Patent Law

While Congress passed patent reform legislation last year that was intended to mitigate the patent troll problem, the new law largely affects only newly granted patents. In the meantime, there has been an uptick of troll suits as billionaire …

In this guest post in the Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks” blog, Brook Baker of the Northeastern University School of Law Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, “describe[s] and comment[s] on pharmaceutical company …

Law360, New York (February 29, 2012, 2:03 PM ET) — Despite the challenging market, recent years have been strong for clean technology and numerous innovation milestones were achieved with both an increase in investment and patent activity. Our analysis …

Pharmaceutical company Novartis “has spoken out following criticism about its challenge to India’s patent laws, insisting that access to life-saving drugs is not under peril by the move,” Pharma Times World News reports. The case, which the …

Yahoo’s reportedly threatening to take legal action unless Facebook starts paying patent licensing fees for several different technologies. According to the New York Times, the patents – up to 20 of them – cover aspects of advertising …

Over the course of 2012, the patent law landscape for life science companies in Australia has the potential to change quite significantly, with a number of major legislative amendments to come before Federal Parliament during this period. We discuss the … Continue reading →

Patent hoarder Core Wireless Licensing has filed suit against Apple Inc. in the Eastern District of Texas, claiming the iPad and iPhone infringe eight U.S. patents it owns related to fundamental cellular technology. Core Wireless is seeking …

Law360, New York (February 28, 2012, 5:21 PM ET) — A trial on the validity of the University of Pittsburgh’s patent covering a radiation device for cancer treatment will go forward, a Pennsylvania federal judge said Tuesday, following a $37 … Continue reading →

Patent law is a notoriously dry subject, and it’s almost never the subject of debate in presidential campaigns. One patent holder has found an ingenious method for raising the profile of the issue: he sued Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and … Continue reading →

If patents are actually infringed on, then Yahoo! has a right to enforce those patents or seek licensing at any time. This is the law. The law is not subject to PR, insofar as we are a nation of laws … Continue reading →