Liability and damages are separate legal questions, but too often only lip service is paid to that distinction, which leads to a sequencing error that can be ...
“Here, [the Book of Wisdom doctrine] was ‘used to impute knowledge of later-occurring events affecting the value of the license that were unforeseeable at the time of negotiating.'” – Federal Circuit ...
“Golf clubs sit among the most heavily patented consumer goods categories in the world…. When an automaker enters this category, it isn’t entering a green field.” When the world’s best golfers descend ...
“[E]ven if the court had agreed to correct the alleged typo…[it] could simply have applied the reasoning of Ruschig and found that the original filing provided no ‘blaze marks’ for the proposed ...
The mythology surrounding the act of invention tends to concentrate on the breakthrough moment. There is a flash of insight, a sketch is made on a cocktail napkin, the prototype is assembled in a ...
“The USPTO has let the regime invoke its own misconduct as an excuse for nonuse, rather than treating that misconduct as the disqualifying fact it should be.” On December 31, 1959, Calixto Lopez led ...
“We…reject Woodway’s attempt to recast a factual dispute as a claim construction issue to obtain de novo review.” On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...
“Since the claims contained no requirement to reference the heater arrays, the CAFC agreed with the PTAB that ‘proximity is measured along the trace relative to the bondpad.’” The U.S. Court of ...
“Chinese multinationals and the Chinese Academy of Sciences claim four of the top five spots among generative AI patenting entities, [though] the top spot belongs to Japanese technology conglomerate ...
“I know from the perspective of industries that are comfortable with the status quo that change is concerning, but I believe that there are several innovations that will not come to be in this ...