The Court that couldn't shoot straight
Is claim construction an issue of law to be decided de novo on appeal, or are there relevant issues of fact, justifying that deference be given to the decisions and opinions of trial courts? The CAFC...
View ArticleThe shell game of Intellectual Ventures and a $10000 marketing report
Is Intellectual Ventures (IV) really the ‘King of Patent Trolls’? If so, the company has done its best to earn the title. Objectively speaking, the research credentials of founder Nathan Myhrvold are...
View ArticleDoes Apple own every smartphone?
Apple spent a lot of 2011 in court (either directly, or in disguise), attempting to keep competitors’ smartphones and tablets off the market. If patent #8,082,523 is any indication, 2012 will be even...
View ArticleHigh-Tech Nova Weekly: Top five trends for 2/20-2/24
Let's take a look at what high-tech innovation trends shaped the industry this week! Unauthorized User Tracking While we've all grown essentially numb to the constant use of our own personal data for...
View ArticleYahoo: A patent jackal covets the Facebook IPO lion's share
Engulfed in the bidding frenzy of its upcoming $5 billion IPO, the last thing Facebook needed to hear was what Yahoo had to say to them this past Monday: if Facebook does not agree to pay licensing...
View ArticleHigh-Tech Nova Weekly: Top five trends for 4/2-4/6
Here's this week's high-tech trends that either made headlines or went under the radar! Facebook countersuit seizes the Yahoo gauntlet and backhands the patent troll What began as the threat of a...
View ArticleTrolls, lawsuits and higher costs: How mega patent deals affect businesses...
In mythology, trolls are often portrayed as large brutes with little creativity and even worse manners who enjoy devouring innocent people. In stories and songs alike, they are often found hiding...
View ArticleWeb-based restaurant system makes a patent troll hungry for Groupon
Groupon has grown successfully due to its ability to help city-dwellers explore local dining hotspots, discover various entertainment activities and purchase products they may not have previously...
View ArticleNokia Lawsuits and the Fall of RIM
"But in the decline of the empire, when every principle of health and life had been exhausted, the tardy application of this partial remedy was incapable of producing any important or salutary...
View ArticleITC: The New Venue of Choice for Patent Litigation?
Question: what parts of the US government are most concerned with patents? Easy answer: the USPTO. Extra credit if you named the Federal District Courts, the venue for patent disputes. In the past,...
View ArticleApp Product Authorization
Ric Richardson virtually established the now-familiar product authentication method, the "try and buy" approach seen on everything from magazine distribution to shareware to Microsoft products. The...
View ArticleSoftware patents: more a matter of time
As if Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook don’t have enough problems, Facebook’s being sued. The patent infringement suit filed by Software Rights Archives LLC (SRA) puts Facebook among the ranks of Twitter,...
View ArticleAmazon's winding course through the patent jungle
The tech IP vultures that circled around Nortel's demise reaped a hefty reward of patents, but at the cost of sharing the $4.5 billion patent windfall. Apple took the lion's share, but EMC, Ericsson,...
View ArticleMEMS gyroscopes undergo rite of passage
Microelectromechanical system gyroscopes may be small in stature, but a patent infringement claim against MEMS upstart InvenSense in the California Northern District Court illustrates just how big the...
View ArticleGeneric drug lawsuits -- good business practice or unfair monopoly?
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., manufacturers of the Ortho Tri-Cyclen birth control drug, are filing an injunction against Glenmark Generics, Ltd., an Indian-based generic drug manufacturer that...
View ArticleApple beats down walls leading to Google
Apple’s victory over Samsung smells different than most patent infringement cases marauding our courts. This wasn’t some picayune money grab by an NPE. And unlike Nokia, Apple doesn’t have to woo...
View ArticlePatent Knowledge: Prior art and patentability
Patents exist to promote innovation. By granting a federally recognized documents to inventors with a new idea, the government is able to make these ideas public while at the same time protecting the...
View ArticleProblems at the USPTO: Introduction (Part 1 of 4)
This article is the first of a four-part series examining the USPTO’s role in administering the patent system. Other articles in this series: Part II: Human Resources. Part III: Databases. Part IV:...
View ArticleCorporate patent litigation
Whenever it comes time to scapegoat someone in the IP world, “patent troll” is the pejorative of choice. Even in polite company, “non-practicing entities” (NPEs) are seldom held in favorable light....
View Article2012 in IP
Undoubtedly, 2012 was a big year for the intellectual property world. Significant developments not only in the United States at the USPTO but around the world will mean a very different landscape in...
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