Insights

Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.

Tagged reverse engineering · clear

Is Reverse Engineering a Misappropriation of Trade Secrets?

Back in 2021, a Stanford University team of scientists made headlines as they managed to reverse engineer the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from just drops in discarded vials. The team determined the sequence of the mRNA for the vaccine and later posted it on…

May 29, 2022Copyright & Trade Secrets1 min read

Supreme Court

Blindness equals knowledge?

Does a party who ‘actively induces infringement of a patent’ under 35 U.S.C. §271(b) have to know as a fact that the actions in question support patent infringement? The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in 2010 to Global-Tech…

November 7, 2011Supreme Court3 min read