Intellectual Property
The Business Court has been tough on plaintiffs making trade secrets claims, including a recent case wherein “customer lists, pricing information, transaction histories, key contacts, and customer leads” were deemed insufficiently detailed to be counted as trade secrets.
The truth is that patent trolls have been around since the advent of the patent system in the U.S., says Jason Schwent with Thompson Coburn LLP, and that longevity has much to do with the legitimate purposes they can serve and the positive role they can play.
Many types of manufacturing and distribution will soon be “democratized” through 3D printing, not unlike the way the music industry […]
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Commil v. Cisco, a case that will consider whether a good faith belief […]
Two unencrypted backup tapes went missing from TD Bank in 2012, a data breach that affected 260,000 people, including 90,000 […]
On December 5, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its first post-Alice opinion upholding the validity of computer-implemented business method claims…
The first step may just be to give the employee a company phone, suggest Fredrikson & Byron attorneys, writing on […]
The USPTO’s decision to revoke trademark registrations for the NFL’s Washington Redskins has led to a rash of misinformed reporting in the media. Deborah Peckham of Burns & Levinson LLP seeks to set the record straight.
Just because a patent claim fails the “pen and paper” test, Judge Mariana Pfaelzer said courts should ask “whether the formula in [the claim] constitutes an inventive concept” that may lead to a novel solution.
The Federal Circuit finally acceded to what now appears to be the prevailing Supreme Court position and accepted the idea that an “abstract” patent is…
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