Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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In Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. [14-1538] (February 22, 2017), the Supreme Court reversed a Federal Circuit decision that supplying a single component of a multi-component invention from the United States is an infringing act under Patent Act…
In Secure Access, LLC v. PNC BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, [2016-1353] (February 21, 2017), the Federal Circuit vacated the Board’s decision in CBM2014-00100 on the ground that U.S. Patent No. 7,631,191 on a "system and method for authenticating a…
Written by Hyeongsu Rick Park and Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) terminated a patent interference proceeding between the University of California (UC) and the Broad Institute (Broad), a joint venture of Harvard University…
On Wed., February 8, 2017, IPO released the report of its legislation task force. Unlike the hundreds of academic analyses of the legislative history of s. 101 – and this report includes another – the Task Force took the further necessary and…
An Internet search using the term "provisional patent application" will bury you in ads by companies offering inventors a low-cost entry ticket to the U.S. patent system. I'm concerned, but not surprised. The U.S. provisional patent…
By Christopher Hall Here is a technique for rapidly drafting claims, for a patent application. This is a brainstorming mechanism that works for one person, or two, or more, and uses a free-form drawing or diagram to both gather words and prompt writing.…
The doctrine of definiteness requires a patent to clearly state what the inventor considers to be their invention. Of course, the PTAB interprets various claim terms when determining whether a prior art reference anticipates or renders obvious a particular…
Before returning to private practice, I practiced patent law in-house at two companies: first at a battery company, and then at an oil company. I’ve sat through my share of invention disclosure committee meetings. This article is intended to help…
Patent attorneys are often asked the question: “Is my idea patentable?” Often the idea is related to software or business methods. Well-known business methods include Amazon’s “1-click shopping” and Priceline’s…
As if Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook don’t have enough problems, Facebook’s being sued. The patent infringement suit filed by Software Rights Archives LLC (SRA) puts Facebook among the ranks of Twitter, Google, Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft as a…
Intellectual Ventures (IV), an invention and investment company founded by the former Chief Strategist and Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold, today filed a patent infringement complaint against Nikon in the U.S. District Court of…
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In this day and age, the growing trend towards technology seems to be an undeniable recognition amongst the intelligent collective that something curiously interesting is happening, and furthermore, that there is something rather enticing surrounding it.…
