Patent Law

The court said patents would be allowed if they involved therapeutic or diagnostic techniques that are useful to the embryo itself, like correcting defects. But the justices concluded that the law protects human embryos from any use that could undermine … Continue reading →

Patent protection for stem-cell research methods that involve cells from human embryos is not possible under European Union law, the region’s highest court said. Inventions based on the use of human embryonic stem cells for scientific research …

… the ownership of intellectual property — stakes high enough to have triggered a congressional overhaul of patent law. Though there is plenty of argument over whether the law can be called “reform,” one of its provisions calls for the … Continue reading →

The U.S. International Trade Commission has reportedly sided with Apple Inc. over HTC Corp. in a preliminary decision on a patent infringement lawsuit. According to Reuters, the commission’s administrative law judge Charles Bullock ruled Monday …

With one big exception, that is: the current boom in jobs for patent attorneys. In a Bloomberg report by Sophia Pearson, she writes that IP lawyers “are in such demand that their specialty may account for more than 15 percent … Continue reading →

We’ve spent some time here on LB discussing bad economic straits for law school graduates and first-year attorneys. Is there any positive news for attorney job prospects? Turns out there is. Patent attorneys are seeing a boom in demand …

CHARLESTON, S.C., Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Edna Vassilovski, M.A., J.D., has joined Stipkala LLC as a Patent Attorney, and will open the firm’s Minneapolis office. Stipkala LLC is a U.S. intellectual property law firm with locations also serving …

Loretta A. Preska, the SDNY’s chief judge, said the district’s judges are “well-versed” in patent law, but “this pilot will further refine the court’s expertise, and it will ultimately help us better serve patent litigants.”

Patent professionals work in companies, state and federal governments (including USPTO), private institutes, and nongovernmental organizations. I began to consider patent law as a career after working closely with a patent attorney to help prepare a patent …

(Missouri Lawyers Media Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) When he’s not bending the ear of deep-pocketed venture capitalists, St. Louis biotech entrepreneur Bob Puskas is writing patents. Puskas won’t reveal the protein at the center of a blood test …