The tenuous nature of an exclusive licensee’s standing to enforce a patent was something I learned early in my legal career, when I was a judicial clerk at the Federal Circuit. In Alps South LLC v. Ohio Willow Wood Co., the...more
In Buckhorn Inc. v. Orbis Corp., the Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s refusal to enforce the fee-shifting terms of a licence and settlement agreement. The district court found that the terms did not apply because...more
Last year, on November 23, 2011, the USPTO announced that it was considering collecting information on patent ownership and requiring disclosure of patent ownership information throughout the patent application process....more