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Growing your patent portfolio to take advantage of the America Invents Act, confronting the top ten myths about post-grant trials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and addressing “the rise and wrath of design patents.”

Gaming Firm Files Copyright Infringement Suit Against Authors Of Popular Hack

Gaming company Blizzard Entertainment is taking a stand against programmers who create and sell cheats that provide a competitive advantage […]

Contractor Gets Away With Trade Secrets

A Massachusetts court has ruled that a contractor that did not sign – and was not asked to sign – […]

House Intelligence Chairman: U.S. Will “Lose” Unless It Follows Up On Chinese IP Hackers

The Justice Department’s indictment this week of five hackers from the Chinese military is “an important shot across the bow” […]

‘Matrix’ Did Not Infringe Upon Revenant Nazis, Court Finds

California judge Gary Klausner ruled that the Warner Bros.’ Matrix Trilogy did not plagiarize a screen play for a film […]

Following His Letter To Lincoln, Kappos Defends U.S. Patent System

Tired of seeing the U.S. patent system being used as a punching bag, David Kappos, former director of the U.S. […]

Hold On A Minute, Comrade

An internet archive of radical writings was sued by Lawrence & Wishart, a small, leftist publisher, which asserted copyright ownership […]

Claim That USPTO, Hostile To Patents, Keeps Moving Goal Posts

A critic says the protocol at the U.S. Patent Office is contributing to the country’s stagnating economic recovery and badly needs reform.

Class Action Claims Google Has Monopolized Internet Searches

A Seattle law firm has filed an antitrust class action against Google, claiming the tech giant “illegally monopolized, and financially […]

Samsung To Appeal $119M Patent Ruling In Apple Case

Though its latest patent battle with Apple ended with Samsung on the hook for a fraction of what Apple asked […]

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