The Wait Is Over! #NotThatExciting
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit announced that the principles of prosecution history estoppel apply to design patents. While this may not come as a surprise to many,...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Deals Major Blow to Patent Trolls
Today, the United States Supreme Court made it easier for courts to require patent trolls to pay for frivolous litigation by softening Federal Circuit standards that were too restrictive. In two...
View ArticleYou Are Invited: Trademark and Patent Enforcement in China: Recent...
Intellectual property enforcement in China has taken on increasing importance in recent years, and a new trademark law in China takes effect on May 1, 2014. Join this session at Chadbourne & Parke...
View ArticleOklahoma Joins the Patent Troll Hunt
The drumbeat against patent trolls is growing louder. Bipartisan cooperation seems like a relic these days, but both parties, at the federal and state levels, seem to agree on at least one thing—it’s...
View ArticleJudge Robinson’s “Limited Prosecution Bar”: The New Normal?
Patent attorneys play many roles in the life of their clients’ patents, from drafting and prosecuting patent applications before the Patent Office, to defending the validity of granted patents before...
View ArticleMeal Planning Patent Invalidated Under Supreme Court’s Alice Corp Decision
In one of the first decisions applying the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Internt’l, 573 U.S. __ (2014) (which held that basic business methods may not be patented,...
View Article*Can* You Monopolize a Coffee Cartridge Market?
Introduction If you read our recent article discussing the allegations of monopolization in the replacement k-cup market, you may have detected a certain measure of skepticism about the antitrust...
View ArticleSoftware Patents: What Software is Eligible for a Patent?
Note: This blog is largely for our friends in the legal community. Increasingly, the court system is opposed to enforcing patents where the subject of the patent is an abstract idea. This has led to...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Standard of Review for Appeal of Patent Claim...
In a 7-2 decision handed down on January 20th, the U.S. Supreme Court held that while the ultimate determination of what a patent claim means is still a question of law subject to de novo review at the...
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