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That a tech giant would copy the intellectual property of a smaller, less powerful firm is hardly surprising—in fact, it happens all the time.

Press release content from KISSPR. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. IP Law and Your Protection Strategy: Ongoing Evolution Is Essential from Martensen IP July 8, 2021 GMT 07/08/2021, Colorado Springs // KISSPR // You have to know the rules to win the game, especially when the rules change… often. In 2013, the movie Captain Philips told the true story of the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama. In April 2009, the Maersk Alabama cargo ship was attacked and captured by four Somal...

It felt sometimes like the PTAB was making it up as they went along, said Gene Quinn, founder and CEO of IPWatchdog, in an interview with former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu regarding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Ending a struggle between two tech titans stretching over more than a decade, the Supreme Court held in a 6-2 opinion that Google’s copying of key portions of the Application Programming Interface (API) of Oracle’s Java SE software, constituting 11,500 lines of computer code, was fair use. In determining that Google’s copying of the API constituted fair use, the Court, on April 5, reversed a 2018 Federal Circuit decision that he...

It is foolhardy to speculate on why the Court asked these views, except noting that a sufficient number of the Justices felt it would be beneficial to their deliberations (regarding whether to grant certiorari) to hear what the Government has to say, in view of the Executives role in granting patents.  However, it is evidence that there are several consequences of this decision that should be borne in mind. The most immediate consequence is that it gives the Biden administration a chance to p...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) rejecting claims for failure to satisfy the subject matter eligibility standard under 35 U.S.C. § 101, in ex parte examination of claims to methods and related computing systems for genetic haplotyping in In re Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. The claimed method is recited in representative...

Limiting patents granted to drug makers, often proposed as a way to lower drug prices, is not a panacea for achiving that goal

Last week, Senator Tillis latest literary foray took the form of a letter to the Hon. Drew Hirschfeld, current Commissioner of Patents and Acting Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  In it, the Senator asks the USPTO to "publish a request for information on the current state of patent eligibility jurisprudence in the United States, evaluate the responses, and provide us with a detailed summary of your finding, particularly with regard to "how the current jurisprudence has adverse...

Chinese diagnostics firm WuXi Diagnostics raises $150m in Series B round WuXi Diagnostics has developed a series of COVID-19 detection products. Source: WuXi Diagnostics February 24, 2021 Chinese integrated diagnostics developer WuXi Diagnostics has raised $150 million in a Series B round of financing to advance its R&D pipeline and open-access innovation enabling platform, as the firm seeks to accelerate its market penetration in the global diagnostics sector. The Series B round was backed by ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. If you are new to the field of Intellectual Property, you may need help understanding the thickets of jargon in legal documents and formal conversations. Here is a sampling of some of the most important terms you will encounter (and a few that are too intriguing not to mention). In addition, we have put together a comprehensive glossary that can help you further broaden the knowledge of this ...