- Trademark Rights in a Global Economy
- Why due diligence is not a rear-guard action for the patent-savvy company in a patent deal
- Litigator’s Perspective: Judicial About-Face Has Just Made Joint Infringement Easier to Prove
- When Big Pharma Pays to Stall the Introduction of Generic Drugs, Is It Legal?
- Patent Filers: Beware the Ides of March January 2 to March 15, 2013 will be beyond busy, so planning is essential
- Litigator’s Perspective: Appellate Judge Stoops to Try a Smartphone Case and Turns Patent Litigation on Its Ear
- Discomfort Grows as Patent Reexamination Once Again Trumps Court Decision
- Hot Topics in Trademark Law: Trademark Rights in A Global Economy – Protection and Enforcement of Well-Known and Famous Marks
- Trademark Rights in a Global Economy: Protection and Enforcement of Famous and Well-Known Marks
- Crazy In Love With Trademarks: What Can Jay-Z and Beyoncé Teach Us About Trademark Filing?
- Claim Construction on the Verge of Transformation: The Disruptive Promise of Inter Partes Review
- The Inventor’s Burden: Teach Your Best Mode Lest Your Patent be Invalidated
- Federal Circuit Thumps Means-Plus-Function Computer Claims Again — But Not Without Dissent
- Why due diligence is not a rear guard action for the patent-savvy company in a patent deal
- Strategies for Pharmaceutical Portfolio & Product Life-Cycle Management In Face of the New U.S. Patent Law
- Pharmaceutical Companies Take Heed — Compulsory Patent License Is Awarded in India
- Overseas Infringement by A Government Contractor: Who, if Anyone, is Liable?
- Supreme Court Invalidates Diagnostic Claims; Its Reasoning Promises Broad Implications
- Inter Partes Review: The New Markman Hearing?
- The Standard for Invalidating a Patent for Obviousness? Still a Work in Progress
- Sentences of Pirate Bay Founders Are Confirmed, But They May Avoid the Brig
- The Standard for Invalidating a Patent for Obviousness? Still a Work in Progress
- Starbucks Absorbs Another Loss in Its Long Trademark Battle with Charbucks
- To Russia With Love: Supreme Court Upholds Restoration of Copyright in Works of Russian Authors and Composers (And Many Others)
- Not the Cadillac of Trade Secrets, But Still Deserving of Protection
- Court Raises the Heat on Patentee Who Persisted with Baseless Infringement Suit
- Navigating the Shoals of Copyright Termination
- When Trade Secrets Are Stolen Overseas, Can the Thief Compete in the U.S.?
- Sure as Shootin’, If It’s Claimed in Your Patent, You Can’t Assert It as a Trade Secret
- America Invents Act: Highlights of First-to-File
- The Importance of Distinguishing a Product From an Invention
- Congress Brings First-to-File Patent System to the U.S.
- The twilight of false-marking suits against patent owners
- Intellectual Property Overview
- “Clear and Convincing Evidence” is Still Required To Invalidate a Patent
- Supreme Court Affirms Precedence of Inventor’s Personal Patent Rights Over Those of a University Employer
- Federal Circuit Strikes Hard Against the “Plague” of the Inequitable Conduct Defense
- Federal Circuit Strikes Hard Against the “Plague” of the Inequitable Conduct Defense
- How To Keep Your Brand Name Out of the Adult Industry’s Neighborhood
- Isn’t Asserting a Trade Secret Inconsistent with Seeking a Patent? Not If the Secret is a Unique Combination of Known Elements
- Court Widens Use of Reissue Applications for Strengthening Patents Against Infringement
- Disembodied Embodiments: Medical Device Strategy for PCT and Foreign Applications
- Federal Circuit Moves Claim Construction One Step Closer to Uniformity
- False-Marking Cases Might Soon be Extinct
- Change Is in the Air: Be Ready for a First-To-File Patent System
- One Hand Taketh Away, the Other Giveth: For Method Claims, It’s Tough to Prove Joint Infringement, But for System Claims, It’s Easier
- New Copyright Law Touches on Publication and Recordkeeping Issues
- Unused Capabilities of a Product Can Infringe Well Written Patent Claims
- 25% Rule is Drawn and Quartered: Court Rejects Popular Method for Computing Patent Infringement Damages
- Double Your Patents, Double Your Trouble? A Departure in Double-Patenting Law
- Joint Patent Infringement Is Now Even Harder to Prove
- The DMCA Re-Fanged: Courts Now At Odds Over Copyright Protection for Software Security Devices
- Business Method Claims after Bilski: The Federal Circuit Weighs in on Abstractness
- With Supreme Court Deadlock, Cloud Lingers Over Gray Market Goods
- Supreme Court Will Tackle Interplay of University and Inventor Patent Rights
- The DMCA De-Fanged: Why Software Developers Need to Register Their Software With the Copyright Office
- Five-lecture series at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- The Federal Circuit Hems in the Patent Misuse Doctrine, Making Patent Pooling Safer
- Updated Guidelines on What Is “Obvious” Reflect an Updated PTO
- Software Makers, Take Note: Court Defines “Circumvention” Downward
- Copyright Decision Deals Crippling Blow to Infringer: Decorative Furniture Not Merely Functional
- When Does an “Offer for Sale” Made in Another Country Result in Infringement of a U.S. Patent?
- Bimbo Knows the Muffin Man . . . and Teaches Him a Lesson in Trade Secrets
- The Federal Circuit Boots Another Patent Case Out of Texas, and Sends a Message
- Who’s Holding the Bag? When a Website Sells Infringing Articles, Credit Card Companies May Face Liability
- Congress May Restore Copyright Protection to Public Domain Foreign Works Despite First Amendment Concerns
- Bratz Beats Barbie: Appeals Court Reverses Jury Verdict and Rejects Constructive Trust
- The Federal Circuit Boots Another Patent Case Out of Texas, and Sends a Message
- Bilski v. Kappos: The Supreme Court Strikes a Blow for Inventors
- Silence is Deadly: The Peril of Inaction After Calling Someone an Infringer
- Generic.com: Should “Generic” Domain Names Be Registerable as Trademarks?
- Strategic Implications for Pharmaceuticals in Recent U.S. Patent Law Developments
- What Kind of Patent Portfolios Will Matter to Life Science Companies in the Next Five Years
- Going Once, Going Twice: Tiffany Makes Another Bid to Restrict Auctions of Counterfeit Jewelry on eBay
- Overzealous Trade-Secret Plaintiff Gets His Just Desserts
- Federal Judge Would Invalidate All DNA Patents, But His Rationale Is Controversial
- Can Ignorance Be a Defense? The Evolving Law of Inducement of Patent Infringement
- “Best Mode” of the Whole Invention Must Be Described
- Museum Conflict Clarifies Rights of Artists
- Federal Circuit Stamps Out Feud Between Postal Service and Sculptor
- Recent State Law Developments in Intellectual Property
- Pay for Delay” Settlements: The FTC ‘s 2010 Annual Report
- “Ongoing Royalties” for Post-Verdict Patent Infringement
- Apple Strikes Back Against the Clones: Injunction Stops Sale of Third-Party Computers Running Mac OS X
- Patents on the Fringe
- Judge Urges – No, Implores — Congress to Amend the Copyright Act: When Might Sharing Digital Music Be Fair Use?
- Google Book Project Tries to Placate the Critics: Will It Be Enough?
- The Controversy Over “Ongoing Royalty” Awards in the Evolving Landscape of Remedies for Patent Infringement
- Tax Treatment of Infringement Damages: Plan Ahead to Improve Your Results
- When Uncle Sam Wants Your Invention
- PTO Aims in a New Direction: Pulls Dreaded Prosecution Rules; Seeks Improved Quality of Its Services
- The FDA Approves an ANDA Despite An Appeals Court Stay, And Another Appeals Court Approves
- Federal Circuit Holds Litigants to Strict Evidentiary Standards in Proving Patent Infringement Damages
- Arrogance or Recklessness? Microsoft Faces a Hefty Judgment and a Permanent Injunction for Willful Infringement
- All Inventors Aboard on Your International Patent Application? Benefits of Early Filing Depend on Complete Ownership of Rights
- The UPC Code: A New Frontier for Trademark Infringement?
- Department of Justice Takes Aggressive View of “Pay for Delay” Settlements with Generic Drug Manufacturers
- Polar Opposites: A High Tech Non-Compete Exposes Legal Conflict Between Massachusetts and California
- Federal Circuit Finally Dispels Uncertainty Over the Scope of Product-By-Process Claims
- Federal “Good Samaritan” Statute Protects Seller of Software That Blocks Adware and Spyware
- Adventure on the Appellation Trail: Joseph Abboud Gives Away His Name, Yet May Get to Use it Anyway
- Baseball Manager Sues Social Networking Site: Don’t Twitter, Tweet, or Otherwise Cheat Me
- Patent Pools May be Cool, But Drowning Competitive Technologies is Not
- European Developments: Trademark Rights Strengthened
- European Developments: Copyright Term Extended
- Trade Show Exhibit Subjects Foreign Businessman to Federal Jurisdiction
- Where Have I Seen THAT Before? Court Says Plagiarism Detector Makes Fair Use of Students’ Copyrighted Term Papers
- Related Applications, Separately Owned, Create Double-Patenting Hazard
- Other Pirates in the News: Copyright Infringers in Sweden Head for the Brig
- Middle Earth, Not Middle Ground: Minnesota Weighs in on Insurance Coverage of Trademark Infringement
- A First Amendment Right to Peter and the Wolf? Restoration of Copyright for Works of Foreign Authors in Doubt
- After Quanta, Lower Courts Expand the Patent Exhaustion Doctrine
- Keyword Advertising: Small Victory for Trademark Owner Will Not Slow Search Engine Juggernaut
- Experimental Use – A Fragile Shield Against the One-Year Deadline for Filing Your Patent Application
- Federal Judge: The Bell Tolls for Business Method Patents
- What Can I Say: Leeway and Legal Limits in Commercial Speech A Primer on Defamation, Commercial Disparagement and False Advertising
- RA - “Inter Partes Reexamination Statistics Trend Heavily Against Patent Owners,”
- Compensation for Employee Inventions: A Novel Twist in the UK
- Federal Circuit’s Validation of PTO Rules May Prove Unsettling to Inventors
- Don’t Just Give it Away: Unless a Product is Sold, European Law Recognizes No Genuine Trademark Use
- Clickwrap License Thwarts Hackintosh Bid to Force its Way into Apple
- Federal Preemption Has Its Limits: State law Governs Theft of Trade Secrets Even When a Patent is Involved
- Patent Portfolio Strategies in the Post-KSR Environment
- Has STARBUCKS Been Diluted? The Ongoing Effort to Protect Famous Marks
- Reverse Payments’ Pass Another Test: Federal Circuit Adopts Rule of Reason
- New Procedures May Lure More Patent Lawsuits to Massachusetts
- Method Claims Can Be Reformed to Avoid Patentability Problems
- U. S. Antitrust Limitations on Patent Licensing
- Federal Circuit Narrows Eligibility Requirements for Business Method Patents
- Inter Partes Reexamination Digs a Patent Graveyard
- “In Ex Parte Reexamination, Challenger to a Patent’s Validity Can Recycle Arguments That Failed at Trial,”
- The Pro IP Act: Getting Tough With Traffickers of Counterfeit Goods
- What a Shame: When Artist and Museum Fight, No One Wins
- It Doesn’t Take Much: Familiarity With a Competitor’s Trade Secrets Can Doom Your Reverse Engineering Project to Legal Limbo,
- Immunity from Infringement For Use in Clinical Testing
- PTO Lobs National Security Salvo at Outsourcing the Preparation of US Patent Applications
- A Voyage to Mars: A Patent Is Licensed to A Subsidiary, And All Is Lost
- Speedo’s Innovative Swimsuit Makes Big Splash In Advance of 2008 Summer Olympics
- Strategic Approaches for Protecting Pharmaceutical Innovations in the Changing U.S. Patent Environment
- Protecting and Enforcing Copyright
- Again, the FTC Talks Tough on Protecting Introduction of Generic Drugs
- Supreme Court Hands Another Loss to Patent Owners in Quanta Computer Case
- What Makes a Patent Claim Indefinite?
- A Clever Idea that Failed: An Unsolicited Covenant Not to Sue Does Not Deprive an ANDA Filer of Standing to Sue,”
- Are the Judges on the Board of Patent Appeals Properly Appointed?
- Siegel et al. v. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., et al., United States District Court, Central District of California
- PTO Appeals the Ban on its Rules Package; Uncertainty Reigns
- Rambus v. FTC: Memory Chip Pioneer Rambus Rescued a Second Time From the Quicksand of Standards Setting
- Tafas v. Dudas: New Patent Rules Struck Down—Uncertainty Remains
- Amgen v. International Trade Commission: FDA-Related Safe Harbor for Importation Applies to Process Patents, Not Just Product Patents
- Hall Street Associates: Arbitration Results Are Final Despite Erroneous Legal Analysis
- Quick Success With Accelerated Patent Examination
- Although on Hold for Now, Rule Changes May Yet Transform Patent Protection
- False Advertising Damages – ‘No Harm No Foul’ … Think Again
- Year in Review: Trademarks in 2007
- Patent Preparation and Prosecution under Uncertain Patent Eligibility Standards
- Patentable Subject Matter and the Supreme Court: What’s the Matter?
- Building and Maintaining BioPharma Patent Portfolios After KSR v. Teleflex: Strategies Addressing Higher Standards for Patentability
- New PTO Claims and Continuation Practice: Working with the Rules
- Sweeping Changes to the Patent Rules Require New Strategies
- Checklist: When does a patent expire?
- More Than Smart
- Reverse Doctrine of Equivalents
- Expert Advice: Patent defendants have the upper hand – for now
- We’re Not in Texas Anymore: Supreme Court Drastically Limits Where You Can Sue for Patent Infringement
- Expert Analysis: How KSR v. Teleflex should change your patent strategies
- Expert Analysis: What KSR v. Teleflex means to electronics and innovation
- Expert Advice: How to Write a Legible Patent
- Strong Advocacy Needed: Supreme Court Raises the Patentability Bar To Indefinite Heights
- Focusing on Inter Partes Reexamination
- Injunctive Relief after eBay v. MercExchange
- Patent Fever
- Plavix Case Illustrates Perils of Generic Drug Wars – Regulatory Problems, Poor Judgment led to BMS’ Costly Situation
- Supreme Court Buys eBay’s Injunction Argument, But There Is More to Come
- Harnessing Collaborative Web-Based Technology To Bring Prior Art to the Patent Process— An Inventor’s Perspective
- FIOS: The Next Wave in the Broadband Triple Play Or Is It?
- Is Your Patent Definite Enough? Or Is It Fragile?
- Post Issuance Strategies for Patentee and Third Parties
- Patent Reform Proposal Would Bring Major Changes
- Technology and Copyright Tend to Find Equilibrium
- Grokster and StreamCast- Copyright Trumps P2P Filesharing- For Now
- Claiming Subject Matter in Business Method Patents
- Lessons from Grokster: Avoiding Liability for Inducing Copyright Infringement
- Funding Patent Assertion Litigation
- Sophisticated Use of Reexamination and Reissue
- What’s This Case Worth?
- Patents: Billions Riding on a Word
- Copyright Litigation: Strategic Opportunities for Settlement
- Making Words Mean Just What We Choose Them to Mean: Patent Claim Interpretation in Light of Phillips v. AWH
- Harmonizing Standards for District Court and PTAB Claim Construction
- Reexamination: The Tail that Wags the Dog
- When Lost Profits Are Lost: Damages in Patent Assertion on Litigation with an IP Holding Company
- Add Inter Partes Re-Examination to Your Patent Infringement Defense
- One Stop Trademark Registration under the Madrid Protocol
- The ‘Artistic Relevance Test’ Just Became Relevant: The Increasing Strength of the First Amendment as a Defense to Trademark Infringement and Dilution
- SCO v. IBM: Does the Copyright Act Pre-empt The GPL?
- Investor Relations Meets Intellectual Property
- Competitive Intelligence in Patent Portfolio Building
- Guarding the Goods
- SCO vs. The Linux World … What’s a Linux User to Do?
- Reexamining Patent Litigation
- An Assessment of the New European Community Design Law
- Reducing Corporate Managers’ Risk of Personal Liability for Patent Infringement by Relying on Opinion of Counsel
- Effect of European Union Enlargement on Community Trademark Law
- IP Due Diligence and the Value Proposition: Developing and Evaluating BioPharma IP Portfolios for Strategic Investment Benefits
- Winning at Patents Without Full-Blown Litigation
- Patent tactics against generic drugs draw scrutiny
- The Death of Intellectual Property Holding Companies?: Massachusetts Joins a Growing Number of States Eliminating the State Tax Advantages of IPHCS
- Building a Patent Portfolio for Strategic Advantage
- Generically Speaking
- Patent Portfolio Management and Technical Standard Setting: How to Avoid Loss of Patent Rights
- Drafting Patent Applications After Festo and Johnson & Johnston
- Shelby and Ford Take Aim at Counterfeiters
- Fair Use: The Electronic Frontier Foundation Jumps into the Movie Studios’ Fight with SONICBlue
- Don’t Trade Your Rights Away
- Global Trademark Protection for Biotech and Life Science Companies: What It Takes to Get through the Trademark Thicket
- Jurisdiction and Contract Formation
- Managing Patent and Trade Secret Assets
- When Is It Safe to Tout Technology? Avoiding Unintended Patent Consequences Resulting from Premature Announcements
- Recent Federal Case Undermines Multi-Filing Patent Strategies: A Routine Foreign Filing Trips Up a Patent Holder
- Web Incubators: Formation, Funding and Operations
- Contracting with (or For) Application Service Providers
- Critical Decisions Upon Receiving Accusations of Patent Infringement
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