Intellectual Property

Variety Of Bills To Target Patent Abuse On The Table

Fee-shifting and more disclosure by the plaintiff at initial filing are among the provisions under consideration.

A practitioner takes a close look at CLS Bank v. Alice Corporation and computer-process patent law.

An IP practitioner maintains it could overturn 30 years of patent policy.

Average: Months instead of years.

As the U.S. economy has become more patent-intensive, non-practicing entities (NPEs), business entities that do…

Most companies understand the value of applying for patents on inventions before launching a product. But…

In Canada, parody and satire were given statutory protection in 2012 by way of amendment to the Copyright Act. But […]

Theft of trade secrets and other business critical information by employees and other insiders is increasing at alarming rates and […]

The problems are real, but maybe they are problems with the patent system itself.

An opinion by Judge James Robart in Washington state constitutes a long overdue clarification…