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First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Legal Research Services…
On the lighter side—and at the risk of delving a bit too close to inside jokes for IP lawyers—we found amusing the following press release from Thomson Reuters, regarding its flagship online legal...
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Gunned Down By the Supremes
The Supreme Court has issued another patent–related opinion, which causes all patent–related lawyers to prick up their ears… In Gunn v. Minton, the issue on appeal was whether a patent litigation...
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Live by the Sword; Die by the SHIELD
(Which sounds like it should be the title of an old He-Man episode from the 1980s, but is not nearly as exciting). We’ve spoken before about the Saving High–Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal...
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Divided We Fall…
Just a short follow up on a head–scratching topic oft on the Federal Circuit’s radar as of late: joint or divided infringement. As alert readers may recall, in Akamai, the Federal Circuit concluded...
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Presidential Patents
CBS ran a news clip yesterday, regarding the anniversary of Honest Abe’s patent, filed March 10, 1849. The patent, for “buoying vessels over shoals,” was issued two years later, as Patent No. 6469 in...
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Fleshing Out the Form Complaint
A short note on a short order that would likely pass without comment—if it weren’t from the Eastern District of Texas. The order—with a mere two paragraphs of analysis—finds Plaintiff’s patent...
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An Admirable Defense
Not to be outdone by Microsoft’s transparency, Google recently announced that its Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge as follows: “We pledge not to sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source...
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The GeoTag Show
Your bloggers are at the 28th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference in Arlington, Virginia, and so have not been as garrulous as usual. However, we wanted to take a brief moment to recognize an...
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The Troll Sleeps Tonight
In the matter of Masimo Corporation v. Philips Electronics (pending in the District of Delaware), the Magistrate Judge Thynge recently issued a 200–page report and recommendation on 15 separate...
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The ABCs of the ITC
The International Trade Commission (“ITC“) has become an increasing arena of interest lately in intellectual property disputes, as filing trends are on the rise. While still fairly few and far between,...
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Sticks and Stones
Just a hat tip to our friends at Docket Navigator, for providing a copy of an order denying a motion to strike the term “patent troll” from a declaratory judgment action filed in the Southern District...
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The Next Front
As our trusty readers are aware, there’s nothing we in Blogville get more excited about than patent–reform legislation (unless it is patent–related court decisions, patent–related press, or really just...
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And The Survey Says…
We’re avid followers of the work of Assistant Professor Colleen Chien (Santa Clara University Law School) when it comes to patent trolls / “patent assertion entities” (PAE). And so, we were...
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How Low Can You Go?
There are no shortage of lawyer jokes, and those of us with “esquire” attached to our name should probably hesitate before adding fuel to the fire. But two recent news stories relating to attorney...
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Patent Ban Down Under?
New Zealand’s Commerce Minister has released a supplemental order paper clarifying the government’s position that software patenting shouldn’t be allowed within the country. The paper – which affects...
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Alice’s End
In a badly fractured en banc decision, the Federal Circuit in CLS Bank v. Alice Corp. affirmed the lower court’s holding that Alice’s claims to a computerized method, a computer-readable medium...
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Back In The Saddle Again
We’ve mentioned Alcatel–Lucent before. We’ve certainly mentioned Newegg a time or two. And so, it is worth mentioning that Newegg has successfully battled another patent infringement claim all the way...
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A Licensee By Any Other Name
Following up on our prior post about the hubbub - whether exaggerated or true to form – of the ITC being the latest hotspot for patent trolls, submitted for your approval is an interesting decision...
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An Encouraging Step By The ITC
We’ve spoken before about the ITC’s proposed discovery rules – and why limitations on discovery nearly always translate into limitations on otherwise out-of-control litigation costs. Thanks to ITC...
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The Limits of Knowledge
In a unanimous opinion issued the other day, the Supreme Court concluded that isolated DNA is not patentable subject matter, and cDNA (certain synthetic versions of DNA) are patentable. Not...
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