Patent Law 
Spotlight on Calgary Law Firms – Gemby Professional Services – PRLog (free press release)
Patents need to be registered, so do copyrights and trademarks, and if these are infringed on, companies need a reliable law firm to ensure they don’t get left holding the bag. PRLog (Press Release) – Jun 07, 2012 – Calgary, … Continue reading
Good News and Bad News on Apple’s Patents – Forbes
and this might well succeed under those laws as indeed Apple has used them against the Galaxy tablet recently. But this is just trivialising the patent process. The good news is that enforcement of patents needs to be done by … Continue reading
Google, Mark Cuban, And A Glimpse Into The Heart Of Patent Darkness – Fast Company
Law & Order: Intellectual Property Unit. We’re gonna spider, parse, and scan like it’s 1998, when Lycos acquired patents that could cost Google hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties. To understand the patent mess that is gripping Silicon Valley … Continue reading
Samsung sues Australia’s patent commissioner to hinder Apple patent case – Apple Insider
… are Australian patent rules that disallow so-called innovation patents from being granted as more stable standard patents. The law is meant to keep the patent system from granting duplicate patent filings. Innovation patents, which are used short-term …
Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional” – Gigaom.com
Posner’s cost-benefit assessment is likely rooted in a worldview anchored in law and economics — a Chicago-school of thought that equates court decisions with maximizing efficient economic outcomes. This week, Posner also lashed at the patent system in …
Will Apple’s MacBook Patent Hurt Ultrabook Makers? – PC Magazine
To determine infringement, courts look at whether “an ordinary observer” can see substantial similarities in overall appearance, patent lawyer Rich Goldstein of Goldstein Law Offices told PCMag. “Keeping in mind, of course, that laptops, by their nature …
China changes patent law in fight for cheaper drugs – YAHOO!
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China has overhauled parts of its intellectual property laws to allow its drug makers to make cheap copies of medicines still under patent protection in an initiative likely to unnerve foreign pharmaceutical companies. The Chinese …
Why we need software patents, part 1 of 3 – ZDNet
Summary: The hardware/software distinction is another of those oft-repeated but intellectually nonsensical distinctions that we need to do away with if we are to have an intelligent discussion about software patents. In this week’s ZDNet Great Debate …
Nokia, HP, Verizon back FTC against import bans over standards patents – Infoworld
FTC made the submission in the context of the ITC investigation into Motorola Mobility’s charges of patent infringement against Apple and Microsoft. ITC administrative law judge David Shaw has recommended a ban on Xbox consoles in the U.S. The …
Judge Calls Off Apple v. Motorola Patent Rumble – E-Commerce Times
it would have been the first trial challenging a Motorola patent for Google. Google likely has mixed feelings about the ruling, if only because the trial’s cancellation means the next time it could go up against Apple in a court … Continue reading
