In the latest episode of the Knobbe IP+ podcast, Knobbe Martens partner Mauricio Uribe speaks with Shea Broussard, Oliver Curtis, and Jim Kniss, the team behind FlameMapper, an AI-based solution for mitigating wildfire risk....more
In this episode of the Knobbe IP+ podcast, Knobbe Martens partner Mauricio Uribe speaks with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Legal Officer Oscar Alberto Suárez Bohorquez on the recently announced WIPO...more
In this episode of the Knobbe IP+ podcast, Knobbe Martens partner Mauricio A. Uribe speaks with European Patent Attorney and Ph. D. Hanane Fathi Roswall on the recently adopted EU AI Act. Similar to the EU GDPR, the EU AI Act...more
In this episode of the Knobbe IP+ podcast, Knobbe Martens partner Mauricio A. Uribe speaks with author, technology disruptor, strategist and CEO Linda Bernardi on the role of patent strategies in VC funding opportunities and...more
3/12/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Capital Raising ,
Innovative Technology ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Investors ,
IP License ,
Machine Learning ,
Popular ,
Startups ,
Technology Sector ,
Venture Capital ,
Venture Funding
Partner Mauricio Uribe hosted a webinar presenting, "Trends and Changes in View of the USPTO's Updated Revised Guidance."
Topics Include:
• Summary of the October 2019 Update to the Revised Guidance
•...more
11/11/2019
/ Abstract Ideas ,
Best Practices ,
Bilski ,
Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Standard ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Defense Strategies ,
Guidance Update ,
Judicial Exception ,
Life Sciences ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Mayo v. Prometheus ,
Patent Applications ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Section 101 ,
Software ,
Technology Sector ,
Treatment Method Patents ,
USPTO
On Monday, January 7, 2019, a revised guidance for subject matter eligibility (USPTO Section 101 Revised Guidance) will take effect at the USPTO. With the newly revised guidance, the USPTO aims to clarify and standardize the...more
1/8/2019
/ Abstract Ideas ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Judicial Exception ,
Mayo v. Prometheus ,
New Guidance ,
Patent Examinations ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Product of Nature Doctrine ,
Section 101 ,
USPTO
Patent eligibility challenges under 35 U.S.C. §101 have been effective tools for defendants to obtain early dismissal of a case without extensive fact finding since the Supreme Court ruling in Alice. Whether a claim recites...more
12/6/2018
/ Abstract Ideas ,
Appeals ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Federal Rule 12(b)(6) ,
Genuine Issue of Material Fact ,
Inventions ,
Motion for Summary Judgment ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Section 101 ,
Section 112 ,
Vacated
In BSG Tech LLC v. BuySeasons, Inc., the Federal Circuit held that a patent claim is ineligible under § 101 when its only allegedly unconventional feature is an abstract idea. The Federal Circuit affirmed the judgment of the...more
On Tuesday, May 30, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. that an authorized sale of a patented product exhausts all of the patentee’s rights in the...more
6/1/2017
/ Exports ,
Foreign Sales ,
Imports ,
Impression Products v Lexmark International ,
IP License ,
Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons ,
Patent Exhaustion ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Resales Agreements ,
SCOTUS ,
Single-Use/No Resale Restriction ,
Stream of Commerce
1.Considering Your IP Counsel as a Partner -
Companies maximize the value of their IP counsel when both the company and IP counsel view their relationship as a partnership. More specifically, look for IP counsel that...more
On May 11, 2016, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) into law. The DTSA is an expansion of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 and generally authorizes a civil action in federal court for the...more
Throughout U.S. patent law jurisprudence, a select number of cases have made significant changes to fundamental aspects of the process of patent litigation. Such milestone cases often eclipse the more specific details of the...more