Intellectual Property
Managing intellectual capital, in tandem with more traditional IP assets like patents and copyrights, is an often overlooked aspect of business strategy for in-house teams, Winstead PC attorney Robert Shaddox says. He includes steps to better understand intellectual capital, and turning that knowledge into value.
Though the Senate Judiciary Committee temporarily tabled a patent bill this week, several members indicated they are optimistic that legislation is possible this year.
There’s no question that comics steal jokes from one another, but a scholarly review found not a single copyright case […]
A trade group that is said to represent 90 percent of the venture capital under management in the United States […]
Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case whose outcome will shape the future of some of the […]
A survey finds that businesses world-wide are increasingly turning away from cloud computing and looking to more secure data storage, […]
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has not determined whether it will rehear a controversial copyright ruling issued last month […]
This case is a study in the boundaries of patents in fields of rapidly progressing technologies, where the landscape looks entirely different toward the end of the patent term than it did at the time of the patent’s issuance.
In interim rules released this month, the USPTO eased formal requirements for obtaining Track I prioritized examination of a new application.
In a guidance memo to examiners on subject matter eligibility, the USPTO clarified that apparent products of nature must be “significantly different” than something naturally occurring to be eligible.
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