Patent Law

Sounds like a pretty straightforward case. If they’ve got the patents, it’s open and shut. Ha! Good one. New to patent law, are you? Variants on this basic argument, and extensions and offshoots of it, have been whirling around the … Continue reading →

design patent infringement and violation of antitrust law. When the trial, which is sure to be one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched, gets under way, there’s little doubt that Verhoeven, 49, will be in the spotlight. The head of … Continue reading →

“It’s never good when the judge decides you’ve withheld or destroyed evidence,” said R. Polk Wagner, a professor of patent law at the University of Pennsylvania. Florian Mueller, a consultant who blogs on patent issues in the tech sector said … Continue reading →

The lawyers on both sides are well known: Apple is represented by law firm Morrison & Foerster, which led Oracle Corp’s patent case against Google Inc earlier this year over the Android operating system. Samsung, whose products run on Android … Continue reading →

Apple and Microsoft could once again join forces to bid on a collection of patents from a beleaguered technology giant, says a new report. According to The Wall Street Journal, the two companies — along with Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures … Continue reading →

Just days after Kodak lost a landmark suit against Apple and Rim, a machine learning technology that took Stanford researchers six years to develop, will bring Big Data to one of the most complex and convoluted areas of the law. Lex … Continue reading →

Let’s not forget that, with the possible exception of Admiralty, Patent Law has long been the only recognized specialty in the U.S. legal system. I would submit that this is no accident.  Patent law requires an understanding of the law and …

Yet, the EPC leaves infringement law and proceedings predominantly to its member states. In practice this means that a patent may be infringed in one jurisdiction by for example selling an infringing device whereas it may be held not infringed … Continue reading →

Baker said the need to address the link between patent law, pricing, and access was especially urgent in middle-income countries such as China, India, Brazil, and South Africa, which have 25 percent, or eight million, of all HIV-positive people.

Mark Webbink, a visiting professor of law at Duke University, executive director of the Center for Patent Innovations at New York Law School and former Red Hat agreed. “I don’t think this is the first MS patent licensing deal covering … Continue reading →