President Biden issued an Executive Order on October 30, 2023 designed to place the United States at the forefront of law and regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Executive Order on the “Safe, Secure, and...more
The Federal Circuit recently in In re Cellect, invalidated a series of patents based on obviousness-type double-patenting (ODP), finding that term-adjusted patents (PTA) in the same family are invalid under ODP in the absence...more
The decade-old battle between two technology powerhouses—Google and Oracle—potentially reshaping the future of software will now continue into the Supreme Court’s next term. Referred to in the media as the copyright lawsuit...more
7/2/2020
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Certiorari ,
Computer Programmers ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Eligible Subject Matter ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Fair Use ,
Java ,
Jury Verdicts ,
Motion to Set Aside the Verdict ,
Oracle v Google ,
Popular ,
Software ,
Software Developers ,
Split of Authority
I. What is Brexit?
Brexit (short for “British exit”) is the United Kingdom’s (the “UK”—England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) decision to leave the European Union (the “EU”—28 countries, including the UK). The UK...more
3/6/2019
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Design Registration ,
EU ,
European Economic Area (EEA) ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Member State ,
Patents ,
Referendums ,
Trademarks ,
UK ,
UK Brexit ,
Withdrawal Agreement
In 2014, the United States Supreme Court in a landmark decision in the field of Patent Law (Alice Corp. v. CLS Int’l) invalidated software patents related to mitigating settlement risk. Relying on the now-infamous Section...more
4/25/2018
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Claim Construction ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Complaint Procedures ,
Covered Business Method Patents ,
Federal Rule 12(b)(6) ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Patent Applications ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
SCOTUS ,
Section 101 ,
Section 102 ,
Section 103 ,
Software Patents ,
USPTO
The United States Supreme Court in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., held that patent owner’s decision to sell a product exhausts all of its patent rights in that item, regardless of any restrictions...more
6/1/2017
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Exports ,
Foreign Sales ,
Impression Products v Lexmark International ,
IP License ,
Patent Exhaustion ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patents ,
Resales Agreements ,
SCOTUS ,
Single-Use/No Resale Restriction