Intellectual Property
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.
Since inter partes reviews were introduced for patent challenges in 2012, they’ve taken off in popularity, breaking the 1000th-filing barrier in early April.
“I want to respect your copyright but I also want some music on my cat video,” is how Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) summed up discussion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s infringement notice and takedown procedures in a House Judiciary Committee hearing late last month.
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