Patent Law

ITC Administrative Law Judge David Shaw decided in April that the Xbox has violated four Motorola patents that pertain to the H.264 video compression codec and wireless technologies used in both gaming controllers and consoles. Last month …

SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly a week into deliberations in the patent phase of the Oracle v. Google lawsuit, the 10-person jury seems to be mired in technical aspects of the patent dispute, prompting a mild complaint directed at the lawyers … Continue reading →

Specifically, the ruling held that “A patent, for example, could not simply recite a law of nature and then add the instruction ‘apply the law.’” Many people expected the Supreme Court to use this ruling to get CAFC to reconsider … Continue reading →

The International Trade Commission has found that an image-previewing patent that Kodak is trying to assert against Apple and Research in Motion is invalid. According to Kodak, the Administrative Law Judge’s (ALJ) initial determination found that the …

To be clear, the documents do not anywhere mention Yahoo by name. They have been filed by Gregory Hunt, from the law firm Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor and Hunt. One patent lawyer tells me that typically these requests are made by companies … Continue reading →

But patent law is metastasizing so quickly in the software space that it was only a matter of time before it spread to something like Oklahoma State University’s effort to patent a steak. That sounds ridiculous, mostly because it’s ridiculous … Continue reading →

according to the Patentlyo patent law blog. E-retailers and others defending against patent infringement claims gained new rights to move cases closer to home in a patent reform law called the America Invents Act, which President Obama signed in September.

Landslide Magazine (a publication of the American Bar Association), Vol. 3, No. 1, Sept/Oct 2010); Barton F. Showalter, Strategic Use of Reexamination in (and To Avoid) Litigation, 12th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute, October 24-26, 2007

Also, this patent further strengthens our overall IP portfolio for … future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

a law professor at Santa Clara University who has made a study of the market for technology patents. Microsoft, Ericsson and EMC declined to comment for this story. The other Rockstar owners didn’t respond to messages. To say that technology … Continue reading →