Intellectual Property
Ellen Chen Yeh admitted downloading Texas Instruments proprietary information before leaving the company for a China-based semiconductor manufacturer, but was recently acquitted on all counts. What companies can take away about the trickiness of proving intent beyond a reasonable doubt.
Protecting domain names under the expanded gTLD landscape may be costly and, in the end, ineffective. But Fenwick & West LLP attorneys say that companies taking the longer view can count on mobile eclipsing web domains in the not-so-distant future anyway.
U.S. firms are making ever more expansive claims to their employees’ intellectual work – in some cases demanding employees pre-assign […]
The term “troll” has never been defined as it relates to patent litigation, yet it is routinely employed by courts […]
Since former President George W. Bush opened an exhibit of artwork featuring world leaders he knew during his tenure in […]
In what’s described as an effort to bring “transparency to the monetization market” and what some will no doubt call […]
The effort to curb non-practicing entities takes place within a statutory framework that grants inventors the right to transfer a […]
Weeks of negotiation over a bipartisan patent bill meant to curb the negative impacts of “patent assertion firms,” or trolls, […]
The process described in the patent, Justice Breyer seemed to suggest, was more or less the same one his mother used when she rode herd on his checkbook.
Defensive disclosure, an IP strategy to preempt other parties from getting a patent in the future, is growing in competitive fields, though it can be something of a double-edged sword.
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